Mangalore Bonda

We make this bonda with Maida flour. My grandma used to make this every other week. She is an expert in this recipe. Here is the recipe.

Ingredients:-

1. Maida Flour - 1 cup
2. Thick Sour Buttermilk - 3/4 cup
3. Salt to taste
4. Oil - to fry
5. Mustard seeds - 1/4 tsp
6. Green chillies - 2 (acc to taste)
7. Asafoetida powder - a pinch
8. Curry leaves - few

Mix maida flour + salt + buttermilk into a fine thick paste. If the buttermilk is really sour, we can mix the flour with buttermilk at the time of preparation. If its not that sour, its better to mix it 2 hours before preparation(in summer) or 4 hours before preparation (in winter). At the time of preparation, take a small seasoning pan, preheat a drop of oil, add mustard seeds, when it splutters add green chillies, asafoetida powder and curry leaves and pour it on top of maida batter. Mix it well.

Take a wide pan, pre heat oil, make a small lemon sized balls with the maida batter and deep fry it till golden brown. Serve it hot with some chutney. This bonda should be served always hot. Otherwise it will become hard to eat.

Bonda 1- With vegetables

This is our regular bonda which we make with urid dhall. I tried adding some vegetables to it. We usually add onions in it. I also tried some more veggies. It came out really well and here is the receipe..

Ingredients:-

1. Urid dhall - 1 cup (measuring cup)
2. Green chillies - 4
3. Salt to taste
4. Ginger - a small piece
5. Asafoetida powder - a pinch
   
6. Shredded Carrots - 2 tbsp
7. Finely chopped spinach - 2 tbsp
8. Finely chopped onions - 2 tbsp
9. shredded cheese - 1 tbsp (optional)
10. Curry leaves - few
11. Coriander leaves - 1 tbsp
    
12. Oil - to fry

First soak the urid dhall in water for an hour. (usually urid dhall takes less time to soak). After an hour, wash it, add green chillies, salt and ginger and grind it into a fine paste without adding much water. Now mix the veggies, curry leaves, coriander leaves, asafoetida powder and cheese to it. Pre heat the oil in a pan, make a small balls out of this batter and deep fry the it into golden brown. Serve it hot with coconut chutney or tomato sauce.

Bonda 2

This is another variety of Bonda. I made this bonda with left over idly batter. Here is the receipe.

Ingredients:-

1. Idly Batter - one cup
2. Potato - 1 or 1 1/2 (according to the quantity of batter)
3. Onion - 1/2
4. Green chillies - 1
5. Oil - 1 tsp
6. Mustard seeds - 1/2 tsp
7. Turmeric powder - 1/4 tsp
8. Urid dhall - 1/4 tsp
9. Salt to taste
10. Oil - To fry
    

First cook the potato and mash it. Keep it aside. Take a pan, preheat the oil, add mustard seeds, when it splutters, add urid dhall, green chillies and fry it to golden brown. Add onion and fry it to golden brown. Now add the mashed potatoes and a quarter cup of water. Add turmeric powder and salt and let it cook for 3 to 5 mts. This is the masala. Make it thicker and not watery. Make it a small ball.

Take a wide pan, pre heat the oil, dip the masala balls into idly batter one by one and fry it to golden brown. Serve it hot with tomato sauce or coconut chutney.