Tinda

Tinda, also called Indian round gourd, apple gourd, Indian baby pumpkin or tinda gourd, is the small, round, pale-green immature fruit of Praecitrullus fistulosus, a trailing annual vine of the gourd family (Cucurbitaceae) native to the Indian subcontinent. Picked young at roughly the size of a tennis ball, it has crisp, pale, watery flesh and soft, edible immature seeds, and is a staple summer vegetable of North Indian and Pakistani cooking — never eaten as a sweet fruit but cooked in curries, sabzis and stews.