It takes almost 30 minutes to prepare lauki ki kofte.
Ingredients required:
Lauki (bottle gourd)- 2 cups
Besan (Chickpea flour)- 2 tsp
Onions- 1 piece
Tomato- 3 piece
Ginger garlic paste- ½ tsp
Salt to taste
Red chili powder- ½ tsp
Coriander powder- ½ tsp
Garam masala- ¼ tsp
Cardamom- 2 pieces
Laung- 2 pieces
Green chillies- 2 pieces
Asafetida- 1 pinch
Oil- 5 tbsp
Method of Preparation:
1. Peel outer layer of lauki and then grate it.
2. Drain out water by pressing grated lauki with hands.
3. Add besan, salt, red chilli powder in grated lauki.
4. Mix everything well with hands to form even batter.
5. Take 4 tbsp oil in a pan and heat it.
6. Drop spoonfuls batter in heated oil.
7. Fry till they become brown in color.
8. Take them out on tissue paper to remove extra oil.
9. Keep them aside.
10. Take a container and add tomatoes, onion, green chilies, cardamom and laung to it.
11. Grind entire contents into a fine paste by adding a cup of water.
12. Now take 1 tbsp oil in a pan and heat it.
13. Add to it 1 pinch asafetida and ginger garlic paste to it.
14. Cook for two minutes.
15. Add tomato paste into it.
16. Add coriander powder, red chili powder, garam masala and salt in it.
17. Cook till the mixture leaves oil.
You can add koftas to the gravy at the time of serving the hot curry.
Recipe by: Sandeep Agarwal (Howrah, Kolkata)
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