Stuffed Raw Tomatoes with Paneer ( cottage cheese ) is a complete party dish to impress your guests at any occasion. I know – these days what guests, what parties – but still, we can give even ourselves a treat to keep spirits high! So cook these stuffed raw tomatoes with paneer (cottage cheese); but if you are not a big fan of paneer then stuff tomatoes with mixed vegetables, followed by cheese, oregano flakes and black pepper.
You might give homemade fresh paneer a try if you are fine with paneer stuffing. Naturally, I have a post on how to prepare Homemade Paneer/Indian Cottage Cheese!! As I used crushed paneer, just add vinegar or lemon juice in hot milk and milk will curdle. Sieve it, use whey for your gravy based dishes or for kneading flour and use paneer for stuffing!
Check out a few more posts for stuffed vegetables in the blog…
Stuffed brinjal/eggplant/aubergines (Bharva baigan)
Stuffed Capsicum (bharva shimla mirch)
Stuffed Brinjals/Eggplant/Aubergine
Stuffed Chilies(Bharva Hari Mirch)
Ingredients :
Small size raw tomatoes 9-10
Crushed paneer 100 gm (reduce or increase as per the size of tomatoes)
Coriander powder 2 tsp
Turmeric powder 1/4 tsp
Asafoetida powder a pinch
Salt as per your taste
Red chili powder 1 tsp
Dry mango powder/lemon juice 1 tsp
Garam masala 1 tsp
Kasuri methi/ chopped green coriander leaves 2 tsp
Oil 4 tbsp
Process:
Wash tomatoes and scoop out the pulp by cutting the top. You can use pulp for preparing gravy by grinding it for gravy based dishes.
Heat 1 tbsp oil in a pan and add paneer along with all spices. Cook this mixture for five minutes and switch off the gas.
Fill this stuffing in scooped out tomatoes and pour rest of the oil in a pan and place stuffed tomatoes in the pan. If you want, can use the top cut part of tomatoes to cover them, though it is not necessary. I used them as it looks fancy to uncover them before serving!!
Remember, we have to cook tomatoes on sim heat. Sometimes, our gas burner doesn’t give very low heat for slow cooking dishes. If that is the case with your burner, just buy one extra small size pan support and use it. This helps in supplying low heat to the cooking pan.
Tomatoes will slowly start becoming tender. When we cook on sim heat then the pan gets heat only at the center, not around the edges of the pan. Keep shifting the position of tomatoes in the pan for even cooking.
As green raw tomatoes are firm tomatoes, it takes some time for them to become soft on sim heat. Once tomatoes are done, sprinkle some kasuri methi or green coriander leaves for garnishing just before serving and uncover them!!
Yummy, your step by step description is tempting
Richa, thank you very much for visiting the blog and appreciating the post ☺️
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Those look delicious!
Thank you very much 😊
No problem! 🙂
Looks delicious. Anything with paneer is always welcome at home. Am definitely going to try this.
I have tried stuffing paneer in the huge potatoes. They come out well too.
Thanks for the share.
Thank you very much Deepika 😘
Who can say no to potatoes and paneer, stuffed potatoes or stuffed paratha, always welcome!
Looks good! 🙂
Thank you very much Lynette 😊
Looks very delicious Deeksha.
Sri, thank you very much ☺️
These look great! X
Thank you very much😊
Wow, such an unique recipe and looking very delicious😋
Thank you very much 😊
Ooo…
Something to do with the green tomatoes that haven’t ripened by the end of the year. Thanks!
Thank you very much. These tomatoes have sour taste we can be a lot more creative with them ☺️
Lovely. Any stuffed vegetable is too tough to resist. Simply awesome Deeksha 😋
Thank you so much Radhika 😊 I agree, stuffed vegetables always bring smile on face ☺️
These look so delicious ma’am. 😇
Harsh, thank you very much 😊
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Raw tomatoes are not popular in our house and this is the first time I have come across this Sabzi
I like a lot raw tomatoes probably because I like anything ‘khatta’. These tomatoes are very good for chutney.
Yes, they are good for chutneys. When mixed with garlic to make garlic chutney, they enhance the taste.
Yes, garlic chutney tastes great with raw tomatoes!
Have you tried it?
Yes, raw tomatoes are my favorite to add anywhere instead of amchoor and I can have lahsun ki chutney each day!! Whenever now possible, travel to Bangalore or Chennai in train. During lunch time when big extended marwari families there open their homemade treasure of food packages at lunch time… can’t describe the heaven of mixed aroma of different flavours!!!
Haha! Marwari people are synonymous with Lahsun Ki chutney. Don’t be surprised to catch a whiff of this chutney during a flight to BLR from JP; many marwari family heading back to south love to eat parantha with Lahsun ki Chutney. 🙂
This is a part of Marwari DNA
Not inside the flight but saw at the airport paratha, lahsun ki chutney with Haldiram Sev bhujiya 😂
great 🙂
A sumptuous platter, Deeksha! You are amazing cook!
Indira 😊 😘❤️
Very nice and something new 👌👌love it😍
Tuvi, thank you very much for visiting the blog and appreciating the post ☺️
oooh looks good Deeksha.. I’m gonna try with peppers.. what do you think?
my son hates tomatoes.. Thanks ❤️ Cindy
Thank you very much Cindy😊 . Yes, kids do not like tomatoes much. Capsicum is perfectly fine. I have a post on stuffed Capsicum with potatoes stuffing. But of course you can decide your favorite flavors ☺️
you are so welcome and thank you!!!
