Sweet Boondi / Meethi Boondi Recipe
A vegetarian Indian recipe with gram flour (besan), pinch baking soda, pinch yellow food colour - optional. Ready in 1h 50m, serves 4.
Curated byAarav Mehta🇮🇳
Instructions
24 steps- 1
To prepare Sweet Boondi/Meethi Boondi Recipe, take gram flour/besan in a sifter and sieve it
gram flour (besan)(1 cup) - 2
In a Mixing bowl, mix gram flour, baking soda with water
gram flour (besan)(1 cup)pinch baking soda(1)water(1/2 cup)water(1/2 cup) - 3
The batter should be little thick, a bit thinner than normal bajji batter
- 4
Take a big ladle full of batter for orange color in a separate small bowl
pinch orange color - optional(1) - 5
Add orange food color to the batter in the small bowl, yellow food color to the batter in the main bowl and mix both well separately
pinch yellow food colour - optional(1)pinch orange color - optional(1) - 6
This is an optional step, only if you are adding food colors
pinch yellow food colour - optional(1)pinch orange color - optional(1) - 7
2 Slotted ladles are needed
- 8
One for making boondi and another for draining boondi from oil
- 9
Now heat oil for deep frying
sunflower oil - to deep fry - 10
Oil should be moderately hot
- 11
To test, drop a pea size batter in the oil, batter should rise immediately without changing color which means oil is ready for frying boondis
pinch orange color - optional(1) - 12
Now hold one slotted ladle just over oil (neither too low nor too high)
- 13
Use another deep ladle to pour batter over slotted ladle
sunflower oil - to deep fry - 14
Pour one ladle full of batter over the slotted ladle and spread in a circular motion by the back of the deep ladle
sunflower oil - to deep fry - 15
The batter will fall drop by drop
- 16
Fry them till little crispy
- 17
Drain and place them on a paper towel to absorb excess oil
- 18
Repeat the process with rest of the batter
- 19
Then make sugar syrup from 3/4 cup sugar & 1/2 cup water of 1 string consistency by bringing it to boil
water(1/2 cup)sugar(3/4 cup)water(1/2 cup) - 20
Add in cardamom powder, mix well to make syrup
- 21
Add the fried yellow and orange boondis into the syrup
pinch yellow food colour - optional(1)pinch orange color - optional(1) - 22
Gently toss them and mix till boondis are well coated in sugar syrup
sugar(3/4 cup) - 23
Let this set for 1-2 hours until the sugar syrup is completely absorbed by Sweet Boondi / Meethi Boondi Recipe and the sugar in the syrup is crystallized
sugar(3/4 cup) - 24
Store Sweet Boondi/Meethi Boondi Recipe in an air-tight container and serve as needed, as asweet munch after meals
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Sweet Boondi / Meethi Boondi Recipe
A vegetarian Indian recipe with gram flour (besan), pinch baking soda, pinch yellow food colour - optional. Ready in 1h 50m, serves 4.
Curated byAarav Mehta🇮🇳
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Directions
24 steps- 1
To prepare Sweet Boondi/Meethi Boondi Recipe, take gram flour/besan in a sifter and sieve it
gram flour (besan)(1 cup) - 2
In a Mixing bowl, mix gram flour, baking soda with water
gram flour (besan)(1 cup)pinch baking soda(1)water(1/2 cup)water(1/2 cup) - 3
The batter should be little thick, a bit thinner than normal bajji batter
- 4
Take a big ladle full of batter for orange color in a separate small bowl
pinch orange color - optional(1) - 5
Add orange food color to the batter in the small bowl, yellow food color to the batter in the main bowl and mix both well separately
pinch yellow food colour - optional(1)pinch orange color - optional(1) - 6
This is an optional step, only if you are adding food colors
pinch yellow food colour - optional(1)pinch orange color - optional(1) - 7
2 Slotted ladles are needed
- 8
One for making boondi and another for draining boondi from oil
- 9
Now heat oil for deep frying
sunflower oil - to deep fry - 10
Oil should be moderately hot
- 11
To test, drop a pea size batter in the oil, batter should rise immediately without changing color which means oil is ready for frying boondis
pinch orange color - optional(1) - 12
Now hold one slotted ladle just over oil (neither too low nor too high)
- 13
Use another deep ladle to pour batter over slotted ladle
sunflower oil - to deep fry - 14
Pour one ladle full of batter over the slotted ladle and spread in a circular motion by the back of the deep ladle
sunflower oil - to deep fry - 15
The batter will fall drop by drop
- 16
Fry them till little crispy
- 17
Drain and place them on a paper towel to absorb excess oil
- 18
Repeat the process with rest of the batter
- 19
Then make sugar syrup from 3/4 cup sugar & 1/2 cup water of 1 string consistency by bringing it to boil
water(1/2 cup)sugar(3/4 cup)water(1/2 cup) - 20
Add in cardamom powder, mix well to make syrup
- 21
Add the fried yellow and orange boondis into the syrup
pinch yellow food colour - optional(1)pinch orange color - optional(1) - 22
Gently toss them and mix till boondis are well coated in sugar syrup
sugar(3/4 cup) - 23
Let this set for 1-2 hours until the sugar syrup is completely absorbed by Sweet Boondi / Meethi Boondi Recipe and the sugar in the syrup is crystallized
sugar(3/4 cup) - 24
Store Sweet Boondi/Meethi Boondi Recipe in an air-tight container and serve as needed, as asweet munch after meals
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