Kofte

Ingredients:

Bottle gourd (ghiya/kaddu)

Gram flour (besan)

Oil

Salt

Red chilli powder

Method :

Grate the bottle gourd , add some salt and keep aside.

Take small quantity of grated bottle gourd in between both the hands to squeeze the extra water and put the squeezed bottle gourd in a big bowl. Once all the extra water is squeezed out of the grated bottle gourd, put a little salt, and chilli powder and mix well.

Then add gram flour to this mixture slowly to make sure the mixture binds well, but doesn't get too dry.

In a pan/kadhai, heat oil on high flame for frying. Make balls out of the bottle gourd mixture prepared above and put them in hot oil one by one. Deep fry till they turn golden brown.