Sweet Boondi | Boondi | Diwali Sweets

Sweet Boondi, a traditional Indian Sweet made from chickpeas flour/ Besan. Though making boondi at home is a bit time consuming process, it's really worth the taste ! 

If you're a beginner, i wouldn't advice to make this sweet alone in order to avoid overwhelming. Because it needs a lot of attention and you need to work in a fast paced environment. However, if you're confident and make a very little quantity then go ahead. I'm sure that you will succeed in making this Boondi. 

Even for the every first time when i was making this boondi, i did alone without any help. So if i can do it, anyone can do it :-) 

Clicking the photos step by step was really difficult, making boondi with one hand and clicking with the other hand, omg, somehow i managed it. But when i saw those beautiful boondi, all my pain was gone and it tasted so delicious.

Crispy outside and juicy inside, who can say no to that?. When i was young, i remember eating boondi with sugar candy in it. But now i couldn't find any shop making it like that, just to recreate that, i added sugar candy, but you can skip that. If you're a beginner, then see the notes and this video before you start, it helps to avoid the mistakes and make the process easier. 

Sweet Boondi

Preparation Time : 15 mins | Cooking Time : 20 mins | Makes : 2 cups heaped 
Recipe Category: Sweets | Recipe Cuisine: Indian
Sweet Boondi, Boondi Recipe Sweet Boondi, a traditional Indian Sweet made from chickpeas flour/ Besan.

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Ingredients
Besan/Gram Flour - 1 cup
Rice flour - 11/2 tbsp
Sugar - 3/4 cup
Cardamom - 3
Cloves - 2 
Cashews - 1 tbsp
Ghee - 1 tsp
Sugar candy(Optional) - 11/2 tbsp
Oil - for frying

Procedure

Take gram flour & rice flour in a bowl, add water and make a pouring consistency batter without any lumps

Heat oil in a wide pan, take the slotted spoon(with holes in it) and keep above the oil,now take a laddle full of batter and pour it on slotted spoon and spread it in circular motion, the boondhi slowly drop into the oil.

Let the boondi cook till it "shh" sound stops,remove it from the oil and place it on tissue paper. Before doing next batch, clean the slotted spoon to get neat round shapes.

Once all the boondi is fried,take the sugar in a sauce pan, add water just to immerse the sugar and let it boil,till the sugar reach one string consistency(Take sugar syrup in between your thumb & index finger, it should from single thread).

Now add  the crushed cardamom and cloves in to the sugar syrup , then add boondi, give a good mix and finally add sugar candy.

Fry cashews till golden brown & add into the boondi, let it cool completely.

Tasty & juicy Sweet Boondi is ready.

Related: How to make Adhirasam

Notes:

• While making the batter, don't add too much water at the start, check it by dipping a spoon in the batter and place it above the hot oil.
• If the boondi have tails, you have to add more water or else
• if the boondi becomes flat and absorbs lot of oil,then you have to add more flour.
• To check the detail procedure see this video.
• Sugar candy is optional.
• Cloves and cardamom gives great flavor to the boondi.
• If you like, you can add rose essence too for flavor.
• If you have boondi karandi, use that, it will give the perfect shape.