Mooli Ka Paratha
Recipe type: Main
Cuisine: Indian
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Serves: 6 parathas
 
Ingredients
for the stuffing:
  • Radish, grated – 4 cups
  • Ajwain – ¼ tsp
  • Green chilli, finely chopped – 3 nos
  • Cilantro, finely chopped – 3 nos
  • Cumin powder – ½ tsp
  • Red chilli powder – ½ to ¾ tsp
  • Garama masala – ¼ tsp
  • Chat masala – ¼ tsp
  • Salt
for the dough
  • Wheat flour – 2 cups
  • Salt as required
  • Oil – 2 tsp
for raitha:
  • Grated persian cucumber, small – 1 no
  • Grated carrot, small – 1 no
  • Green chili, finely chopped – 1 no
  • Salt as required
  • Yogurt – ½ cup
  • Chat masala – a generous pinch
Instructions
  1. Grate the radish and transfer to a bowl. Set aside for 30 minutes and squeeze all the juice completely. Finely chop green chilli and cilantro.
  3. Add all the above ingredients to the grated radish and mix well. You can use this as a stuffing.
  5. Or saute them without squeezing the radish juice until raw smell disappears and all the water dries out and use that as a stuffing.
  7. Add oil, salt and squeezed radish juice with enough water (if needed) to the flour and make a dough. Leave it for 15 to 30 minutes.
  9. Divide the dough to equal sized balls.Heat the flat pan to make parathas.
  10. Dust a ball into the dry flour and roll them to circle. Repeat the same and make a equal sized circle.
  12. Place the stuffing in the middle of a rolled dough.
  14. Cover with the another rolled circle.
  16. Now carefully roll the paratha to desired size and repeat the same for the remaining dough.
  18. Cook the paratha on a hot tawa for couple of minutes on one side until brown spots appear.
  20. Flip the paratha, spread ghee on top of cooked side and cook for another couple of minutes until the dark spots appear on other side. Smear enough ghee if needed.
  22. Serve the hot moolika paratha with cucumber raitha and pickle. Enjoy! :)
To make cucumber raitha:
  1. Add little water and salt to the yogurt and mix well.
  2. Add the grated cucumber, carrot and green chilli. Mix well and sprinkle chat masala on top before serving.
Recipe by MyEdibleCravings at http://myediblecravings.com/mooli-ka-paratha/