Bottle Gourd is known as ‘Lauki or Dudhi’ in Hindi and as ‘Suraikai’ in Tamil. It needs no further introduction as I have discussed in Lauki Sabji in microwave cooking. Lauki kofta is a popular dish in north India. It is very different from south Indian dishes.
Serves: 4 to 6
Cooking time: 45 minutes approximately
Ingredients
- For kofta
- Bottle gourd medium size – 1 no
- Bengal gram flour (besan or kadalai mavu) – 1 cup
- Onion – 1 no
- Potato – 1 no
- Green chilli – 2 no
- Ginger – ½ inch piece
- Turmeric powder – ¼ tea spoon
- Red chilli powder – ½ tea spoon
- Curry and Coriander leaves – few
- Sodium bi carbonate – pinch
- Salt – as per taste
- Oil – for frying kofta
- For gravy
- Onion – 3 no
- Tomato – 2 no
- Garlic clove – 5 no
- Ginger – ½ inch piece
- Green chilli – 2 no
- Turmeric – ¼ tea spoon
- Red chilli powder – 1 tea spoon
- Coriander powder – 2 table spoon
- Roasted cumin powder – ¼ tea spoon
- Garam masala powder – ½ tea spoon
- Coriander leaves – few
- Salt – as per taste
- Cumin seeds – ½ tea spoon (for seasoning)
- Oil – 1 table spoon (for seasoning)
Method
Kofta
- Boil potato, peel and mash; chop onion, green chilli, ginger, curry and coriander leaves.
- Peel and grate bottle gourd; squeeze, remove juice and keep it for further use in curry.
- In Bengal gram flour add chopped onion, ginger, green chilli, coriander leaves, turmeric powder, red chilli powder and salt; add mashed potato, mix and form a dough by adding little water; make small balls, deep fry in oil till golden/light brown colour; remove and keep on kitchen tissue to remove excess oil.
Gravy
- Step 1: Chop one onion, two green chilli.
- Step 2: Grind garlic, ginger, two onions and one green chilli coarsely.
- Step 3: Grind tomato, red chilli powder, coriander powder, turmeric powder, cumin powder, garam masala powder and salt as a paste.
- Step 4: Do the seasoning; add step 1 item fry until onion is soft; add step 2 item fry for few seconds; add step 3 items mix well and cook for 4 to 5 minutes until oil separates.
- Step 5: Add bottle gourd juice, one cup water; bring to boil, keep cooking for 5 minutes in low flame; add fried koftas, mix gently and cook for 2 to 3 minutes; switch off flame and allow 15 minutes for koftas to settle in gravy.
- Lauki Kofta curry is ready; garnish and serve with Chapatti, Puri or Rice. (A cut away kofta is also shown below)
Tips:
- Make kofta by adding water little by little; too much water in kofta will absorb more oil while frying.
- Make small koftas; too big koftas will take long time to fry and the surface may become dark brown before it gets cooked inside.
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Lovely pic and liked the way u have explained it too….looks delicious…
Lauki koftas looks tempting and delicious…
Wow.. A totally new recipe to me.. And thanks for the step-by-step presentation, it was excellent!!
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really tempting and am going to try it nw only !!!!!!!
i tried it and it came out wornderfully well …
te second time i replaced te potato with leftover cooked rice; tat was also good.
thnks fr te recipe.
i will try ur recipie and it is osam .my one yrs old baby really like to eat it .
The recipe looks tempting and I am sure its going to taste yummy…
You have explained it very well…
I tried this recipe… wow.. amazing, no one could able to recognize the bottleguard in that. Thanks for the wonderful recipe.. keep up the good work..
I made the recipes completely with the help of your blog post. And it was delicious. Thank you for sharing the info