ALOO BONDA RECIPE

If you or anybody in your home is a potato lover, this is the perfect snack. It will be easier to make potato bondas if you already have boiled potatoes in your hands.

Preparation Time: 15 minutes

Cooking Time: 15 minutes

Servings: makes 15 bondas

Ingredients:

• 3 potatoes (medium-sized)
• 1onion (finely chopped)
• 1 cup gram flour (besan)
• 1  tsp ginger-garlic paste
• 2 green chillies (deseeded and finely chopped)
• Coriander leaves (finely chopped)
• 1/2 tsp red chilli powder
• 1/4 tsp turmeric powder
• Pinch of carom seeds
• Salt to taste
• 2 cups cooking oil for deep frying

Preparation Instructions:

• Boil the potatoes, peel them, mash and set aside.
• Heat 1 tsp oil in a pan and saute onions, ginger-garlic paste and green chillies till onions become golden brown.
• Add mashed potatoes, salt and coriander leaves. Mix well, cook for 2 minutes and let it cool.
• When the mixture cools, make small balls and set aside.
• Make a thick batter of besan, red chilli powder, turmeric, carom seeds and salt.
• Heat oil, dip the potato balls into besan batter and carefully drop them into the hot oil.
• Fry bondas till they become golden brown. Fry in batches. Drain and set aside in kitchen tissue towel.
• Serve them with tea and mint-coriander chutney.