Mooli Cheela- a quick and healthy breakfast recipe made with radish and flours.
Mooli Cheela is a quick and easy to make savoury pancake , which is a healthy and filling breakfast and a good tiffin option. During winter we get very nice variety of radishes’ and we mostly use them for making salad, parathas and pickles
Few day’s back I visited a friends’ house and she made these healthy and easy to make mooli cheela for us with tea. I like the taste and texture of the cheela and then tried at home and every one liked them at my place.
Mooli is a healthy vegetable , it is fill of Vitamin A, C, E, potassium, Calcium , rich in fiber , Zinc , packed with antioxidants’, it also improve digestion and enhance metabolism. It also helps to control body weight. Some people might find it hard to digest then they can add some carom seeds and asafoetida in the preparation or add black salt and pepper powder in the salad to help in the digestion.
I made this mooli cheela with wheat flour and some maize flour/ makki ka aata and for crispness I added some semolina. You can substitute maize flour with gram flour or ragi flour . you can also add some carrot in it for making it colourful.
Some finely chopped radish leaves or fresh coriander, green chilies, ginger, sesame seeds, grated radish and few basic spices are added in the batter. The batter should be medium thick and easy to spread, don’t make it too thick or thin else become difficult to spread.
You can also add flax seed powder , spirulina powder and moringa powder in it if you have them at home to make the cheela more healthier. You can add these healthy powders in any cheela you make it regularly at home, I always add these in my cheela batter and chapati dough.
You can roast the cheela with ghee, oil or butter whatever suits you. It stay soft even after it become cold so a good option to pack in lunch boxes. It taste good with dahi, chutney or ketchup.
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Mooli Cheela
Ingredients
- 2 cup Radish/ Mooli grated
- 1 cup Whole Wheat Flour / Atta
- 1/2 cup Gram flour / Besan check notes below
- 1/2 cup Semolina / Sooji
- 1/4 cup Fresh Coriander / Cilantro / Hara Dhaniya check notes
- 1 tbsp Green Chillies / Hari Mirch chopped
- 1.5 tsp Ginger / Adrak grated
- 1 tsp White sesame seeds /til
- 1.5 tsp Red Chili Powder/ Laal Mirch
- to taste Salt / Namak
- 1 tsp Cumin Seeds / Sabut Jeera
- 1/4 tsp Asafoetida / Hing powder
- 1/3 tsp Turmeric Powder / Haldi Powder
- 1/4 tsp Carom Seeds / Ajwain
Instructions
- Wash and peel the radish and then grate it with a medium thick grater.
- Take a big bowl add all the flours and spices in it and mix well.
- Add enough water to make a thick paste and mix it well.
- Now add the grated radish, coriander, green chili,ginger and chopped coriander and mix well.
- Cover and let it rest for 5 minute.
- The radish will release some water and the batter will become little loose now.
- Now heat a non stick tawa and wipe it with few drops of oil.
- Pour a ladleful of batter and spread it thinly over the griddle.
- Cook on medium heat till the top part dries up, now drizzle some oil or ghee over and around the edges and then flip the side.
- Again cook from this side till golden and crisp, drizzle some oil or ghee around the edges and cook.
- Remove when done from both the sides.
- Serve hot with green chutney, ketchup or raita.
Notes