Aloo Bonda is a popular south indian deep fried snack made with gram flour batter and stuffed with potato filling.
Ingredients
Ingredients
- Potatoes - 3, medium sized
- Onion - 1, medium
- Grated ginger - 1 tbsp
- Green chilli - 1
- Turmeric powder - 1/4 tsp
- Cilantro - 2 tbsp, finely chopped
- Curry leaves - few
- Urad dal - 1 tsp
- Mustard seeds - 1/2 tsp
- Oil - 1 tbsp
- Salt - To taste
For the batter
- Gram flour - 1/2 cup
- Rice flour - 1 tbsp
- Asafoetida/Hing/பெருங்காயம் - 2 pinches
- Baking soda - 1/4 tsp
- Chilli powder - 1/2 tsp
- Salt - to taste
- Oil - To deep fry
Method
- Pressure cook the potatoes for 3 whistles. Cool down, peel off the skin and mash it well.
- Heat oil in a pan and add mustard seeds. Once it splutters, add urad dal and fry till it turns slight brown.
- Add curry leaves and grated ginger and saute for few seconds and add onion and green chilli.
- Cook till the onion turns soft.
- Add turmeric powder and salt.
- Now add the mashed potatoes and mix well. Cook for 2 minutes.
- Cool down and make small balls. Keep aside.
- In a bowl mix gram flour, rice flour, asafoetida, baking soda, chilli powder and salt. Add water slowly to make a thick batter.
- Heat oil in a pan. Dip a potato ball in the batter, coat it well and slowly drop into the pan. Repeat for other balls.
- Fry the balls for a minute in medium heat and turn over to cook evenly on both sides. Fry them until all sides are golden brown.
- Serve them hot with chutney/sauce.
