Lauki Nu Muthia
Lauki Nu Muthia is a healthy Gujarati breakfast dish made with bottle gourd, flours and spices. This can be steamed or deep fried and often served for breakfast or as a snack with different chutneys.
Ingredients
For the steamed Muthias
- 2 cups Bottle Gourd
- 1/2 cup Besan / Gram Flour
- 1/2 cup Wheat Flour
- 1/2 cup Rice Flour
- 1 inch Ginger
- 4 nos Green Chillies
- 2 tbsp Coriander leaves
- 1/4 tsp Turmeric powder
- 1/2 tsp Amchoor /Dry Mango Powder
- 1 tsp Sugar
- 1/4 tsp Cooking Soda
- 1 tbsp Cooking Oil
- Salt to taste
For Tempering
- 2 tbsp Cooking Oil
- 1 tsp Mustard Seeds
- 1 tsp Cumin seeds
- 2 tsp Sesame Seeds
- Handful Curry leaves
- 1/4 tsp Asafoetida /Hing
- 1 tsp Lemon Juice
- Coriander leaves for Garnishing
Instructions
For the steamed Muthias
- Wash and peel the outer skin of the bottle gourd, grate in a bowl and let it rest for 5 mins.
- Then squeeze out the excess water from the grated bottle gourd, keep it aside.
- Make a paste of ginger and green chillies. Mince the coriander leaves.
- In a bowl, take the flours along with the grated bottle gourd, salt, oil, green chilli and ginger paste and rest of the ingredients.
- Mix well and let it rest for 10 mins.
- The batter will be very sticky. If you are not able to make cylinders, add little more besan.
- Have the steamer ready with water.
- Grease your hands with oil, make cylinders and place on a greased plate.
- Steam for 15 mins. Let it rest for 10 mins, before transferring to a plate.
For Tempering
- When you are ready to temper, gently cut the muthias into 1/2 inch pieces.
- Heat a nonstick pan with oil, add all the tempering ingredients except lemon, saute for few seconds, till the sesame seeds crackle.
- Add the muthias and saute well to combine.
- Add seasoning if required.
- Finally, squeeze in few drops of lemon and coriander leaves
- Serve hot with coriander chutney or tomato sauce.
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