snake gourd stir fry with paneer is a tasty side dish for rice. Using snake gourd we can prepare kootu, kuzhambhu, and also stir fry with coconut. This stir fry gives a unique taste with paneer. Cooking snake gourd in moderate level gives crunchy veggie, also that get mixed up with paneer relish your taste buds without a doubt

Let us see how to make it.

snake gourd stir fry

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Prep Time 10

Cook Time 15

Total Time 25

Course Side Dish

Cuisine Indian

Servings 3

Ingredients

1 tbsp oil
½ tsp mustard seeds
few curry leaves
1 Kashmiri red chilly
1 onion (chopped)(small-sized)
1 tsp ginger garlic paste (or crushed)
250 gm snake gourd (chopped)
½ tsp Kashmiri red chili powder
½ tsp garam masala powder
¼ tsp turmeric powder
10 cube paneer
salt to taste
1 tbsp coriander leaves (chopped)

Instructions

Prior work:

Firstly, peel off the snake gourd, rise it in water
chop into 1 inch thin slices, keep aside
Crumble 10 cubes of paneer well and keep aside

For stir fry:

Heat the oil in a pan, splutter ½ tsp of mustard seeds, add in curry leaves, 1 Kashmiri red chilly
Now add chopped onion, saute it well till it becomes glossy
Put chopped snake gourd, saute it for a minute, add salt
Add the spice powders, saute it for 30 seconds in low flame
Add 2 tbsp of water, keep the flame low, lid on, cook it for 5 minutes in covered condition, give stir in regular intervals
open the lid, check if the veggie got cooked, if so add crumbled paneer, mix well
Add salt if required
Garnish with coriander leaves