MYSORE BONDA

Bonda for tea, also made fried spring rolls
and palam pori (fried bananas)

Here is the bonda recipe


MYSORE BONDA

Ingredients:

1 cup of whole urad dal
1 tbs raw rice
2 green chillies ground
1 tbs finely chopped ginger ground
2 tbs of coconut cut into strips (pallu palla)
2 tsps of black pepper
2 tsps of cumin seeds
10 cashew nuts chopped
¼ tsp asafoetida powder
1 sprig curry leaves sliced fine
Salt to taste
Oil for deep frying

Method:
Soak the urad dal and rice for an hour.
Grind both to a thick paste.

Add in the ground green chillie and ginger.
Also add in coconut, black pepper, cumin seeds,
cashew nuts, asafoetida powder, curry leaves,
and enough salt. Mix well.

Heat a wok with the oil, dip your hand in the water.
Take a big lime sized ball of the dough.
Just toss in your palms and slip it in the oil.
Cook till it is light brown in colour.
Remove it to the kitchen towel tissue.
Serve it for tea.


The speciality of this bonda is the taste
when you bite into the coconut pieces.