Lauki Muthiya | How To Make Doodhi Muthiya | Dudhi Na Muthia

Lauki Muthiya- a delicious healthy steamed snack made with bottle gourd

Lauki Muthiya , Dudhi Muthiya is a very popular snack from Gujarat. It is a very healthy and nutritious snack. Muthiya can be made with so many different vegetables. It is healthy as it is steamed not fried. You can steam it and then use it and if you prefer you can temper it in just little oil. It is served as a snack or breakfast and also sold as a street food in road side shops and stalls.

For making muthiya grated bottle gourd, gram flour, semolina and few herbs and spices are mixed and a soft dough is made. Then it is rolled into a log or pressed between the fist and make rolls. Muthiya literally means fist so pressed between fist to make small rolls. Then the log or rolls are steamed to cook. You can use any steamer , idli cooker or rice cooker to steam the rolls.

The recipe seems quite simple but the ratio should be perfect else either the muthiya become too hard or dry or become too soggy. After steaming the rolls are sliced and pan fried in little oil in a flavourful tadka OR you can eat it hot without any tadka or pan frying for a oil free healthy version, choice is yours , taste great both ways.

In an hour you can make a lot of muthiyas. It stays well in the refrigerator after steaming and you can heat them in microwave and then temper them when you want to serve.

How to make perfect lauki muthiya-

• Choose fresh tender lauki for making muthiya. Over ripe hard lauki with ripe seeds is not suitable for making muthiya. Peel and grate lauki and then try to squeeze some extra water from lauki.
• Add coarse wheat flour, gram flour and semolina to make the dough. You can also add multigrain flour OR jawar ka atta in it to make it more healthier.
• Add crushed green chili and ginger paste, salt, chili powder, sugar, lemon juice ,fresh coriander turmeric, asafoetida, soda bi carb and some curd  is added to add flavor in the muthiya.
• Grated lauki, flours and spices are mixed together and a medium soft dough is made and then shaped into small rolls or logs .
• The rolls are placed  in a greased plate and steamed in a steamer for about 30 minutes approx or till they are cooked perfectly.
• The muthiyas are sliced when they are cool down and tempered in a flavorful tadka and served with chai and chutney or ketchup.

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Lauki Muthiya

Lauki Muthiya- a delicious healthy steamed snack made with bottle gourd Course Appetizer, Breakfast, Side Dish, snacks/startersCuisine Gujarati CuisineKeyword dumplings, healthy snack, lauki muthiya, muthiya, steamed snacks Prep Time 10 minutes minutesCook Time 30 minutes minutes Servings 5 person Author Anjana Chaturvedi

Equipment

• steamer

Ingredients

• 2.5 cup Bottle Gourd / Lauki grated
• 1 cup Whole Wheat Flour / Atta
• 3/4 cup Gram flour / Besan
• 3/4 cup Semolina / Sooji
• 2 Green Chillies / Hari Mirch minced
• 1 tbsp Ginger / Adrak grated
• 1/2 tsp Baking Soda
• 2 tsp Sugar / Chini
• 2.5 tsp Lemon Juice / Nimbu Ka Ras
• pinch Asafoetida / Hing powder
• 1.5 tsp Red Chilli powder / Laal mirch powder
• 1 tsp Coriander Powder / Dhaniya Powder
• 1/2 tsp Turmeric Powder / Haldi Powder
• to taste Salt / Namak
• 2 tbsp Cooking Oil
• 1/4 cup Yogurt/Curd
• 1 tsp pickle masala powder/ sambhar masala optional

tempering/ tadka

• 2 tbsp Cooking Oil
• 2 tsp Mustard Seeds / Rai *
• 1 tbsp White sesame seeds /til
• 1/4 tsp Asafoetida / Hing powder
• 12 Curry Leaves / Kadi Patta
• 4 Green Chillies / Hari Mirch slit lengthwise

garnish

• 2 tbsp Fresh Coriander / Cilantro / Hara Dhaniya
• 2 tbsp fresh coconut grated
• 1.5 tbsp Lemon Juice / Nimbu Ka Ras

Instructions

• Peel the bottle gourd and grate it. Try to squeeze out as much as water you can from the vegetable and keep it in a large mixing bowl.
• Do not discard the squeezed out water. save it as we use this water to make muthiya dough OR use to make your chapati dough.
• In the bowl of grated bottle gourd add all the spices, yogurt, oil , soda and mix together.( except the tempering ingredients)
• Now mix wheat flour, gram flour and semolina in this mixture and mix everything to make a medium soft dough.
• You can add the squeezed water from bottle gourd only if needed.
• Grease a steamer plate with some oil and also grease your palms with oil.
• Make small rolls with your palms or make long cylinder shaped rolls and keep in the steamer plate , keep some distance between the rolls.
• Add water in the steamer and when water start boiling place the steamer plate in it and Steam for about 20-25 minutes and then check by inserting a toothpick, if it comes out clean then they are done else steam further for 1o minutes.
• Remove the muthiya rolls from the steamer and let them cool down slightly and then slice into around 1/2 inch thick slices.
• Heat 2 tbsp oil in a pan and then add mustard seeds, sesame seeds, asafoetida, curry leaves and the sliced green chilies and then add 2 tbsp water in it and mix.
• Add the sliced muthiya pieces and mix gently , now cover with a lid and simmer for 2 minutes.now open the lid and stir fry for a minute.
• Switch off the heat and add chopped fresh coriander, lemon juice and grated coconut and mix.
• Serve with tea, tamarind chutney ,green chutney or coconut chutney and enjoy !

Notes

TIPS-

• The proportion of flour should be almost equal to the grated vegetables.
• Curd and oil is added to make soft muthiya's
• Addition of soda is must for making soft muthiya.
• Dough should be soft not tight else muthiya also become dense and hard.
• Slice the muthiya when it become cool else it may crumble.
• After making the dough, immediately steam it else it may start releasing water and become loose to handle.
• You can eat them without adding in the tempering for a healthy zero oil version.
• Can also add few other grated vegetables with bottle gourd for variation.
• You can adjust the quantity of red chili and green chili as per your taste preference.

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