Delicious Boondi Recipe

Boondi is a very delicious Indian sweet. This is how we make it in Sri Lanka. You can store this sweet even more than a week and enjoy.

Ingredients:Boondi Batter

• All-pupose Flour – 150g
• Baking Powder – 1 ½ tsp
• Vanilla – 01 tsp
• Red Food Coloring
• Salt – ½ tsp
• Water

Ingredients:Sugar Syrup

• Sugar – 400g
• Water – ½ cup
• Lime – 02 tsp

Method:

• Combine flour, salt and baking powder together.
• Mix it by gradually adding water. Don’t add too much water at once and add little by little until it comes to the right level.
• This mixture should be a little bit thick batter without any flour clots.
• Once this is ready add coloring and vanilla. You can choose any color for this, but red is very common for Boondi.
• Mix this very well and keep aside.
• For the sugar syrup add sugar and water and stir on low heat until sugar dissolves.
• When sugar is bubbling add few lime drops.
• Stir this little bit more and turn off the flame.
• Fill a piping bag with Boondi batter.
• Heat oil in a pan and pour the batter into oil.
• Fry Boondi few minutes and get them out. No need to fry this unti it becomes crispy, just fry around 1-2 mins.
• Stir Boondi in prepared sugar syrup. At this time sugar syrup should be hot. Then only it absorbs well to our Boondi.
• After stirring well with sugar syrup we can get them out and serve.