Lauki Muthias- Steamed Bottle gourd Dumplings

Food processors have made life easy. Grating , chopping all time consuming jobs can be done in no time especially during early morning rush when you have to get your children ready for school, prepare their breakfast, lunchbox....
Lauki Muthia makes a healthy breakfast and also can be packed in your child's lunch box.
It was a time consuming dish earlier but now thanks to the chopper instead of grating the bottle gourd and chopping or grinding other vegetables I just put them all together in a chopper to do the job for me.

For the muthias:
1 medium sized bottle gourd
1 onion
2 green chilies
1" piece ginger
1 cup whole wheat flour/aata
1/2 cup beasn/gram flour
1/2 cup semolina/suji
3 tsp sugar
1/2 tsp turmric powder
1/2 tsp sodium bi carbonate
juice of 1 lemon
salt to taste

for the tempering
1 tbsp oil
1 tsp mustard
1 tsp white seasame seeds/til

corriander leaves for garnishing
green chutney to serve

for the muthias:
you can either grate the bottle gourd, chop the onion, chilli and ginger finely
or
put all these things together in an electrical chopper and chop.
Usually the liquid from the grated vegetable is sqeezed out while making muthias but I don't want to squeeze out the vitamins so I skip this part.
Add all the other ingredients and mix.
If the mixture is too moist and diificult to handle then you can add some more wheat flour to it.
Just before steaming its better to check the taste for seasonings as per your appetite.
Now shape like small muthiias using your fist, but gently and either steam in a steamer for 10 min. or microwave on high for 2 min. with a standing time of 1 min.
you can check if the muthias are cooked by inserting a toothpick in the centre if it comes out clean it means the muthias are cooked else cook for some more time.

for the tempering:
Heat oil and add mustard seeds and allow to crackle, now add seasame seeds and switch off the gas.
Apply this on each muthia and serve garnished with corriander leaves and green chutney.