Lauki Ke koftay

Name: Lauki Ke koftay
Cuisine: Pakistani
Ingredients: 2 medium Tomatoes; 2 medium Onions, finely chopped; 1/2 cup Milk 🥛; 1/2 teaspoon Cumin Seeds; 1/2 tablespoon Ginger-Garlic Paste; 1 teaspoon Coriander Powder; 1/2 teaspoon Red Chilli Powder; 1/2 teaspoon Garam Masala Powder; 1/4 teaspoon Turmeric Powder; 1/4 cup thick Curd (yogurt) (not sour); 3/4 cup Water; 2 tablespoons Oil; Salt to taste; 2-3 tbsp Cream; 1 1/2 cups grated Lauki (bottle gourd/ghiya/doodhi); 5 tablespoons Gram Flour; 2 tablespoon Rice Flour; 2 tablespoons finely chopped onion 🧅; 1/4 teaspoon Turmeric Powder; 1/2 tablespoon Ginger-Garlic Paste; 2 tablespoons finely chopped green chillies; Oil for deep frying; Salt to taste

Sumera Rahman @cook_19058549

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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 onion .

Sumera Rahman @cook_19058549

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Ingredients

For Gravy
2medium Tomatoes
2medium Onions, finely chopped
1/2 cupMilk 🥛
1/2 teaspoonCumin Seeds
1/2 tablespoonGinger-Garlic Paste
1 teaspoonCoriander Powder
1/2 teaspoonRed Chilli Powder
1/2 teaspoonGaram Masala Powder
1/4 teaspoonTurmeric Powder
1/4 cupthick Curd (yogurt) (not sour)
3/4 cupWater
2 tablespoonsOil
Salt to taste
2-3 tbspCream
Ingredients for Kofta:
1 1/2 cupsgrated Lauki (bottle gourd/ghiya/doodhi)
5 tablespoonsGram Flour
2 tablespoonRice Flour
2 tablespoonsfinely chopped onion 🧅
1/4 teaspoonTurmeric Powder
1/2 tablespoonGinger-Garlic Paste
2 tablespoonsfinely chopped green chillies
Oil for deep frying
Salt to taste

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Steps

1

Peel and grate lauki. Squeeze out the water completely and keep that water for making gravy.
2

Take squeezed grated lauki in a large bowl. Add gram flour, rice flour, turmeric powder, ginger-garlic paste, finely chopped green chilli, finely chopped onion and salt.
3

Mix all ingredients well. Mixture should have a thick consistency to make round shaped balls. If it is watery then add 1-2 teaspoons gram flour and mix. Do not keep this mixture idle for long time since lauki releases water over time and it will make mixture soggy and you will not be able to make kofta balls.
4

Grease your palms with oil and divide mixture into 10 to 12 portions. Take each portion and turn it into round shaped balls.
5

Boil tomato and onion in milk till it half dries up then blend it in to a smooth paste
6

Heat oil and add the paste in it add all the ingredients in it and bhonify for few minutes add the kofta in curry and add water in it cook covered for 3-4minutes
7

Add cream in it and serve with hot chapati