Lauki Thepla Recipe | How to make Lauki Thepla (Gujarati Cuisine)

Hi friends, Thank you friends for visiting the website. Today's recipe is Lauki Thepla. Thepla is a Gujarati cuisine recipe. It is made with whole wheat flour mixed with choosen vegetable like Methi or Lauki. Lauki means bottle gourd. I have learned bottle gourd thepla recipe from a friend of mine. I usually avoid making North Indian cuisine. But when I tasted the lauki thepla recipe at my friend's place I liked it very much and I tried it at home also. My people also liked it very much, so from then onwards it became a part in our menu. Though I don't prepare lauki thepla regularly but whenever we feel like having North Indian cuisine I prepare bottle gourd thepla. It can also be a best lunch box recipe which anyone can like it.
Sometimes we (South Indians) get confused between thepla and paratha. After making them so many times I learned that the preparation for them is completely difference. To make thepla we chop or grate the vegetable and combine it with the whole wheat flour to make the dough. But to make parathas we need to have the dough and stuffing seperately. And we can make plain paratas also.
Find other recipes with bottle gourd like:
Lauki Kofta Curry
Sorakaya Vadalu
Sorakaya Atlu or Lauki Dosa

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Lauki Thepla Recipe | How to make Lauki Thepla (Gujarati Cuisine)
Author: Sailaja Angara
Preparation Time: 20 M
Cooking time: 5 Mins for each Thepla
Servings: 6 People

Lauki Thepla -- A simple, delicious and healthy recipe for kids lunch box.

Ingredients:

3 Cups Whole Wheat Flour

2 Cups Lauki/ Bottle Gourd(Grated)

2 Green Chillies

Salt to Taste

1/2 Tbsp Red Chilli Powder

1 Tsp Coriander Powder

1 Tsp Garam Masala

1 Tsp Roasted Cumin Powder

1/4 Cup Coriander Leaves

2 Tbsp Curd

Oil for making theplas

Procedure:

1. Chop green chillies and coriander leaves. Peel the skin of lauki and grate it. Remove the flesh and seeds in the middle.
2. In a wide bowl, add whole wheat flour and grated lauki/bottle gourd.
3. Add salt, red chilli powder, garam masala, roasted cumin powder and coriander powder, and chopped green chillies.
4. Lastly add curd and coriander leaves and combine them well.
5. Do not add water.
6. Mix them all. Add 1 or 2 tbsp of water if necessary.
7. Let the dough be like that of the plain paratha.
8. Add 2 tbsp oil and knead the dough well for 2 minutes.
9. Take a lemon size dough, dust it with little dry flour.
10. Roll it into 5 or 6" round disc using rolling pin. or as big or small as you want with 1 or 2mm thickness.
11. Heat roti tawa, place the rolled thepla on it.
12. Allow this to cook lauki thepla on low flame till golden brown spots appear.
13. Flip lauki thepla and cook in the same way the other side also. Add a spoonful of oil over the lauki thepla.
14. Press gently on the thepla with the spatula. Flip it, add oil and press gently to cook the thepla fully.
15. Serve lauki thepla with any spicy curry or pickle.