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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 Curry is a delicious Indian gravy dish which mainly comprises of two parts - Gravy made from onion tomato base & dumplings made from mixture of Bottle gourd, gram flour & flavored with spices. These two mixed together & served make an excellent combination with Rice/Roti.
To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have gheeya kofta(with rice flour) using 20 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make GHEEYA KOFTA(with rice flour):
- Make ready For Kofta:
- Get 1 1/2 cups grated Lauki (bottle gourd/ghiya)
- Get 5 tablespoons Rice Flour
- Get 1/4 teaspoon Turmeric Powder
- Take 1 Green Chilli, finely chopped
- Take 1/2 tablespoon Ginger-Garlic Paste
- Take 2 tablespoons finely chopped Onion
- Take as required Oil for deep frying
- Make ready to taste Salt
- Prepare For Gravy-
- Take 2 medium Tomatoes
- Get 1/2 teaspoon Cumin Seeds
- Prepare 1/2 tablespoon Ginger-Garlic Paste
- Make ready 2 medium Onions, finely chopped
- Prepare 1 teaspoon Coriander Powder
- Make ready 1/2 teaspoon Red Chilli Powder
- Make ready 1/2 teaspoon Garam Masala Powder
- Take 3/4 cup Water
- Get 2 tablespoons Oil
- Get to taste Salt
Lauki is a kind of vegetable that most of the people don't like its taste but when making kofta of Lauki, dudhi halwa, and make Lauki- chana dal, it's very tasty and delicious. Make the kofta: Process the seeds or nuts until a coarse meal forms. Add potato and process until coarse. Add the rest of the ingredients and pulse until most of the chickpeas have broken down. (Without processor, use nut or seed flour and grated potato.
Instructions to make GHEEYA KOFTA(with rice flour):
- Peel and grate Gheeya.Squeeze out the water completely and keep that water for making gravy.
- Take squeezed grated gheeya in a large bowl. Add rice flour, turmeric powder, ginger-garlic paste, finely chopped green chilli, finely chopped onion and salt.
- Mix all ingredients well. Mixture should have a thick consistency to make round shaped balls. If it is watery then add 1-2 teaspoons Rice flour and mix. Do not keep this mixture idle for long time since Gheeya releases water over time and it will make mixture soggy and you will not be able to make kofta balls.
- Grease your palms with oil and divide mixture into 10 to 12 portions. Take each portion and turn it into round shaped balls
- Heat oil in a frying pan over medium flame for deep frying. When oil is medium hot, add 3-4 balls at a time. Stir occasionally and deep-fry until they turn light golden brown and crisp. Take them out using slotted spoon, drain excess oil and place them over kitchen tissue in a plate.
- Method for Gravy:Heat 2-tablespoons oil in saucepan over medium flame. Add cumin seeds and cook until they sizzle, 7-10 seconds. Add ginger-garlic paste and stir-fry for 30-40 seconds. Add chopped onion and stir-fry until it turns light pink in colour.
- Add tomato puree and mix well. Stir-fry for 3-4 minutes
- Add red chilli powder, coriander powder, garam masala powder, turmeric powder and salt (add for gravy). Mix well and stir-fry for a minute.
- Add water 1/2-cup water and cook over medium flame for 3-4 minutes. Stir in between occasionally
- Add fried rice flour kofta balls to the gravy.
- Cook for 5-6 minutes and turn off flame. Transfer it to a serving bowl and garnish with coriander leaves.
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 make lauki koftas. The lauki kofta is golden brown from outside and soft from inside. Traditional long process of soak, grind, and ferment is eliminated to make this Rice Flour Dosa recipe faster. Roll this on the rice flour and keep aside.
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