Hey everyone, it’s Louise, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, lauki kofta curry. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Lauki kofta curry is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods in the world. It is simple, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions every day. They are fine and they look fantastic. Lauki kofta curry is something which I have loved my whole life.
Lauki kofta is a light tomato-based delicious gravy dunked with koftas made from bottle gourd (lauki or ghia or dudhi). First time I heard about and also had lauki ke kofte at my in-law's home. I had never heard nor knew that a curry is made from bottle gourd koftas. 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 kofta recipe
To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have lauki kofta curry using 15 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Lauki kofta curry:
- Prepare 1 long or round juicy bottle gaurd or lauki
- Make ready 1 cup gramflour
- Get 1/3 cup curd
- Get 2 big finely chopped onion
- Get 1 green chilli chopped
- Take 5 tomatoes finely chopped
- Prepare 1 tbsp coriander powder
- Make ready 1 tbap garam masala
- Get 1 tbsp salt
- Take Half tsp black pepper
- Prepare 1 tsp red chilli powder
- Make ready 1 tsp cumin seeds
- Get 2 tbsp finely chopped garlic and ginger
- Prepare Pinch hing or asafoetida
- Get 1 tsp turmeric
These koftas are simmered in creamy, flavorful onion-tomato-yogurt gravy. Lauki or bottle gourd is also known as Ghiya or doodhi or Dudhi or Opo squash. In this summer season, it is available in all Indian veggie market. The Lauki/Doodhi kofta's are big favourite in my family, and considering they are non-fried gives me the satisfaction that my family is eating healthy.
Instructions to make Lauki kofta curry:
- First peeloff bottlegaurd or lauki.rinse in water.add gramflour and curd.pinch of salt,red pepper and turmeric
- Mix well make a thick fritter mixture no need to add water.just keep thick so fritters could not broken in curry.
- For frying just make oil hot at medium flame for 5 minutes and add small balls type portions into oil.deep fry until golden.
- For curry roast garlic,cumin seeds,ginger,green chilli,onion all together.saute until golden at high flame.add spices and tomatoes.let it cook at medium flame until mixture looks like thick curry.add around 1 glass water and take a nice boil.add lauki fritters and don't over boil now.just mix and turn off.enjoy so yumm lauki kofta curry
In this summer season, it is available in all Indian veggie market. The Lauki/Doodhi kofta's are big favourite in my family, and considering they are non-fried gives me the satisfaction that my family is eating healthy. Serve the Lauki Kofta Curry along with Palak Dal, Phulka and a Paneer Pulav for a delicious dinner along with laccha pyaz and lassi. Lauki Kofta is a delicious curry made of bottle gourd dumplings (aka koftas) dunked in a flavorful gravy. This restaurant style gravy is a delight, which is relished by all.
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