Some health benefits of Radish:
Radishes are good for you. They’re generally safe to eat, but don’t go overboard if you have thyroid problems.
- Radish is known to control damage to our red blood cells, and in the process also increases oxygen supply to the blood.
- Radishes are a good source for anthocyanins that keep our hearts functioning properly.
- If you are known to suffer from hypertension, according to Ayurveda, radish is believed to have a cooling effect on the blood.
- Given that the radish has high vitamin C, it can protect you from common cold and cough, and improve your basic immunity system
Method of preparation:
For marination:
In a mixing bowl, add chopped radish, beaten curd, red chilli powder, coriander powder, jeera powder, freshly grinded ginger garlic paste, kasuri methi, salt, mix well and set aside.
For Gravy:
Grind Onion, tomato, green chilli and grind them altogether. Make a coarse to fine paste.
Cooking method:
- Poke radish with a fork and cut it into small pieces. We’ll have to pressure cook the radish upto 5 whistles.
- Either prepare the entire dish in a kadhai and transfer to pressure cooker or do it vice versa.
- In a pressure cooker, heat oil, add mustard seeds and jeera, curry leaf and gravy. cook well till the raw smell goes.
- once the oil starts to separate, add the marinated ingredients to the cooker adjust the salt and pressure cook upto 5 – 6 whistles.
- Add finely chopped coriander. serve hot with chapati.