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LAUKI KOFTA RECIPE

August 8, 2020

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Lauki Kofta Recipe is a recipe in which koftas are prepared by deep frying using ghee, gram flour, and some spices and then served in a spicy gravy of onion-tomato.

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Ingredients

Bottle Gourd – 300 gms ( 1 cup grated)
Chickpea flour – 1 cup ( 100 gms)
Tomatoes – 3 ( 250 gms)
Green chilli – 1
Green coriander 2 to 3 tbsp ( finely chopped )
Dry fenugreek leaves – 1 tsp
Green chilli – 1 (finely chopped)
Ginger – 1 tsp (paste)
Cumin seeds – 1/4 tsp
Asafoetida – 1/2 pinch
Turmeric powder – 1/2 tsp
Carom seeds – less than 1/4 tsp
Red chilli powder – 1/2 tsp
Coriander powder – 1.5 tsp
Garam masala – 1/4 tsp
Oil – for frying and gravy

How to Make Lauki Kofta Recipe

Take lauki and wash with running water and dry it. after drying peel bottle guard (lauki) skin by peeler. Now grate lauki and remove excess lauki juice from grated lauki.
Add chickpea flour, green chili, ginger paste, and turmeric with coriander and red chili powder and salt and mix well.
Add carom seeds, green coriander, again mix all ingredients well, once ready, make the dough and keep aside to puff up.
Heat oil in kadai for frying koftas, to check the oil is proper hot or not put a small dough of kofta in kadai once kofta dough starts frying it means oil is ready for frying. Add koftas in kadai and fry all.
Once brown color is reached, flip and fry well until golden brown from all sides. Once all sides fry takes out them from kadai and fries rest of koftas likewise.
For gravy, heat oil and add cumin seeds, reduce the gas flame, add asafoetida, ginger paste, coriander powder, turmeric powder and roast slightly all those ingredients.
Now add tomato green chilli paste. increase gas flame and add red chili powder, stir slowly and roast until oil separates from it.
Once oil separated add dry fenugreek leaves, chickpea flour, stir, and roast masala for 2-3 minutes.
When masala is roasted, add 2 cups water to it and mix well, now adds lat and gram masala, green coriander, and lauki juice (if required).
Cover the kadai and cook for 5 minutes. Add koftas in kadai and cook further 4-5 minutes
After cooking removes vegetables in a separate bowl.
Garnish with fresh coriander leaves.
Enjoy Lauki Kofta Recipe.