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Meethi boondi

Servings:
Preparation time: 10 minutes.
Frying time: 12 minutes.
cooling time: 30 minutes – 1 hour.
Total time: 22 minutes.

The joy of sharing sweets during festival has no bounds. Holi means variety of sweets and Namkin, fritters, chat etc…

Today I am going to upload the ‘Meethi boondi’…

Excellent flavour and eye catching…

‘Meethi boondi’ is an authentic sweet of Indian cuisine. In the festival of Holi, it is used as a Prasad in the Holika dahan day along with Murmura (puffed rice).

Ingredients:

For boondi batter:

Besan: 200 gm.
Rice flour: 1 table spoon
Meetha soda/cooking soda: 1 pinch
Food Colour:
Water: ½ cup
Ghee (clarified butter): for deep frying

For sugar syrup:

Sugar: 200 gm.
Water: ½ cup
Green Cardamom: 5-6 no.
Cashew nuts: 10-12 no.
Raisins: 15-20 no.
Melon seed: 1 tablespoon

Preparation:

For sugar syrup:

Take a large pan; pour sugar as well as water in it, and Let the syrup boil for 3-4 minutes. When you touch it; between your index finger and thumb and pull it apart, it should form a string. Put off the flame. Add cardamom powder, raisin and cashew nut. Keep aside.

For boondi:

Take a wide vessel; Put Besan, rice flour and soda, add water in small quantity to make a smooth batter. It should neither be too thin nor thick just like dosa batters (flowing consistency) add colour as per your choice. (See photo…)

Method:

Take a fry pan, Heat ghee on medium heat (to check if oil is ready pour batter ,if it comes up slowly means it is ready, if doesn’t wait for couple of minutes ant test again).
Take a ladle full of batter on boondi ladle/maker and gently tap it. Droplets of batter will fall into the hot ghee and beautiful round shaped boondi will appear. (If boondi is not round in shape and get tail end means, the batter is thin add bit of gram flour and check again) Fry for a minute and take out, put it into sugar syrup. Repeat the process for the rest of the batter.
Mix them properly let it be cool, stir occasionally, after getting cool it will get separated.
Meethi boondi is ready; decorate with flower petals, delicious and eye catching ’Meethi boondi’ is ready to be served.