Punjabi Mooli Paratha Recipe

Ingredients

1. 1 medium to large mooli/radish with or without leaves
2. 1 or 2 green chilies finely chopped
3. Red chilli powder/lal mirch powder as required
4. Garam masala powder (optional)
5. Whole wheat flour dough/atta
6. Ghee or oil for frying
7. White butter (to serve with the parathas)
8. Salt

Preparation Steps

1. Prepare the whole wheat dough and keep it aside.grate the mooli/radish and keep aside for 15-20 minutes and later squeeze the water from it
2. This is done so that the mooli parathas do not break while rolling the dough
3. This radish juice can be used to make the dough instead of water.add chopped green chilies to the grated mooli.now take two lemon sized ball from the dough and roll them into a small circle, about 5 to 6 cms on the rolling board dusted with wheat flour.take a good amount of the mooli/radish stuffing and place it on one of the rolled dough
4. Don't use too much stuffing as in that case the mooli parathas can break while rolling.sprinkle evenly one or two pinch of salt, red chilli powder and garam masala powder

5. Cover with the other rolled round and join the edges.in the meantime, heat the griddle or tava
6. Roll the dough into the size of a paratha or roti
7. Care should be taken while rolling the dough as the paratha may break.we have added salt to the mooli and thus as a result some juice will start oozing out from the mooli parathas
8. Its ok.fry the mooli paratha on a hot tava or griddle using ghee and oil
9. The mooli paratha should become golden and crisp from both sides.make sure that the paratha edges are fried well
10. You can use spatula to press them
11. Use liberal amount of ghee or oil to fry the parathas
12. Well fried paratha will have some brown spots and might puff up little.serve the mooli paratha hot with butter/makhan or curd or the pickle of your choice.