Bottle Gourd Idli / Lauki Ki Idli

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I am Sangeeta Agrawal and heartily welcome you at my food blog.

# Today I am sharing a super healthy and easy recipe of "Idli'...all time favourite food of every one in the family. Because it is a light food to digest and easy to make.

# If you add bottle gourd in idli...it will be more healthy and nutritious. Often our children don't like to eat lauki ( one of the most healthy vegetables ) in daily meal..so you can feed lauki to kids and even to your spouse in this way.

# Let us start the recipe of..

 "Bottle Gourd Idli"

# Cook Time....25 minutes

# Prep Time...10 minutes

# serving...4

# Cuisine... Indian

# Course...At any meal... breakfast, lunch or dinner or as a side dish

# Ingredients For "The Bottle Gourd Idli"

1. Semolina....200 gram

2. Bottle Gourd....250 gram...150 gram puree....half bowl

3. Beated curd....1 bowl...200 gram.

4. Spinach puree...2 Table spoon for a nice colour

5. Salt to taste...1/2 Table spoon

6. Some coriander leaves for garnishing

7. Some Tomatoes slices..( optional )

8. Fruits salt...2 spoon...eno fruit Salt

#  Method Of Making....

#  Firstly,  wash the bottle gourd, Peel its skin and cut it  into thick pieces.

# Transfer these bottle gourd pieces in the pressure cooker to get boil with a cup of water on the high flame.

Take 5 whistles on full flame and off the flame.

Let the pressure down by itself.

# As it cools down... drain out the water of boiled lauki in a soup strainer and let it cool.

Then make the puree of boiled bottle gourd in the mixer jar.

# Prepare a little puree of spinach for a nice natural colour ( palak ) by blanching spinach in the fast boiling water.  You can make required amount of puree of spinach for the " Palak Paneer" or "Palak Besan Paneer Cofta"....and in the next meal....you can use it as I did in this recipe.

# Now keep ready semolina and beated curd.

#  Every thing is ready....so  take a big pan or bowl and add semolina with bottle gourd puree, spinach puree, beated curd and Salt to taste.

Just mix well with a spoon and let it rest for 20 minutes.

# After that...beat the semolina mixture well. If needed you can add 2 spoon water only.

# Get ready the steamer to cook idli.

For this, pour 1 1/2 glass water ( 600 ml.) in the idli cooker and place it on the high flame to boil.

# Meanwhile...Grease the moulds of idli with oil so that idli can be seperated easily after cooking.

As the water starts boiling...just add 1 1/2 spoon eno fruit  ( more than 1 packet eno ) Salt in the idli batter with a spoon of water to activate it fastly.

# pour the idli batter in the moulds of idl stand with the help of a spoon

Tap the idli stand with light hands to even the batter.

# you can place a thin slices of tomatoes in the upper or lower side of few idlis for making it more tempting.

# Let the idli cook on the full high flame for 13 minutes and cook more 13 minutes on the medium flame till soft and fluffy.

It will take 10 minutes extra to cook than the normal semolina idli..

because we have added vegetables.

# Just check the idli inserting a knife ..if it is clean then idli is cooked or if it is not clean then  let it cook for minutes more.

# Off the flame and let it cool down for 5 minutes and then seperate it with your hands or with a clean knife.

In this way, "Bottle Gourd Idli"is ready to enjoy.

Just serve it with hot Sambhar or you can fry it with chopped onions, tomatoes, green chillies etc.

# Things To Consider..

1. In this recipe...you can add the tadka of mustard seeds, Curry' leaves with chana and urad dal in the idli batter as choice.

But mostly children don't like its bites so adjust accordingly.

2. The idli batter should be little thick and beated well...it helps in making idli fluffy.

3. This "Lauki Idli" takes more time to cook than normal idli. 

In the starting...you will feel that it is little sticky but as it cools down...it is amazing.

so have patience but the results are fine, delicious and healthy.

# Garnish very thin tomatoes slices without its juice over the idli...it will help in maintaining the shape of idli and cook well.

# For seperating idli easily...just take cold water in a bowl from the refrigerator...dip your fingers in it....and seperate the hot  idlis with wet hands.

Without sticking in the Idli stand..you can seperate it comfortably.

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