Mooli Paratha Recipe | Radish Paratha Recipe | How to make mooli paratha | Radish Stuffed Flatbread Recipe
Mooli Paratha Recipe is an Indian whole wheat flatbread stuffed with grated and spiced mooli/radish. Punjabi style Muli ka Paratha is a popular Punjabi Breakfast in North India.
Servings 10
Calories 156kcal
Ingredients
Mooli Paratha Recipe Ingredients:
Ingredients for Mooli Paratha Dough:
- 2 cups Whole Wheat Flour/Atta
- ½ tsp Salt
- 1½ cup Water for kneading the dough
Mooli / Radish stuffing Ingredients:
- 2 cups Radish / Muli (grated)
- 2 tsp Fresh Coriander (finely chopped)
- 1 tsp Green Chili (finely chopped)
- ½ tsp Ginger (grated)
- ½ tsp Salt
- 1 pinch Asafoetida / Hing
- ¼ tsp Red Chili Powder
- ¼ tsp Carom Seed / Ajwain
- ½ tsp Coriander Powder
- ½ tsp Garam Masala
- ½ tsp Amchur Powder / Dry Mango Powder
Ingredients for Roasting the Muli Paratha:
- ½ cup Oil or Ghee
- ½ cup Wheat Flour for dusting
Instructions
Mooli Paratha Dough Recipe:
- Firstly, take 2 cups whole wheat flour/atta along with ½ tsp salt (adjust as per your taste) in a big bowl.
- Additionally, add water gradually as required and bring the mixture together.
- Further, combine all the ingredients and Knead them into a smooth soft dough.
- Keep kneading this for about 5 minutes.
- Finally, cover and keep the muli paratha dough aside for 25-30 minutes.
Stuffing / filling recipe for punjabi mooli paratha:
- Firstly take 2 cups of grated radish/mooli.
- Now, squeeze the grated muli/radish in a markin cloth.
- After that, take the squeezed mooli into a mixing bowl.
- Additionally, add finely chopped fresh coriander, green chili, grated ginger, salt, asafoetida/hing, red chili powder, coriander powder, garam masala, carom seed /ajwain, and amchur powder.
- Now mix all the ingredients well.
- Check the taste and add more salt or any other spices as per your taste.
- Finally, Mooli stuffing or radish filling/stuffing is ready now.
Mooli / Radish Paratha Recipe:
- Firstly, pinch and make smalls ball from the dough.
- Take a dough ball and Flatten it and dust it with whole wheat flour/atta.
- Roll out in a circle of about 4 to 5 inches in diameter.
- Place a tablespoon of mooli stuffing or radish stuffing onto the flattened surface and press them with your fingers.
- After that, take the edge and start pleating as well as bringing the pleats to the center. Join the pleats together.
- The pleats must be joined well; otherwise, there will be gaps while rolling and the filling comes out.
- In case you do see the filling, then just take a small piece of dough and cover the gap.
- Dust some flour and start rolling the paratha.
- Roll this muli ka paratha to about the same size as that of a chapati or roti.
- Place the mooli stuffed paratha on a hot tawa or griddle.
- When one side has partially cooked, flip the paratha.
- Now partially cook this side too.
- Drizzle about 1 tsp of oil or clarified butter on the partly cooked part.
- Flip again and this time this side has to be cooked more than the previous side. You will see brown spots on the muli ke parathe.
- Spread some oil or clarified butter on this side too. A well-made and well-roasted paratha will puff up.
- Press it down with a spatula.
- Flip again once or twice till both sides of Mooli ka Paratha are cooked properly.
- You should see crisp brown spots on the radish stuffed paratha.
- Make all Muli Parathas this way and stack them up in a roti basket or casserole.
- Now your delicious and yummy Mooli Parathas are ready to be served.
- Finally, you can serve this tasty and crispy Muli ka Paratha with some extra butter, mix vegetable pickle, curd, and coriander chutney.