Mooli ke Parathe

Flatbread stuffed with winter radish

  • Cooking time
    60 mins
  • Calories
    408
    kcal
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This is a recipe for yet another Punjabi classic—mooli ke parathe. It uses large, white winter radish, as well as fresh radish leaves in the paratha filling. With a 1:1 dough to filling ratio, this is a chunky, generous paratha—just one of which is enough to fuel you up for the day. These mooli ke parathe are hot off the skillet, topped with white butter, and alongside a raita, called "tadke wale dahi".

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Ingredients

Serves
2

For the dough

  • 120 g atta (whole-wheat flour)
  • 12 g maida (refined flour)
  • ½ tsp salt
  • ½ tsp ghee
  • 75 ml water

For the filling

  • 225 g radish (grated)
  • 75 g radish leaves (finely chopped)
  • 60 g onion (fine chopped)
  • 10 g ginger (finely chopped)
  • 4 g fresh red/green chillies (finely chopped)
  • 20 g coriander leaves (finely chopped)
  • 5 g total salt
  • 5 g coriander powder
  • 3 g ajwain (carom seeds)
  • 1 tsp pepper powder
  • oil/ghee/butter for frying
  • white butter for finishing

Method

  1. Knead a smooth, pliable dough using all the ingredients, and set it to rest and relax for 30 mins.
  2. Peel and grate radish, and finely chop the radish leaves. Add 2 g salt, mix well and set it aside to allow the moisture from the vegetables to release.
  3. Meanwhile, prep the other ingredients: finely chop onions, ginger, fresh red chillies and coriander leaves.
  4. The radish mixture will have released moisture by now, so squeeze out as much of the excess liquid as you possibly can.
  5. Mix together the squeezed radish, onions, ginger, chillies and coriander leaves, along with 3 g more salt, coriander powder, ajwain and pepper powder.
  6. Divide both the dough and filling in 100 g portions.
  7. Roll out the dough to 10-cm diameter. Thin out the edges using your thumb.
  8. Place the filling in the centre (you may have to squeeze out any additional liquid once again before adding the filling to the dough).
  9. Gather the sides and twitch to seal. Gently flatten the filled dough using cupped palms. Start rolling, gently once again, until the paratha is about 16 cm in diameter.
  10. Dry-toast the paratha on a hot skillet on both sides until cooked. Add ghee or any other fat of your choice, and fry the paratha until golden and crisp.
  11. Top with white butter and serve with plain yoghurt or Rahul's "tadke wale dahi".

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