Hello everybody, it is John, welcome to my recipe page. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, lauki kofta curry. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Lauki kofta curry is one of the most well liked of recent trending meals in the world. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. They are fine and they look wonderful. Lauki kofta curry is something which I have loved my entire life.
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 recipe with step by step photos. Lauki kofta is a light tomato-based delicious gravy The koftas along with the curry taste really yummy.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook lauki kofta curry using 27 ingredients and 15 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Lauki kofta curry:
- Prepare for kofta:
- Get 500 grams lauki or bottle gourd (grated)
- Prepare 8 tbsp besan or chickpea
- Take 1 tbsp ginger garlic paste
- Prepare 2 onions finely chopped
- Make ready 2 green chillies finely chopped
- Get 1 tbsp coriander powder
- Get 1 tbsp garam masala
- Get 1 tsp red chilli powder
- Get 1 tsp turmeric powder
- Get to taste Salt
- Prepare 1/4 cup Chopped cilantro leaves
- Get as required Oil for deep frying
- Make ready for kofta curry:
- Take 3 onions finely chopped
- Prepare 4 green chillies
- Take 1/2 tbsp ginger garlic paste
- Make ready 8 tomatoes (grind tomatoes, green chilli and cashews)
- Prepare 1 tbsp cashews
- Prepare 100 grams fresh curd
- Prepare to taste Salt
- Take 2 tsp turmeric powder
- Prepare 1 tbsp red chilli powder
- Make ready 1 tbsp coriander powder
- Get 1 tbsp garam masala
- Take as required Chopped cilantro leaves
- Take 5 tbsp Smoked mustard oil
These kofta are not deep fried but pan fried in a kuzhi paniyaram pan and has a lip smacking curry too. 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. lauki kofta preparation recipe firstly, heat oil and add in cumin and bay leaf. saute till they turn aromatic. finally, garnish finely chopped coriander and serve lauki kofta curry with roti. 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).
Steps to make Lauki kofta curry:
- Peel the bottle gourd, and then grate it in a bowl. Squeeze it well and keep the leftover water in a bowl. It will be used afterwards in curry.
- Now add all the ingredients into it. I.e. besan, ginger garlic paste, onion, green chilli, salt, red chilli powder, coriander powder, garam masala, turmeric powders and cilantro. Make into a soft dough.
- Grease your one hand with water. And start making medium sized balls out of it.
- Now take a pan, heat oil in it. And start frying these balls on medium flame so that they are properly cooked from inside too. If you'll fry it on full flame the balls will get brown in colour soon from outside, but will remain uncooked inside.
- This is how your balls will look like from inside.
- Place all the fried balls in a plate. Then start with the curry making.
- Take a saucepan, put oil in it. Then add ginger garlic paste in it. Stir it for a while till golden brown.
- Then add chopped onions. Fry them until light pinkish in colour.
- Add all the spices and condiments. Give all of them a nice stir.
- Then add the ground tomatoes, green chilli and cashews.
- Keep frying them till the oil separates.
- Keeping the flame on medium, add curd. And keep stirring it.
- Now add that leftover water and some more to adjust the consistency of your gravy. Let it come to a boil.
- Add the fried balls or koftas. Cover and let it cook for 5-8 mins.
- Serve hot garnished with cilantro leaves with your choice of chapati or rice!
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. 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.
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