Yes looks very yummy! Is that a Punjabi recipe ? 😉 😀 I like paneer, and used to make it for the dish with paneer and spinach, up to now my husband’s favourite.
The moongdal pancakes were a success, they went straight onto the recipe rotation plan. They tasted very well with the split yellow peas. I think I can use them for all the cases, where I do not get the required daal.
Thank you very much Stella. Not sure if this is Punjabi dish but Apoorva can have paneer and curd only from dairy products so I decided to use paneer. We can use potatoes also as well but paneer looks fancy in front of guests😉
Fantastic, split yellow peas worked so well!!
It is also good to have a change, is it not?
Yes, once in a while it is good!!
Oh wow… Looks yum
Thank you very much 😊
Your site is a treasure.. I will keep visiting often…. Lovely dishes I see in there…. Superb!
Thank you once again for your lovely appreciation ☺️
I hope recipes will be suitable for your taste buds 😊
Yum
Thanks a lot 😊 ☺️
This looks so delicious!
Thank you very much Bhavna☺️
Delicious and yummy recipe, Deeksha.
Thank you very much dear Kamal 😊☺️
You are always welcome dear Deeksha 😊😊😊😊
Kamal, I guess my comments on your blog posts are going in spam as I see them while posting but later on my comment is not there..
I will check my spam folder right away and let you know.
How tempting is that. The use of raw tomatoes is incredible
Thank you very much Nisha 😊
Raw tomato is my favorite for chutney but this time I thought of turning them into complete vegetable 😉
Great choice indeed. I love them too
Wow, I have not tasted this dish, it is awesome in appearance, I believe it will be very tasty to eat. 😋Tremendous work ma’am👌👌🙏🌻🎆💐
Many many thanks Yogesh ☺️ 😊
If anyone has a liking for raw tomatoes, this dish is good for their taste buds
Looks yummy, very tempting 😋
Thank you very much Subbashini 😊
Dee, your attempt was amazing, here during the season of green tomato definitely I will try it !! 💌
Thank you so much Suni☺️
OH MY GOSH! These look delicious! You’ve literally started my stomach growling. 😅Thank You, Deeksha! Cheers!!! 💕
Katy, thank you very much 😊 I hope you will like the taste also☺️
My pleasure, Deeksha! And it looks impossible not to!!! 🤗❤️😊
I love this recipe so beautifully done, was looking for stuffed bell pepper recipe as well but I guess I can try the same with that as well.
Many thanks Nisha. We can change the stuffing with any veggies. I love the combo of bell pepper and potatoes a lot but no doubt that paneer is everyone’s favorite!
Hi this is Aarushi. I was inspired by your Indian recipes and now I’ve decided to post some Indian sweets. Based on your posts , I really thought that you would enjoy these recipes. Hope you to follow the blog so you know when I post.😀
Here is a start:
http://thecookingjournal.food.blog/2020/09/17/indian-sweet-delicious-instant-burfi/
Hope you check these out!
Hi Aarushi, you are a wonderful little chef. I will definitely check out your latest posts. I had posted comments on your previous posts also, probably gone into spam.
Thanks so much for your appreciation! I’ll find out what happened to those comments. So sorry😔
No problem at all. Word press behaves odd many a times.
That is true😂
So how is covid and all there?
Pretty bad. My neighbour’s whole family got infection… The moment we are slight careless and it is nothing but repentance as there are no beds available in the hospitals.
Hmm. Sounds stressful. Here is also pretty bad. Cases increasing everyday. My society has 4 cases😬. And I wish I was in north India in my home right now cuz things are starting to streamline there.
Tempting Deeksha! I just pulled out all the Tomato plants this week. This recipe would be perfect.
Thanks a lot Smitha 😊
Home grown vegetables add wonderful taste in food!!
This looks so tasty
Thank you very much 😊
Nice !! Will definitely try !
Thank you very much😊
Something for me to try next 😊👍
I hope the recipe will suit your taste buds☺️
These look amazing! What a great way to use raw tomatoes!
Raw tomatoes are my favorite, so tried to turn them everyone’s favorite. Thank you very much 😊
I grew tomatoes this year, for the first time ever, and am very pleased with them…although they’re all very little. Too small for this delicious recipe you posted, but I’ll try it with store-bought tomatoes. I never thought of stuffed raw tomatoes – thanks for sharing this! 🙂
Ruth, thank you very much 😊
I am sure you must be very excited with your first tomato crop☺️Home grown vegetables have wonderful taste. Those tiny ones go very well with sauce and chutneys.
Looks very tasty 🙂 good job !
Thank you very much 😊
Wow
This is delcious
Thanks a lot 😊
This dish is perfect, and I love your attention to detail, Excellent,
Joanna
Joanna, thank you very much for your kind words 😊 ☺️
I have to try..
They look so good
Thank you very much 😊
You’re welcome
Wow! It looks beautiful. I am going to start making more stuffed veggies for my family when I am home! it could be very creative, right?
Thanks a lot Oscar❤️
For an artistic person like you creativity has no limits. I am sure you will mould the dish deliciously with your choice of ingredients for stuffing!!
Looks great
Thank you very much Sowmya☺️