I got this recipe from my sister, she often made it. It has a different and delicious taste. Stuffed round gourd is a perfect recipe for everyday cooking.
Bharay Hue Tinday Recipe
Stuffed Round Gourd
Recipe Type: Main Course
Cuisine: Pakistani
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Serves: 4
Ingredients
- For Stuffing
- Round gourd (tinda) ½ kg
- Tomatoes 2
- Green chilies 6
- Ginger paste 1 tea spoon
- Garlic paste 1 tea spoon
- Salt to taste
- Red chili powder 1 tea spoon
- Turmeric powder ½ tea spoon
- Oil 1/4 cup
- Onion 1
- Oil for fry
- For Masala
- Oil ¼ cup
- Onion 1 (chopped)
- Tomato 2 (chopped)
- Qasoori methi 1 tbsp
Instructions
For Stuffing
- Cut 1/4-inch slice off top of round gourd and scoop out, leaving shells intact about 1/4 inches thick.
- Chop together onion, tomatoes, green chilies, ginger paste, garlic paste, salt, red chili powder, and turmeric.
- Heat oil in pan and fry onions to light brown. Add chopped masala, and scoped mixture of round gourd. Stir fry until tomatoes water dries. Let it cool.
- Stuff each bottle gourd with the mixture. Close with tip and secure with thread.
- Heat 2 tbsp oil in frying pan and fry stuffed round gourd and set aside.
For Masala
- Heat oil in cooking pan and lightly golden onion, put leftover masala along tomato and cook until tomatoes are soften.
- Add 1 cup water, let boil it then add round gourd and cook on slow flame until tender.
- Add qasoori methi and remove from heat.
- Serve hot with roti.