Lauki Kofta Curry | Vegan Meatballs in Indian style
This is a vegetable meatballs recipe made with bottle gourd cooked in Indian style and in Indian curry. This is a quick and healthy vegan meatball recipe.
Servings: 4 Servings
Ingredients
For Kofta or meatballs
- 2 cup Lauki / bottle gourd peeled & grated
- ¾ - 1 cup Chickpea flour or gram flour
- ½ small Onion finely chopped
- 1 tsp Ginger Garlic Paste (freshly crushed)
- ½ tsp Salt or as per taste
- 1 tsp Coriander Powder
- 1 tsp Red Chilli Powder
For Curry Gravy
- 1 medium Onion
- 2 medium Tomato chopped or pureed
- 1 Green Chilli finely chopped
- 1 tsp Ginger Garlic Paste
- 3 tbsp Refined oil
- 1 tsp Cumin seeds
- 1 tsp Red Chilli Powder
- 2 tsp Coriander Powder
- ½ tsp Turmeric powder
- ½ tsp Garam Masala
- 1 tsp Kasuri Methi (dried fenugreek leaves)
Instructions
- Grate the peeled lauki and add a pinch of salt. Let it rest for 5 minutes.
- Then squeeze out excess water with the help of a sieve and muslin cloth.
- Take 1 cup of besan/ gram flour in a mixing bowl. Add grated lauki, finely chopped ginger, garlic, green chillies, salt, coriander powder and red chilli powder. Mix all ingredients well.
- No need to add extra water as lauki contains enough water to make the mixture moist.
- We need a mixture of dough consistency to make balls.
- Heat oil in a deep frying pan on medium to high flame.
- Once oil is hot, drop ball sized mixture into oil.
- Deep fry till the balls changed their color to golden brown.
- Keep flame in medium-high heat as on high flame the outer side will get over brown while the inner part will still remain uncooked.
- Take out the fried lauki balls and place on a tissue to remove excess oil.
- Take another frying pan. Heat 4 tbsp refined oil.
- Add 1 tsp cumin seed and let it crackle. Then add chopped ginger-garlic, green chili and sauté till onions cooked translucent.
- Add chopped tomatoes and sauté till cooked soft.
- Add all dry spices (coriander powder, cumin powder, turmeric powder, red chilli powder) to the pan and sauté.
- Add 1 cup of water to it and mix well. Season with salt. Add crushed Kasuri methi powder.
- Keep it on high flame. Let it simmer for 5 mins or till little thicker consistency.
- Remove from heat once the gravy is cooked completely. Then add the lauki koftas (dumplings/ meatballs) to the gravy and cover with the lid.
- Once done sprinkle garam masala, mix well and garnish with coriander leaves and serve with any flatbreads or rice.