21 October, 2017
Seeme badanekayi bonda | Chayote squash fritters |
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Bonda/bajji/fritters are a snack made using sliced vegetable, dipped in spiced flour mixture and then deep fried in oil and made during any festival/functions etc.
We can use ridge gourd, green chilli, potato, cucumber, onion, chow chow (seeme badanekayi) etc. I never use maida/Plain flour in this, instead I always use rice flour with the gram flour (my mom used to do so). It turns out crispy, light and melt in mouth kind of thing. Today being the last day of deepavali festival, celebrated as bhai dooj (anna tangiyara habba) I made bele holige/lentil pooran poli and bajji to celebrate the occasion. In my native place (Shikaripura) it is celebrated equally grand like rest of the days of deepavali. I very often make bele holige/lentil pooran poli, as it is one of our most favourite sweets. So this time I did not make holige since last four days, but did it today along with seeme badanekayi bonda/bajji. I have already posted the recipe of the Pooran poli in my blog, so today I’m here to share my method of making bonda/bajji/fritters.
Below you can have look at the pic of how seeme badanekayi or Chayote squash looks –
Ingredients : measuring cup used – 250 ml
- Gram flour – 1/2 cup
- Rice flour – 1/3 cup (I use almost equal)
- Carom seeds/ajwain/Om – 3/4 tsp
- Red chilli powder – 1 tsp (adjust)
- Turmeric powder – 1/2 tsp
- Ginger paste – 1 tbsp
- Green chilli – 1 or 2 (Optional) (I use this when making Pakora)
- Curry leaves – 2 tbsp (Optional) (I use this when making Pakoda)
- Hing – 1/4 tsp
- Salt to taste
- Hot (smoking) oil – 2 tbsp
Others :
- Slices of vegetable you want to use, today I have used seemebadanekayi/chow-chow
- Water to make batter
- Oil to deep fry
PROCEDURE :
- Gather gran flour, rice flour, carom seeds, red chilli powder, turmeric powder, ginger paste, hing and salt to taste in a bowl, combine everything well, now pour the hot oil and slowly add water while mixing continuously and prepare a thick batter.
- Meanwhile heat oil for deep frying
- Now dip the sliced vegetable in the prepared batter and drop them slowly in the hot oil, one by one
- Cook till both sides are done, remove on a kitchen towel to drain the excess oil
- Serve hot
https://tinditirtha.com/2016/08/30/godhi-hittina-bele-holige-whole-wheat-flour-pooran-poli/