Sweet Boondi Or Bengali Bonde

Name: Boondi
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 30 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 4
Cuisine: Bengali
Ingredients: Gram flour or Besan 1 cup; Water 1/2 cup (adjust to make the smooth batter); Green cardamom pods (ilaichi) 5 to 6 crashed; Yellow, Orange food color 2 to 3 drops if you like ( totally optional); Sugar 1 1/2 cup; Water 1 cup; Rose water 2 to 4 tablespoons

Sweets
Sep 20, 2013
Moumita Ghosh
323 Likes

Oh I just love Bonde. Specially when it is just out of the Sugar Syrup. I am not a great fan of Sweet. Very few sweets are there in my favorite list, and the Boondi or Bonde is one of them. In Bengali ocassion, breakfast is incomplite without Bonde as dessert. With Luchi Or Poories it goes trimendously good. Whenever I got any Invitation for Marraige or Get together or Birthday, I request them to make Bonde for Breakfast Dessert instead of any other sweets. But unfortunatlely Bonde is not available in our City. So I decided to make my own Bonde at home. Specially in Durga Puja, every day breakfast should be with "Luchi, Torkari & Bonde". To preserve the tradition I am sharing the Bonde recipe with all of you. And here it is....

This sweet actually looks like drops Or Boond in Hindi. That is why it is called Boondi. Boondi is made with Bengali gram batter or Chikpea batter. Bengali occasional breakfast is incomplete without "Bonde & Luchi"/"Boondi & Puri".

Details

Yields

4 serving(s)

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Time

Preperation
15 Minutes

Cooking
30 Minutes

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Cooking Level
Easy

Meal Type
Dessert

Cuisine
Bengali

Ingredients of Boondi

For the Batter :

Gram flour or Besan 1 cup
Water 1/2 cup (adjust to make the smooth batter)
Green cardamom pods (ilaichi) 5 to 6 crashed
Yellow, Orange food color 2 to 3 drops if you like ( totally optional)

**For syrup : **

Sugar 1 1/2 cup
Water 1 cup
Rose water 2 to 4 tablespoons

Watch how to make this recipe

Directions to make Boondi in steps

Steps

Making the Sugar Syrup :

Put the water and sugar in a saucepan and bring to a boil on medium-high heat.
When the syrup comes to a boil, turn the heat down to medium and stir to dissolve the sugar. Let it simmer until the syrup is about half thread consistency .
Add rose water to the syrup and cover it.

Making the Bonde :

Now take a bowl and mix the gram flour with water to make a smooth pancake-like batter or slightly thicker than dosa batter.
Now take 2 tablespoons of batter out of the whole batter and put in another small bowl and mix 2 drops of green food color to it and keep aside.
Now take another 2 tablespoons of batter from the whole mixture and add 2 drops of orange food color to it and keep aside.
Finally add 2-3 drops of yellow food color to the main mixture and keep aside. Heat oil in a frying pan on medium high heat.
The frying pan should have at least 1 1/2 inches of oil. Now test if the oil is at the right temperature, drop a pinch of batter into the oil; if it rises immediately without changing color then the oil is ready.
Now take a perforated ladle for making this, and pour some yellow batter onto it and shake the perforated ladle to drop the batter fast into the hot oil.
Now fry them and take them out from the oil with another perforated ladle and immediately soak into the sugar syrup.
Repeat the process for the the remaining batter. While repeating , wipe out the excess batter from the top and back of the ladle used for making boondi.
This will help in getting round shape. When the yellow batter's boondi are done fry the orange colored separately and soak into the syrup together.

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Serving Tips

Serve hot with Luchi Or Bengali Puri

3.00 Good! Rank - 4 Based on 323 reviews