Recipe: Perfect Dudhi koftas / bottlegourd kofta

Dudhi koftas / bottlegourd kofta. દૂધીના થેપલા હવે રૂટીન કરતાં કંઈક અલગ રીતે બનાવો gujarati Dudhi Thepla in Unique style. Lauki / Doodhi ka Kofta is gram flour (besan) and bottle gourd dumpling cooked in tomato and spices curry.

Dudhi known as Bottle Gourd is not a favourite vegetable of everyone. Making them into fritters is a good way to sneak the vegetable in some fussy eaters. These kofta are not deep fried but pan fried in a kuzhi paniyaram pan and has a lip smacking curry too. You can cook Dudhi koftas / bottlegourd kofta using 16 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Dudhi koftas / bottlegourd kofta

1. You need 1 big cup of Grated dudhi / lauki/ ghiya (bottlegourd).
2. Prepare 1/4 tsp of Red chilli powder.
3. Prepare 1/4 tsp of Dhania powder / coriander powder.
4. It's to taste 1/4 tsp or of Salt.
5. It's 1 tsp each of Jeera (cumin) and Ajwain (carom).
6. Prepare 1/2 cup of Besan / gram flour.
7. You need as needed of Oil for frying.
8. Prepare of For gravy.
9. Prepare 2 1/2 cup of Curd.
10. It's 3-4 cups of Water.
11. You need 1 tbsp of Ghee.
12. Prepare 1/2 tsp of Jeera(cumin seeds).
13. You need 2/4 tsp of dhania powder / coriander powder.
14. It's 1/2 tsp of Kashmiri red chilli powder.
15. You need 1/2 tsp of Haldi(tarmeric powder).
16. Prepare 1/2 tsp of Garam masala / whole spie powder.

To begin making the Lauki Kofta Recipe, first prep all the ingredients and keep them ready. Peel and grate the bottle gourd and squeeze out the excess water. Veggie style kofta made grated bottle gourd, baked and served in spicy tomato onion sauce. 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 and cashew nuts.

Dudhi koftas / bottlegourd kofta step by step

1. Wash and grate Dudhi/ghiya/lauki.Mix besan/gram flour,salt, dhania powder,red chilli powder, little Ajwain, little jeera and a big pinch black pepper powder. Mix well and let it rest for ten minutes. In the meantime,heat oil in a pan /khadai..
2. Drop small balls of dudhi-besan mixture and fry them keep the flame from medium to slow and fry the koftas by turning them. Take them out when golden brown,on an absorbent paper. Keep them aside..
3. Take curd and mix 1 cup water and whisk it until smooth.Heat ghee in a kadhai add jeera,when it splutter switch off the gas.Add all the masala, except salt and garam masala.
4. Switch on the gas. On slow flame, mix the masala and add the curd, stirring constantly.You can increase the flame,keep stirring, otherwise the curd with curdle.So keep stirring for 10 mins. or till the curd gravy starts boiling..
5. Add 2 cups hot water to the gravy and keep stirring occasionally.Be very careful,if you see the gravy is curdling,stir it vigrously on high flame.It will become smooth and fine..
6. Keep cooking the gravy for another 15 mins or more.You will see the fine granules of cooked curd and now the gravy is not seperating water. It is smooth.If little water seperates... Don't worry,it will become fine by giving it a stir.Add koftas and salt and stir gently on high flame for 2mins, cover the pan with slid and continue cooking for15 mins on slow flame..
7. Cover the pan with a lid and continue cooking for15 mins on slow flame.Add garam masala and serve hot with chapaties or parathas..
8. NOTES. Always you can adjust the masala according to your taste. This is the beauty of indian cooking, it will not make a difference, it's a matter of taste and personal preference.Some like spicy food and some like less spicy.Some like thin gravy,for some thick rich gravy is preferred.In this same dish I like thin #jhol, while my son likes thick curd gravy.
9. You can use onion, green chillies and ginger while making koftas.You can make simple onion-tomato gravy and add koftas to it. We can easily make these variations. In fact my mom always used to make onion-tomato gravy for these koftas and we used to have it with rice.

This step by step photo recipe explains the entire process of how to make lauki. Bottle gourd koftas cooked in onion tomato gravy. To make the koftas squeeze the water from the grated bottle gourd. Add gram flour, coriander leaves, green chillies, cumin seeds, coriander powder, red chilli powder, turmeric powder and salt. Authentically, kofta for any kofta curry is deep fried. but for health reason's and to cut calories . we can shallow fry them in Appe pan or grilled .