Lauki ka Kofta is a recipe that is not easily found in any restaurant but is made in every home. This bottle gourd dumplings, which tastes great and is full of nutrients, is very easy to make and you can make it and keep it in the fridge. Check out this recipe...
Add 1 teaspoon of salt and rest it for at least 30 minutes. You can see the bottle gourd release water.
Now squeeze the water and take them into a separate bowl. Keep the squeezed water aside for later.
After that add all dry spices like salt (optional), asafoetida, red chili powder, green chili, turmeric powder, finely chopped coriander leaves, roasted gram flour along with soaked small yellow lentils, ginger-garlic paste, and yogurt.
Mix them well and make a smooth mixture.
Heat a frying pan with enough oil. Now your choice is what kind of fry you need. I like shallow frying but you can also fry these deep.
Now make small balls with your hands and put them in oil one by one.
Keep frying them until the skin turns golden brown. Do not keep the heat into high, because medium flame helps to fry them well from inside.
Thereafter keep them out from the pan and gather on tissue paper to soak excess oil from it.
Making Curry
Now heat another frying pan with 2 tbsp of refined oil.
Temper with 1 pinch of asafoetida and cumin seeds.
When the cumin seeds start crackling, add cinnamon, clove, and cardamom and fry a little.
Then add 1 cup of chopped onion and fry a little.
Also, add chopped green chili along with 1/2 tbsp of ginger-garlic paste.
Now add 2 medium sizes chopped tomato. You can also add 1/2 ts of salt to speed up the saute process.
Thereafter add all the dry spices like turmeric powder, cumin powder, coriander powder, red chili powder, roasted gram flour, and saute well.
Continue the saute process in medium heat until the mixture release oil.
Now add that bottle gourd squeezed water for gravy. Also, add 1/2 tbsp of sugar to balance the taste.
Then add the fried koftas along with 1 tbsp chopped coriander leaves.