Hello everybody, I hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, lauki kofta curry. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Lauki Kofta Curry is one of the most well liked of recent trending meals on earth. It is simple, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. It is enjoyed by millions every day. They’re nice and they look fantastic. Lauki Kofta Curry is something that I’ve loved my whole life.
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. Lauki kofta recipe with step by step photos. Lauki kofta is a light tomato-based delicious gravy The koftas along with the curry taste really yummy. My first impression on having the curry was - the.
To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook lauki kofta curry using 27 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Lauki Kofta Curry:
- Take 4-5 tbsp Cooking Oil
- Get 1 Large Bay Leaf
- Get 1 tsp Cumin Seeds
- Take 2 Cloves
- Take 1 Piece Cinnamon Stick
- Make ready 2 tbsp Kashmiri Red Chilli Powder
- Get 2 tbsp Coriander Powder
- Get 1 tsp Garam Masala Powder
- Prepare 1/2 tsp Turmeric Powder
- Take 1 tsp Kasuri Methi
- Take as per taste Salt
- Prepare 2 cups Tomato Puree (3 Tomatoes)
- Make ready 1 tbsp Coriander Leaves (For Garnish)
- Prepare 1 tbsp Fresh Cream (For Garnish)
- Take To be Ground into a Smooth Paste:
- Make ready 3 Onions
- Prepare 3 Long Green Chillies
- Take 6 Cloves Garlic
- Get 1 Inch Ginger
- Prepare For the Lauki Kofta:
- Make ready 1 small Bottlegourd/Lauki (Grated)
- Prepare 200 gms Besan/Chickpea Flour
- Take 1 tsp Kashmiri Red Chilli Powder
- Take 1/2 tsp Turmeric Powder
- Make ready as per taste Salt
- Make ready as required Water (1 or 2 cups accordingly)
- Take as required Oil (For Deep Frying)
These kofta are not deep fried but pan fried in a kuzhi paniyaram pan and has a lip smacking curry too. Lauki Kofta Curry is a simple recipe, with which cooking becomes not only less tedious but also healthier as the kofta are steamed rather than fried. Cook the gravy on a medium flame to avoid. Curry Preparation for Lauki Kofta: Heat oil in a pan, add cumin seeds and fry it for few seconds on medium flame.
Steps to make Lauki Kofta Curry:
- Firstly, wash the bottle gourd. Peel off the skin. Grate it and add it to a large mixing bowl. To it, add besan, kashmiri red chilli powder, turmeric powder, salt and water. Mix well to make a smooth paste.
- Heat oil in a deep frying pan on medium flame. Gently, drop in spoonful of batter and fry on both sides till golden brown. Drain on paper towels to absorbs the extra oil and set aside.
- To make a paste for the gravy, add onions, green chillies, ginger and garlic to a blender and blend into a smooth paste. Set aside.
- Blend the tomatoes into a puree and set aside. 3 tomatoes depending on its size, will give 2 cups tomato puree.
- In a pan, heat 4-5 tablespoons oil. Add bay leaves, cumin seeds, cloves and cinnamon and allow it to sizzle for few seconds.
- Next add the ground onion ginger garlic green chillies paste and saute it well till the raw smell leaves and water content reduced totally.
- Now add in the masalas. Ie. Kashmiri Red Chilli Powder, coriander powder, turmeric powder, garam masala powder and kasuri methi. Saute it well till the masalas are cooked.
- Add in the tomato puree and saute till oil appears at its surface.
- Add water according to required consistency and allow it to boil till you see traces of oil at the surface.
- Add the fried lauki kofta and salt. Cover and cook for few minutes.
- Garnish with coriander leaves and fresh cream.
- Delicious Lauki Kofta Curry is ready. Serve it immediately with roti, paratha, rice etc.
Cook the gravy on a medium flame to avoid. Curry Preparation for Lauki Kofta: Heat oil in a pan, add cumin seeds and fry it for few seconds on medium flame. Reduce the flame to low, add red chilli powder and turmeric powder and mix it. I couldn't click pictures of the kofta curry on that day as i was in a hurry to finish my work. For making Lauki Kofta Curry recipe, Lauki or bottle gourd is grated and mixed with spices and besan (gram flour).
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