Light Lauki Bottle Gourd Soup
A wholesome Indian recipe crafted for health-conscious eating: nutritious, delicious, and easy to make at home.
Bottle gourd simmered with mild spices and blended smooth — a light lauki soup for dinner resets.
Lauki soup is a gentle, mild bowl. Bottle gourd is cooked with a little onion and garlic, blended and finished with pepper and lemon. It is a simple dinner soup.
Ingredients
How to Make It
Sauté aromatics; add lauki and water.
Cook soft; blend smooth.
Season with pepper and lemon.
Nutrition per serving
* Approximate values per serving
Health Benefits
Very low-calorie hydrating soup. Ideal weight-loss starter or light dinner.
Lauki is mostly water, so the soup is light and easy. Pepper and lemon give it enough flavour that you need very little oil.
Pro Tips
- →Don’t oversalt.
- →Blend silky.
- →Serve warm.
- →Peel the lauki and discard the seedy centre if it is mature.
- →Taste the raw lauki first. A bitter one will spoil the soup.
- →Add the lemon after taking the soup off the heat.
A calorie note
Most of the calories in this dish come from a few ingredients. For reference, per 100 g: Cooking oil: about 884 kcal (about 40 kcal per teaspoon). Measure these with a spoon or scale, because small changes here move the total more than anything else. Values are rounded from USDA FoodData Central and the Indian Food Composition Tables (IFCT 2017), as of 13 Oct 2026, and vary by variety and by table. General information, not medical advice.
Variations
- 1Add moong.
- 2Ginger.
- 3Add a spoon of moong dal while cooking for a thicker, more filling soup.
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