Hey everyone, it is Louise, welcome to my recipe page. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, bottle gourd kofta. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Bottle Gourd Kofta is one of the most favored of current trending foods in the world. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It is appreciated by millions daily. They are fine and they look wonderful. Bottle Gourd Kofta is something that I have loved my entire life.
how to make bottle gourd kofta curry with detailed photo and video recipe. simple, healthy bottle guard recipe or lauki recipe prepared from deep fried grated bottle gourd with tomato and onion based sauce. this is an ideal curry and and best alternative to traditional malai kofta curry and can be easily served with roti or chapathi. Peel the skin of the bottle gourd and remove the pits. Into it add finely chopped green chillies, ginger-garlic paste, split gram powder, garam masala, coriander powder, chilli powder and salt. Make small balls from the kofta mix and deep fry in hot oil Lauki Kofta is a delicious curry made of bottle gourd dumplings (aka koftas) dunked in a flavorful gravy.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook bottle gourd kofta using 24 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Bottle Gourd Kofta:
- Prepare For kofta:
- Get 1/2 bottle gourd
- Get 1/4 cup gram flour (besan)
- Prepare 1/4 tsp turmeric powder
- Take 1/2 tsp red chilli powder
- Take 1 onion finely chopped
- Get To taste salt
- Prepare As needed oil for deep frying
- Get For gravy:
- Get 1.5 tbsp tomato paste
- Take 1/2 tsp cumin seeds
- Prepare 1 bay leaf
- Take 1/2 inch cinnamon stick
- Get 1 onion finely chopped
- Get 2 tsp ginger garlic paste
- Take 1/4 tsp turmeric powder
- Take 1 tsp red chilli powder
- Get 1 tsp cumin powder
- Make ready 1 tsp coriander powder
- Make ready 1/2 tsp garam masala powder
- Get To taste salt
- Take 2 tbsp oil
- Prepare 1 tsp fresh cream
- Make ready 2 tbsp chopped coriander leaves
Bottle gourd, known as lauki (ghiya) in Hindi and Dudhi in Gujarati, is generally not a popular vegetable in every household but it makes one of the best Indian curries - Lauki Kofta Curry in which deep-fried koftas (round shaped deep fried spicy dumplings) made of grated bottle gourd, gram flour, rice flour and ginger-garlic paste are cooked in spicy gravy of tomato and cashew nuts. Lauki/ghia also known as bottle gourd or opo squash Is used to make the fried dumplings and then added to a tangy tomato based gravy. The whole curry is mildly spiced and has a good flavor and slight tang due to tomatoes. The koftas along with the curry taste really yummy.
Instructions to make Bottle Gourd Kofta:
- To begin with peel and grate the bottle gourd. Squeeze out the water from it completely and reserve the water to be used in gravy.
- Transfer the squeezed bottle gourd to a mixing bowl. Add gram flour, turmeric powder, chilli powder, chopped onion and salt.
- Mix everything well to form a dough and make equal sized balls of kofta out of the dough.
- Heat oil in a kadai and gently place bottle gourd koftas in hot oil. Fry them until golden brown from all sides on a medium heat. Remove them to a plate and keep aside.
- Now to prepare the gravy, heat oil in a nonstick pan and add cumin seeds, bay leaf and cinnamon. Fry till they turn aromatic. Add chopped onion and fry till brown. Add ginger garlic paste, turmeric powder, chilli powder, cumin powder, coriander powder and saute for a while. Next add tomato paste and salt. Saute till the gravy thickens and oil separates.
- Then add in left over bottle gourd water. Add 1 tsp fresh cream and mix well. Cook for few minutes. Finally add garam masala powder and chopped coriander leaves.
- Now add the fried kofta balls to the gravy and cook for 3-4 minutes over a slow heat. Turn off the flame.
- Serve the delicious bottle gourd kofta hot with roti/ naan or as a side dish with rice.
The whole curry is mildly spiced and has a good flavor and slight tang due to tomatoes. The koftas along with the curry taste really yummy. My first impression on having the curry was - the koftas were yum… Peel and grate the bottle gourd and squeeze out the excess water from the grated bottle gourd and keep it aside. Into a large mixing bowl, add the grated lauki, turmeric, red chilli, coriander powder, garam masala, gram flour and salt to taste. Lauki kofta recipe - kofta made from bottle gourd (lauki) and besan, then deep fried in the oil.
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