Thursday, March 28, 2024

 

Bonda

Ingredients:

Potato 200 Gms
Chilli powder ½ teaspoon
Onion 1 large
Green chillies 4
Mustard seeds ½ teaspoon
Gram Flour 1 cup
Rice flour 1 tablespoons
Turmeric powder ½ teaspoon
Bicarbonate of soda 1 pinch
Curry leaves 6
Salt to taste
Oil for frying

Method:

Wash and peel potatoes and boil them in water, and mash coarsely.

Dice the onions and cut dry and green chillies into smaller pieces.

Heat mustard seeds in a hot pan, when popping add little oil and add onions, one pinch of turmeric powder and fry until the onions are golden and add green chillies and fry further.

Now mix the mashed potato, curry leaves and salt into this mixture and stir, adding little water if necessary to obtain a well blended mixture. Remove from fire and leave it to cool.

Make the batter from rice flour and gram flour.

Mix rice flour, gram flour and one pinch of turmeric powder, bicarbonate of soda and water and mix well without lumps to a thick batter.

Make lemon sized balls out of the potatoes mixture and dip this in the batter.

Deep fry in hot oil in a pan until they are golden brown. 

Remove and drain oil.

Serve hot.