Wednesday, May 20, 2015

Aloo Bonda

Aloo Bonda is a famous south indian snack made with potatoes. Its a kids favorite snack. Now we will see how to make aloo bonda or potato bonda.



Ingredients:

Potato - 3
Onion - 1
Green Chilly - 2
Turmeric Pwdr - a pinch

To Temper:

Mustard - 3/4 tsp
Oil - 2 tsp
Urad dhal - 1/4 tsp
Curry leaves - few

For batter:

Besan Flour - 1/2 cup
Rice Flour    - 1/4 cup
Chilli powder - 1 tspn
Baking Soda - a pinch

Salt - as needed
Oil for frying.

Method:

1. Pressure cook potatoes, peel the skin and mash it. 

2. Heat oil in a pan, add mustard seeds, when it splutters, add finely chopped onions, green chillies and saute for a few minutes until onion turns transparent.



3. Add turmeric and add mashed potato, mix well and switch off the flame. 


4. After it cools a little, make even sized balls out of it and keep it ready.  


5. Mix besan, rice flour, chilli powder, salt and cooking soda.

6. Add water to make a thick batter. The batter should not be too thick nor too thin.



7. Heat oil in a kadai. To check if the oil is hot enough to fry the bondas, drop 1/2 tsp of batter into the oil, if it raises to the surface immediately, then the oil is ready to fry the bondas. Now reduce the flame to medium.

8.Dip the balls in the batter, so that it is well coated on all the sides.

9. Carefully drop the balls into the hot oil and fry the bondas until they turn light golden color. 

10. Remove from oil and drain on a  kitchen paper.



Serve hot with coconut chutney.

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