Dudhi Muthia

Muthia's are all time favourite at My home. Easy to make and very healthy, My Mom loves making different kinds of Muthia for us. This is one of such dish, Dudhi (Bottle Gourd) Muthia, it comes out so tasty and full of flavours. 

You may either deep or shallow fry it or add tadka over the steam muthia to lower the oil content. As such they taste amazing without any tempering or frying.

  
Ingredients: (Makes approx. 3 rolls)

• 2 Cups Grated Dudhi (Bottle Gourd)

• 2 Cups Wheat Flour

• 1 Cup Gram Flour (Besan)

• 4 tsp Red Chilli Powder

• 1 tsp Cumin Powder

• 2 tsp Coriander Powder

• 1 tsp Turmeric

• 1 tsp Sesame Seeds

• 1/2 tsp Sugar (Optional)

• Salt as per taste

• Water to knead the dough

• Oil to fry

Method:

• Remove the skin of dudhi (bottle gourd) and grate it, remove as much excess water as you can after grating. Add red chili powder, coriander & cumin powder, sesame seeds, turmeric powder, salt and sugar.

• Mix all the ingredients well and check for seasoning. Now add wheat flour and besan (gram flour) and start kneading the dough.

• Do not add excess water, due to salt dudhi (bottle gourd) will leave sufficient amount of water. So without adding any extra water first, mix all the ingredients.Incase your batter is too dry then only add little water as per required.
  

• Knead a soft dough, this dough.

• Now shape the dough into cylindrical shape and apply little oil over it.

• Place these rolls onto a sieved plate & steam for 20 minutes.

• After 20 minutes, take out the rolls and keep aside to cool.

• Once cooled, cut them into half inch disc and deep or shallow fry into hot oil.

• Dudhi Mutia (Bottle Gourd Muthia) are ready.

• Serve them hot with cup of garma garam Chai (Indian Tea).   

Note: Incase you don't want to fry these muthia's, you may make tempering of mustard seeds and asafoetida (hing) in hot oil along with 4-5 curry leaves and pour this tempering over these muthia. Garnish with coriander leaves and scrapped coconut and serve.