The farm fresh radish that I got from the villages tempted us to try a new recipe - Mooli Ka Paratha - the Indian flat bread with radish as stuff. I am not sure, if you have heard about it or not, but its quite a famous recipe in north sides of India ( New Delhi and all). Usually, most of the places, you get potato as stuffed called Aloo ka partha, which the kids always like. We tried this first time at home, and it was very tasty - more importantly kids also liked it very much.
The process is not very difficult - you only need to make sure, you get fresh radish - its very important to get them fresh for better taste. We prepare the cottage cheese every day at home - the water of that is very helpful to soften the dough. And more ever it has lot of proteins. So to prepare the dough, we add a little oil to wheat flour, salt to taste and then use the cottage cheese water.
Cover the dough with a cloth and leave it till you use.
Grate the radish, cut some fresh soft radish leaves as well and mix after cutting them - it adds the crispiness. Add crushed ginger, ajwain, Kashmir Mirch for color. Put salte, mix them well and leave it for 5-10 minutes. Ajwain brings a unique flavor and also helps in digestion. Even though people say, one should not eat radish if having gastritis, eating this is not going to cause any trouble. Instead it will help.
The salt helps to extract the juice - squeeze it by hand to extract all the juice.
Then fry it with little oil for 5 minutes, and add some coriander powder and the stuff is ready.
And then put the stuff and make paratha - quite simple, isn't it ?
I could never make a roti or paratha - not that simple, one needs that practice. Couple of times I tried, and it came like an India Map 😀. My wife added a nice curry with it, apart from sweet curd and salad, papad, and rice.
Nature always gives us different vegetables in different seasons and there is a purpose behind it. You can search for the health benefits of radish - it has power to heal even cancer, apart from various other benefits. So we must eat these seasonal vegetables when they are available.
And by the way, this was in lunch menu and the evening has gone nice as well.
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