Lauki Dhokla I Health Bottle Gourd Dhokla Recipe
Lauki Dhokla- a healthy steamed snack made with bottle gourd, semolina and yogurt.
Servings: 8 person
Equipment
- steamer pan
Ingredients
- 1 cup Bottle gourd/Lauki /Doodhi finely chopped
- 1 cup Semolina/Cream of Wheat/Sooji
- 3/4 cup Sour curd
- 2 tbsp Fresh Coriander / Cilantro / Hara Dhaniya
- 3 Green Chillies / Hari Mirch
- 1/2 inch Ginger / Adrak
- 1.5 tsp Eno fruit salt
- to taste Salt / Namak
- pinch Sugar / Chini
Tadka
- 2 tsp Cooking Oil
- 1.5 tsp Mustard Seeds / Rai *
- 1 tsp White sesame seeds /til
- pinch Asafoetida / Hing powder
- 8 Curry Leaves / Kadi Patta
- 4 Green Chillies / Hari Mirch slit lengthwise
Instructions
- Wash and peel bottle gourd and chop into fine pieces
- In a bowl add curd and semolina , mix and make a thick batter , add some water if needed.
- If the curd is not sour then add some lemon juice in the batter.
- Now grind together- bottle gourd, green chilies, ginger and fresh coriander and make a fine smooth paste.
- Now add this paste in the semolina batter, add 2 tsp oil, salt and sugar and let it rest for 15minutes.
- After 15 minutes check the consistency of the batter , it should be of pouring consistency like idli batter, add some water if its thick and if become too watery then add some semolina.
- Boil water in the steamer and grease the plates in which dhoklas will be steamed.
- Now add eno in the batter and mix well, pour the batter in the plates, cover the pan and steam for around 15 minutes on high heat.(it will make 2 plates of dhokla with this batter)
- Check by inserting a knife or a toothpick in the dhokla, if it come out clean then its done.
- Take out the dhokla plates from the steamer and let it rest for 10 minutes.
- Cut into your desired shapes.
- Heat oil in a small pan and add mustard seeds, sesame seeds, asafoetida, curry leaves and slit green chilies and fry.
- When done add the tadka over the dhokla, garnish with fresh coriander and coconut.
- Serve with green chutney or coconut chutney.