Sorakaya Kofta Curry / Bottle Gourd Kofta Curry / Lauki Kofta Curry

Make : 14 kofta's
Ingredients For Kofta:

• Sorakaya / Bottle gourd / Lauki- 1.5 cup
• Besan / Senagapindi / Chickpea powder - 3 tbsp
• Ginger-garlic paste - 1/2 tsp
• Red chilli powder - 1/2 tsp
• Cumin powder - 1/4 tsp
• Coriander powder - 1/4 tsp
• Garam Masala - pinch 
• Salt to taste
• Oil to deep fry

Ingredients For Gravy:

• Butter or Oil - 3 tsp
• Onion - 1, small
• Tomatoes - 2
• Cashews - 8
• Poppy seeds/Gasagasalu/Khus-Khus - 1 tbsp
• Ginger-garlic  paste - 1 tbsp
• Red chilli powder - 1 tsp
• Coriander powder - 1 tsp
• Cumin powder - 1/2 tsp
• Turmeric powder - 1/2 tsp
• Sugar - 1/2 tsp (optional)
• Milk - 1/4 cup 
• Salt as per taste
• Garam masala - 1/4 tsp homemade or 1 tsp store bought

Preparing Kofta's:

• Peel the skin from bottle gourd and grate it. Squeeze water from it and add remaining ingredients under kofta except oil and mix well. Besan / chickpea powder can be added regarding to the consistency that we can make balls from the mixture. (Don't  through the water squeezed form bottle gourd, we can use to prepare chapati dough)
• Make lemon size balls and deep fry them in oil till they turn brown and keep aside.

Preparing Gravy:

• Grind onion and tomato separately.
• Soak cashews and poppy seeds using 2 tbsp water for 15 minutes.
• Grind cashews and poppy seeds into paste.
• Heat 2 tbsp oil or butter in the same pan and add onion paste, ginger-garlic paste, turmeric powder and fry till it turns light golden color.
• Add tomato paste and cook for 5 minutes and add poppy seeds-cashew paste and cook until the oil oozes out and gravy leaves the edges, add red chilli powder, cumin-coriander powder, sugar and mix well.

• Add little water and cook until butter or oil oozes out, add milk, garam masala and cook for 2 minutes and switch off the stove.
• While serving add kofta's to the gravy and serve with any Indian bread.