Navratri Satvik Chilla Recipe: At present, the festival of Navratri is being celebrated with great pomp throughout the country. In this festival, fasting is observed for nine days and satvik food is eaten. Compared to other fasts, the rules of eating and drinking during Navratri fasts are completely different. But if you want to try something different and tasty this time, then you can eat Rajgira Cheela made of bottle gourd and cheese. Actually, people eat samak rice, buckwheat or water chestnut flour and sago during this period. All these satvik things are nutritious but are a bit boring in taste. Therefore, we have brought a completely different recipe for you, which you must try once.
Ingredients required to make Paneer-Gourd Cheela
- 1 cup Rajgira flour
- 100 grams grated bottle gourd
- 100 grams grated low fat cheese
- 2 finely chopped green chillies
- a handful of coriander
- rock salt as per taste
- half spoon desi ghee
- Water
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Ingredients for Green Peanut Chutney
- Coriander – 50 grams
- 2 green chillies
- 1/4 cup roasted peanuts
- 1/2 cup lemon juice
- 1/4 cup water
How to make Rajgira Cheela with bottle gourd and cheese?
Step-by-step method of making bottle gourd-paneer Rajgira cheela
- 1.First of all, take grated bottle gourd and crumbled cheese in a big vessel. Add finely chopped green chillies, green coriander, black pepper powder, rock salt and Rajgira flour to it. Mix all the ingredients well and prepare a thick solution. If the mixture seems too dry, add water little by little. Keep in mind that the solution should neither be too thin nor too hard.
- 2. Now heat a non-stick pan and apply a little ghee or oil on it and grease it. When the pan is hot, pour a ladle of the prepared mixture on it and spread it slowly to give it the shape of cheela.
- 3. Let the cheela cook on low to medium flame. When its bottom becomes golden and its edges become slightly crunchy, turn it carefully. Apply ghee or oil on the other side and cook well, so that the cheela gets cooked from inside. Repeating the same process, make cheela from the remaining mixture also.
Make green peanut chutney like this
- To make delicious green chutney, add fresh coriander, green chillies, roasted peanuts, lemon juice and some water in a mixer jar. Grind all the ingredients well, until the texture of the chutney becomes smooth.
- If the chutney seems too thick, adjust its consistency by adding a little more water as needed. If you want, you can also add rock salt as per taste.
- Now serve the prepared hot gourd-paneer Rajgira cheela with green peanut chutney. Made from bottle gourd, paneer and rajgira flour, this delicious cheela is a good option to eat during the fast.