Hey everyone, hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, lauki kofta curry. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Lauki Kofta Curry is one of the most popular of recent trending meals on earth. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions daily. Lauki Kofta Curry is something that I’ve loved my entire life. They’re nice and they look wonderful.

In this Lauki Kofta Curry recipe, 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. Lauki Kofta Curry Recipe-Fried and Non-Fried Lauki Kofta-Healthy Bottle Gourd Recipe-Ghiya ke Kofte. Lauki kofta recipe with step by step photos.

To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have lauki kofta curry using 23 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Lauki Kofta Curry:

1. Make ready 1 1/2 cups grated Lauki
2. Make ready 5 tablespoons Gram Flour
3. Prepare 2 tablespoon Rice Flour
4. Make ready 1/4 teaspoon Turmeric Powder
5. Take 1 Green Chilli, finely chopped
6. Prepare As required Oil for deep frying
7. Take As per taste Salt
8. Take For Gravy-
9. Prepare 2 medium Tomatoes
10. Prepare 2 tablespoons finely chopped Onion
11. Prepare 2 tablespoons Cashew Nuts, soaked in water for 20 minutes
12. Take 1/2 teaspoon Cumin Seeds
13. Prepare 1/2 tablespoon Ginger-Garlic Paste
14. Get 2 medium Onions, finely chopped
15. Make ready 1 teaspoon Coriander Powder
16. Make ready 1/2 tablespoon Ginger-Garlic Paste
17. Get 1/2 teaspoon Red Chilli Powder
18. Get 1/2 teaspoon Garam Masala Powder
19. Get 1/4 teaspoon Turmeric Powder
20. Prepare 1/4 cup thick Curd (yogurt) (not sour)
21. Take 3/4 cup Water
22. Prepare 2 tablespoons Oil
23. Prepare to taste Salt

These kofta are not deep fried but pan fried in a kuzhi paniyaram pan and has a lip smacking curry too. Lauki Kofta is an Indian kofta curry made of deep fried lauki (bottle gourd) dumplings Lauki kofta is prepared from a mixture of grated lauki which is mixed with spices and besan (gram flour). For making Lauki Kofta Curry recipe, Lauki or bottle gourd is grated and mixed with spices and besan (gram flour). This dough for lauki kofta is then made into small balls which are then deep fried to.

Instructions to make Lauki Kofta Curry:

1. Method for koftas: Peel and grate lauki. Squeeze out the water completely. Take grated lauki in a bowl. Add gram flour, rice flour, turmeric powder, ginger-garlic paste, finely chopped green chilli, finely add chopped onion and salt.
2. Mix all ingredients well & make round shaped balls. Do not keep this mixture for long Time.
3. Grease your palms with oil and divide mixture into 10 to 12 portions. Take each portion and turn it into round shaped balls.
4. Heat oil in a frying pan over medium flame for deep frying. Add 3-4 balls at a time, Stir occasionally and deep-fry until they turn light golden brown and crisp. Take them out, drain excess oil and place them over tissue in a plate.
5. Method for Gravy: Blanch the tomatoes and crush them with cashews nuts to make tomato-cashew puree.
6. Heat 2-tablespoons oil in pan over medium flame. Add cumin seeds and cook for 7-10 seconds. Add ginger-garlic paste, chopped onion and stir-fry until it turns light pink in colour. Add tomato-cashew puree and mix well. Stir-fry for 5-10 minutes.
7. Add red chilli powder, coriander powder, garam masala powder, turmeric powder and salt. Mix well and stir-fry for a minute. Add thick curd and mix.
8. Add water and cook over medium flame for 3-4 minutes. Stir in between occasionally. Add fried kofta balls.
9. Cook for 5 minutes and turn off flame. Transfer it to a bowl and garnish with coriander leaves.

Here is the recipe of Lauki Kofta (Bottle-gourd) for vegetarians. Koftas are basically meatballs that can be had as a starter or a snack, it is also. Lauki Kofta is an excellent alternative for paneer kofta curry and can be made instead of the former as a summer special Indian main-course, for dinner parties or family get-togethers. Lauki Kofta Curry is a simple recipe, with which cooking becomes not only less tedious but also healthier as the kofta are steamed rather than fried. Cook the gravy on a medium flame to avoid.

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