Turai Paneer Sabji- Sponge gourd cooked with cottage cheese
Sponge gourd | Turai ki sabji | Dodka Bhaji | Gilki | Jhinge | Turi is a summer special vegetable . Bottle gourd is easily available throughout the year but good quality turai is available only for limited time here in Dubai. I love all kinds of gourd vegetables specially tinda and turai and cook many recipes with these vegetables..
I have already posted few turai recipes in my blog. All the turai recipes are easy to make and mild in taste. I always prefer to cook lauki, tinda and turai with minimum spices and less oil or ghee , this way they taste best and light on stomach too.
Turai is a healthy vegetable with numerous health benefits, still not many people are its fan. Turai is used to make different variety of dishes in all regions of India , the method may be different every where. In southern part and coastal areas they use coconut paste to make it, Gujarati they add peanuts in it to add flavour to the curry.
I have some leftover piece of paneer lying in the fridge so today while making turai sabji , I thought to combine paneer with turai and it turn out good , gave nice texture and thickness to the curry. Instead of mashing the paneer , small cubes of paneer can also be added in it. It goes well with paratha and dal chawal both.
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Turai Paneer ki Sabji
Turai Paneer Sabji- Sponge gourd cooked with cottage cheese
Ingredients
- 1 kg Sponge gourd / Turai /Gilki
- 1 small tomato
- 2 Green Chillies / Hari Mirch
- 1 tsp Lemon Juice / Nimbu Ka Ras
- handful Fresh Coriander / Cilantro / Hara Dhaniya
- 1 tsp Ginger / Adrak
- 150 gm Cottage cheese / Paneer
tadka/ tempering
- 2 tbsp Cooking oil or ghee
- 1 tsp Cumin Seeds / Sabut Jeera
- pinch Asafoetida / Hing powder
- few Curry Leaves / Kadi Patta
Instructions
- Wash and peel turai and chop into small cubes
- Heat oil or ghee in a pan and then add cumin seeds, when cumin start to crackle then add asafoetida, chopped green chilies and curry leaves.
- Now add the chopped tomato and cook for a minute so it will become soft and then add turmeric powder and the chopped turai.
- Add salt and stir to mix , saute for a minute so everything mix well.
- Now cover with a lid and cook till turai become soft.
- If there is moisture in the curry then open the lid and cook on high heat for few minute to reduce the moisture.
- Now mash the paneer OR make small cubes of paneer and add in the curry and mix gently and cook for 2 minutes.
- Add lemon juice and chopped fresh coriander , mix and switch off the heat.
- Serve with roti , paratha or rice and enjoy