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Lauki kofta- A dish from northern India is one of the most popular of recent trending meals in the world. It is simple, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions daily. Lauki kofta- A dish from northern India is something that I’ve loved my whole life. They’re fine and they look fantastic.
Lauki kofta is a light tomato-based delicious gravy dunked with koftas made from bottle gourd (lauki or ghia or dudhi). First time I heard about and also had lauki ke kofte at my in-law's home. I had never heard nor knew that a curry is made from bottle gourd koftas. Malai kofta is a savory, creamy dish from Northern India.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have lauki kofta- a dish from northern india using 21 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Lauki kofta- A dish from northern India:
- Take 1 cup grated bottle gourd
- Get 2 tbsp gram flour (besan)
- Prepare 1/2 tbsp red chilli powder
- Take 1/2 tbsp turmeric
- Make ready 1/2 tbsp coriander powder
- Take 1 tbsp grated ginger
- Get to taste Salt
- Prepare 1/2 tbsp caraway seeds (ajwain)
- Make ready For Gravy:
- Get 2 tomatoes blanched and pureed
- Prepare 1 onion finely chopped
- Get 1 tbsp ginger garlic paste
- Make ready 1-2 tbsp cream
- Take As per taste Salt
- Make ready 1 tbsp cumin
- Take 1 tbsp mustard seeds
- Prepare 1 pinch hing(asafoetida)
- Prepare 1 &1/2 tbsp coriander powder
- Prepare 1/3 tbsp kasoori methi
- Get 1/2 tbsp turmeric
- Prepare 1 &1/2 tbsp kashmiri red chilli powder
One of my favorite vegetarian meatballs is Lauki Paneer Kofta, popularly known as Lauki ka kofta. It's this melt in your mouth, delicious kofta (meatballs) made using lauki and paneer in a saucy delicious gravy. A quintessential kofta/vegetarian meatballs recipe from the northern part of India. Lauki kofta (Bottle gourd kofta) is one of those festive and delicious recipes from North India!
Instructions to make Lauki kofta- A dish from northern India:
- Add salt to the grated bottle gourd and using a muslin cloth drain the excess water. Keep the water aside for later use.
- Now add grated ginger, gram flour, turmeric, ajwain(caraway seeds), red chilli powder.
- Mix well and make small kofta balls
- In a pan heat oil for deep frying and fry all the kofta balls in low to medium heat. Once done, keep them aside.
- For the gravy, in a pan take some ghee or oil, add cumin and mustard seeds and allow to splutter. Then add onions and saute untill golden.
- Then add ginger-garlic paste and stir until onions are lightly browned and paste is cooked. Then add the tomato puree.
- Now add all the dry spices and keep sauteing for 4-5 mins untill the gravy releases oil. Then add 1 tbsp ketchup and cook for another min.
- Once the gravy is done, add the salted lauki water and bring it to a boil. Taste the salt, and adjust if it's less.
- Now add the kofta to it and let it simmer(low heat) for abt a min. Then add crushed kasoori methi and cream. Mix well and switch off the flame.
- Allow it to rest for an at least half and hour so the gravy softens the kofta. Serve.
A quintessential kofta/vegetarian meatballs recipe from the northern part of India. Lauki kofta (Bottle gourd kofta) is one of those festive and delicious recipes from North India! I grew up eating bottle gourd in many forms, in dry sabzi (vegetable preparation), in raita, in dal, in halwa and even in kheer but the one thing I never had was lauki kofta! In curry dishes, Lauki is used as it is or in the form of kofta. It is also added to daals to enhance the flavor of daal.
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