Ingredients
- 1 lbs of lauki
- 4 tbsp besan
- 2 small onions
- 2 small tomato
- 1 tsp ginger garlic paste
- salt to taste
- 2 tsp red mirchi powder
- 4 tsp dhaniya powder
- 1 tsp garam masala
- 5 pieces of cardamom
- 2 peces each of badam and kaju
- 2 tsp of malai
- 2 pieces of laung
- small piece of dalchini
- 5 green chillies
Directions
Kofta balls:
- Grate the lauki either in a foo processor or on a kadookas
- Add besan in the grated lauki, mix it well with hands preferably
- Take 1 tbsp oil in a ladai and add the besan laki paste to it
- Mix the paste well in the kadai till it becomes dry, it should be good to make kofta balls from, like a dough.
- Add salt, mirchi, dhaniya powder, ginger garlic paste to the dough and mix it again.
- Now take out the dough and spread it on a plate
- Make small kofta balls from the dough as soon as it cools down a little.
- Keep these balls aside
gravy:
- Grind the onion into a paste
- Grind the tomato, cardomam, dalchini, laung(cloves), kaju, badam & malai all together in the grinder and keep it separate.
- Take 2 tbsp of oil and add green chili cut into small pieces to it
- add the onion paste to it
- add the tomato paste to the onion once it turns golden brown
- add mirchi powder, dhaniya, garam masala and namak to it.
- Fry the masala till the paste leaves oil and we know that its cooked well.
- Add a tsp of malai after the gravy is prepared.
- Keep the koftas separate and add as many as required to the gravy at the time of serving, boil it after adding the koftas.
- Garnish it with some green dhaniya and serve it hot.