Couple of days before, I posted in my FB page asking people to share some recipes that uses Radish & its Greens. Comments Poured immediately and i was so happy to see such responses and the variety of recipes shared. Now i have multiple recipes in my mind to jump into with Radish and its Greens. First time hearing some unique recipes with Radish Greens so surprised and grateful.
Though we all know that serving grated radish and its greens as a salad, is the healthiest way to consume, but still some of us, especially kids are not so fond of salad. So to make them eat these healthy greens and radish, we need to look some ways to make it much more appetizing and appealing to eat. Seeing the responses in FB makes me so eager to buy radish with greens and try at least 4-5 of those recipes. I have never tried Paruppu Usili with any greens. I also get to know that we can do Radish Green Chutney, Saag, Kadhi etc. To start with, I planned to do this yummy Mooli Thepla. I have done Methi Thepla, but this is the first time to make Mooli Thepla.
Healthy radish with mild spices in Indian bread served with plain curd or dal is a dainty dish. Most of us hate radish because of its smell. The moment we grate the radish, the whole home has the smell of the radish which many of us doesn’t like it. But with added spice, especially Ajwain, the radish would be more aromatic and it makes the dish overall tasty.
Ingredients
- 2 Cups Grated Radish
- 1 Cup Radish Greens Finely Chopped
- 2 Cups Wheat Flour
- 2 Tablespoon Gram Flour (Besan / Chickpea Flour)
- ½ teaspoon Garam Masala
- 1 teaspoon Coriander Powder
- 1 teaspoon Red Chili Powder
- 2 Green Chili Finely Chopped
- ½ teaspoon Ajwain / Carom Seeds / Omam
- Ghee For Brushing cooked Thepla
Instructions
- Wash and Grate Radish and Wash the Radish Greens thoroughly twice or thrice and finely chop it and keep it aside
- Take grated radish in a mixing bowl. To the grated radish, add garam masala, coriander powder, red chili powder. salt, ajwain seeds and mix well. Cover & Keep it aside for 30 mins
- After 30 mins, the grated radish would have released lots of moisture. Add wheat flour, garam flour. radish greens and knead well to a soft dough
- Cover & Let the dough rest for 5 mins. Then make Lemon sized balls out of the dough. Dust each dough ball with flour and roll into nice and thin thepla
- Heat tawa and cook each thepla on both the sides till you get brown spots. Brush each cooked thepla with little ghee
- Serve the delicious Mooli Thepla with Curd, Pickle or any Subzi of your choice
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Method with step by step Pictures
- Wash and Grate Radish and Wash the Radish Greens thoroughly twice or thrice and finely chop it and keep it aside. Take grated radish in a mixing bowl. To the grated radish, add garam masala, coriander powder, red chili powder. salt, ajwain seeds and mix well. Cover & Keep it aside for 30 mins
- After 30 mins, the grated radish would have released lots of moisture. Add wheat flour, garam flour. radish greens and knead well to a soft dough
- Cover & Let the dough rest for 5 mins. Then make Lemon sized balls out of the dough. Dust each dough ball with flour and roll into nice and thin thepla
- Heat tawa and cook each thepla on both the sides till you get brown spots. Brush each cooked thepla with little ghee
- Serve the delicious Mooli Thepla with Curd, Pickle or any Subzi of your choice
Notes:
- We can use the Radish green and make other recipes like Saag, Poriyal, usili.
- We can use the spiced grated radish with the greens and use it as a filling and make wonderful paratha too. But I was little lazy to make paratha yesterday, so I made thepla instead.
- We can use white radish instead of these baby radish
- Always we add little curd whenever we add gram flour to thepla. I was out of curd and hence not used. But I advice to add little curd that makes the thepla even more softer
