Bengali Style Sweet Boondi Or Bonde
Boondi
Oh I just love sweet boondi (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 occasion, breakfast is incomplete without Bonde as dessert. With Luchi Or Poories it goes tremendously good. Whenever I got any Invitation for Marriage or Get together or Birthday, I request them to make Bonde for Breakfast Dessert instead of any other sweets. But unfortunately 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....
What is Sweet Boondi Or Bonde?
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". Sweet Boondi is a very popular Indian sweet where small fritters made with chickpea flour is dunked in sugar syrup. It is vegan (if not fried in ghee or clarified butter), gluten-free, dairy-free, nuts-free Indian sweet dish, and is hugely popular during Indian weddings and festivals.
Details
Ingredients for Boondi
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Preperation steps for Boondi
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 :
First sieve the gram flour through a large strainer to remove any hard particles.
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.
Now to make Boondi Laddu please refer myBoondi Ke Laddoo. You can also prepareDorbesh Or Bengali Style Boondi Laddu
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Serving Tips
- Serve hot boondi or bonde with Luchi Or Bengali Puri.
- Serve boondi or bonde with murmura or muri.
- You can serve boondi or bonde on the top of curd even in a glass of milk.
Notes
- For perfect boondi or bonde you can sieve the besan to remove any hard particles of the besan.
- You can add kesar for the natural color.
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