Recipe Text
Ingredients:
For Batter:
- Gram
Flour – 250gms
- Maida
– 50gms
- Salt
to Taste (1/4tsp+1/8tsp)
- Baking
Soda – 1/4tsp
- Water
– As Required (325gms)
- Oil
- 2Tbsps (To Mix with Flours)
- Oil
– For Frying Bondas
For Curry:
- Potatoes
– 750gms
- Green
Chilies 11
- Ginger
– Small Piece
- Cumin
Seeds – 1/4tsp
- Mustard
Seeds – 1/4tsp
- Asafoetida
– A Pinch
- Curry
Leaves – Few
- Chopped
Coriander Leaves – 1Tbsp
- Turmeric
Powder – 1/4tsp
- Salt
– To Taste
- Oil
– 21Tbsps
Preparations:
Wash
potatoes and place them in a bowl. Add water till all the potatoes are
submerged in water. Place this bowl in pressure cooker and cook the potatoes.
After first whistle lower the flame and cook the potatoes for 10 to 12 minutes.
When the pressure cooker cools down remove the bowl and peel the potatoes.
Grind green chilies and ginger to a coarse paste in a mixer grinder. Finely
chop the curry leaves.
Method:
Curry:
Heat
a pan and add oil to it. When oil is hot add mustard seeds and asafoetida and
fry for few seconds. Then add cumin seeds, chopped curry leaves, ginger green
chili paste, turmeric powder and salt. Mix & fry the seasoning well. Then
add boiled & peeled potatoes and mix mashing with the ladle. Add chopped
coriander leaves and mix again. The curry is ready to make bondas.
Spread the curry in a plate to cool.
Batter:
Take
gram flour, maida and salt into a mixing bowl and mix
well with fingers. Add oil and rub with fingers to incorporate the oil into the
flour. Add water slowly and mix to prepare batter of coating consistency. Make
a smooth batter. Batter should be of coating consistency—when finger dipped in
the batter & removed, batter should coat the finger evenly. Keep this
batter aside for 30 minutes.
Making Aloo Bondas:
Heat
a pan and add sufficient oil to fry the bondas. Spread
a paper napkin in a plate and keep it ready. After frying the bondas remove them on to this paper napkin to soak excess
oil. Just before frying add baking soda
to the prepared batter and mix well. See that there are no lumps in the batter.
Wet
fingers and take a portion of the curry into the palm. Form a ball of the taken
curry portion. Similarly make balls from the prepared curry. Drop a ball into
the batter and coat it evenly. Then carefully drop the batter coated curry ball
into the oil and fry on medium heat. Turn the bondas
and fry till they are evenly fried. Fry till the bondas
turn golden in color. Then take out the bondas from
oil with a slotted ladle and place them on the paper napkin which will soak the
excess oil. Similarly fry all the bondas. Serve hot with any chutney or ketchup.
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Vankaya Bajjilu
(Brinjal Fritters):
To
the leftover batter add some red chili powder, salt, cumin seeds, chopped
coriander and mix well.
Take
a brinjal (Chutney Variety) and wash it. Slice the brinjal into even thickness
pieces. Add the brinjal slices to the batter and coat them well with the
batter. Now carefully drop the batter coated brinjal pieces into the hot oil
and fry on medium heat. Turn and fry till the bajias
are golden in color. Drain the bajias on to a paper
napkin to soak excess oil. Serve hot with any chutney or ketchup.
Points To
Remember:
Use
salt and chilies according to taste.
As
soon as the pressure cooker cools down, remove the boiled potatoes from the
cooker and drain all the water. If the boiled potatoes are kept for long time
in the water they were cooked, they absorb some water and become mushy. So
drain the water as soon as they are cooked.
Cool
the potato curry completely before making bondas.
Make
a smooth batter without any lumps. Just before frying bondas
add baking soda and then mix thoroughly.
To prepare curry balls first wet your
palm with water—this will give a smooth textured ball. Observe and learn the
technique of dropping the bondas in oil to avoid tear
drop shaped batter droplets.
Do
not forget to drink two glasses of buttermilk after eating any fried things. Buttermilk
eases the uneasiness caused after eating fried things. Eat limitedly and enjoy
good health.
Enjoy !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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