North Indian
Mooli Paratha (White Radish Stuffed Flatbread)
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Mooli Paratha (White Radish Stuffed Flatbread) is North Indian home cooking, eaten at breakfast. On the plate it is the dish at the centre. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.
Ingredients
The quantities follow this count.
How to cook it
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Knead the atta with 1/4 tsp of the salt and about 1 cup water into a soft dough, cover it and let it rest 15 minutes.
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Peel and grate the mooli, then squeeze it hard in your fists, a handful at a time, to press out the water. Mooli that is not squeezed leaks while you roll and tears the paratha.
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Mix the squeezed mooli with the finely chopped green chili, ginger, cilantro, ajwain, red chili powder and amchur. Add the rest of the salt only now, just before you stuff, because salt pulls more water out of the radish.
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Roll a ball of dough into a 5 inch round, put 2 tbsp of filling in the middle, gather the edges over it, pinch them shut and roll it out gently on a floured board to about 7 inches across.
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Cook it on a hot tawa for 1 minute, flip it, smear the top with ghee, flip again and press the edges until both sides are golden brown and crisp in spots, about 4 minutes in all. Repeat with the rest.
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Eat them hot off the tawa with a lump of white butter, a bowl of dahi or a little pickle.
Serve it with
A North Indian breakfast is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Mooli Paratha (White Radish Stuffed Flatbread), read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.
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The sharp little thing
Safe at your table
Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Mooli Paratha (White Radish Stuffed Flatbread) carries dairy and gluten. It is free of the remaining 8 allergens on that list.
| Allergen | In this dish | Cook this instead |
|---|---|---|
| Peanuts | No | |
| Tree nuts | No | |
| Dairy | Yes | Lauki Chana Dal (Bottle Gourd and Lentils) |
| Gluten | Yes | Lauki Chana Dal (Bottle Gourd and Lentils) |
| Shellfish | No | |
| Eggs | No | |
| Soy | No | |
| Fish | No | |
| Sesame | No | |
| Coconut | No |
These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.
What it brings to the plate
Estimated, per serving
- Calories
- 390 kcal
- Protein
- 10 g
- Carbs
- 59 g
- Fat
- 14 g
- Fiber
- 10 g
- Sugar
- 3 g
- Sodium
- 600 mg
- Saturated fat
- 8 g
Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.
When to cook it
Mooli Paratha (White Radish Stuffed Flatbread) takes about 45 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a fair bit of work. It is eaten at breakfast. It is at its best in winter, which is when what goes into it is worth buying.
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