Friday 16 November 2018

Mooli Aloo bhaji bengali way(vegetarian dish)

Radish is one of the nutritious root vegetable featured in both raw salads as well as in main recipes.They are one of very low calorie root vegetables.Fresh roots provide 16 calories per gram.They are excellent source of antioxidents,electrolytes,minerals,vitamins and dietary fibre.
Both roots and green leafy part is used for cooking.
Today I am sharing a recipe of bengal.This dish is commonly made in bengali household.Very simple to cook and goes well with dal and rice or even rotis.



  1. Mooli Aloo bhaji
  2. Ingredients
  3. Potato sliced-1
  4. Radish sliced-1
  5. Vadi-few
  6. Green chillis-2
  7. Turmeric powder-1/2tp
  8. Cumin powder-1/2 tp
  9. Salt and sugar to taste
  10. Ghee-1tp
  11. White oil-2 tbsp
  12. Chopped coriander for garnish


Method
1 Take a pan and add ghee and oil together.Heat it.
2 Now add vadis and fry till light golden colour.Take it out and reserve.
3 Then add onion seeds or kalongi and green chillies to temper.
4 Then add the washed and drained potato and radish slices and saute for a min.
5 Now add turmeric and cumin powder,salt and sugar to taste.Fry it for 3 min .
6 Then add little water,fried vadis mix it and cover and cook till the vegetables turn soft and water has dried off.Take out the lid.
7 Fry it further for a min and the bhaji is ready.
Garnish with chopped coriander.

Note:You can also blanch potato and radish before ,drain and then follow the same process.No add to add water in this way of cooking as the vegetables are already blanched.
Cooking by Dimple.
Recipe of my Maa