Preparation time: 10 minutes
Cooking time: 20 minutes
Makes 4 serving
Cooking time: 20 minutes
Makes 4 serving
Let’s make it with very simple ingredients easily available in our kitchen. We use food colour for good colour but you can skip it.boondi will also come out awesome without food colour,
If you are using food colour, make sure that this is from branded authentic good quality food colours
Ingredients
- 1cup besan (Bengal gram flour/ chickpea flour)
Ghee / refine oil for deep frying - For sugar syrup-
- 1cup sugar
- 1/2 cup water
- 1/2 tsp of saffron strands dissolved in 2 tbsp warm water
or - good quality yellow and kesari ( orange) food colour
Method
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Combine besan, and 1/2 cup water in a bowl mix well till no lumps remain.
If you think that the batter is thick, add few drops of water.The batter should be pouring/dropping in consistency.( neither too thick nortoo thin).Whisk the battter for 5-6 minutes.cover it and rest for 10 minutes. -
Add saffron or yellow/ orange food colour or ( keasari colour) .Keep aside it.
Heat the ghee in a kadhai and hold the jharni/ perforated spoon just over the kadhai/ frying pan.(neither too low height nor too much height) pour 2 to 3 tbsp of the batter at a time over a round perforated spoon (boondi Jharni), - Check the boondi is round in shape or not if it does not happen or the boondi size is distorted, reduce the amount of water in making batter. Check the consistency.Heat the ghee / oil in a kadhai.. Check the heat is hot enough to make boondi..(put a drop of batter in kadhai to check whether it is hot or not.If the boondi rises up instantly into the oil,then it is ready to use..if not wait for a while so the oil/ ghee heat up little more.
- Deep-fry the boondi over a medium flame until it becomes crispy and take out from the kadhai using palta/slotted spoon.Repeat the same step to make more batches of boondi.After that immediately put the boondi in warm sugar syrup mix well, cook on medium flame for 1 to 2 minutes or till the sugar syrup evenly coated all sides of boondi . Switch off the gas.Sweet juicy awesome boondi is ready to eat. Enjoy this basant panchami with sweet delicious boondi
