Aloo bonda/ urulaikizhangu bonda is a classic tea/ coffee time snack and can be made easily with potato. Step by step detailed pictures.
It is sure a kids favourite as it has potato stuffed inside. I wanted to try aloo bonda for long time, made only once before. But somehow, I haven't made it, that often. Though I tried this after years, I was happy with the result, as I was bit worried how it would turn out.
So here's the snack, that would be a family pleasing snack. I did this post as guest post for Jeyashri and now as I am busy travelling I thought of making use of this post now here and share with my readers as well 🙂
Recipe card
Aloo bonda
Aloo bonda/ urulaikizhangu bonda is a classic tea/ coffee time snack and can be made easily with potato. Step by step detailed pictures.
Servings 4
Cup measurements
Ingredients
- 3 Potato
- 1 Onion
- 2 Green chilli
- 1 tablespoon Ginger finely chopped
- 2 teaspoon Lemon juice
- ⅛ teaspoon Turmeric
- Salt
To temper
- Oil - 2 tsp
- Mustard - ¾ tsp
- Urad dal - 1 tsp
- Curry leaves - 1 sprig
For batter
- Besan flour - ½ cup
- Rice flour - 2 tbsp
- Ghee - 1 tsp
- Asafoetida - 3 pinches
- Turmeric - 2 pinches
- Cooking soda - 2 pinches
- Salt
Instructions
- Pressure cook potatoes for 3 whistles, peel off the skin once done and mash it well. Keep aside. In a kadai/ pan, season with mustard urad dal and curry leaves. Add finely chopped ginger, green chilli and onion. Fry till transparent without changing colour. Add turmeric and salt.
- Add cooked, mashed potatoes and mix well so that the turmeric blends evenly. Stir for 2 minutes, drizzle a teaspoon of oil, lemon juice and mix. Transfer to a plate and cool down. Make 12 equal sized balls and set aside.
- In a mixing bowl, mix everything under ‘For the batter’ table with little water to make a batter, it should be thick enough to coat the potato balls. I have added black pepper powder as I like the flavor.
- Heat oil in a kadai and deep fry the potato balls dipped to coat it well in the besan batter mix. Turn over in a minute to cook evenly on both sides. Cook in medium flame.
- When its evenly golden fried, drain it over kitchen tissue.
Notes
- The stuffing part can be made to suit your taste buds. You can vary the potato masala by adding mint leaves, red chilli powder etc. ;
- The batter Should be thick, otherwise, the look of the bonda will not be round and smooth.
- You can replace pepper powder with red chilli powder as will in the batter.
- Ghee adds a wonderful flavour along with pepper and adds crispiness too.
- You can also double fry for extra crisp bondas.
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Aloo bonda method
- Pressure cook potatoes for 3 whistles, peel off the skin once done and mash it well. Keep aside. In a kadai/ pan, season with mustard urad dal and curry leaves. Add finely chopped ginger, green chilli and onion. Fry till transparent without changing colour. Add turmeric and salt.
- Add cooked, mashed potatoes and mix well so that the turmeric blends evenly. Stir for 2 minutes, drizzle a teaspoon of oil, lemon juice and mix. Transfer to a plate and cool down. Make 12 equal sized balls and set aside.
- In a mixing bowl, mix everything under ‘For the batter’ table with little water to make a batter, it should be thick enough to coat the potato balls. I have added black pepper powder as I like the flavor.
- Heat oil in a kadai and deep fry the potato balls dipped to coat it well in the besan batter mix. Turn over in a minute to cook evenly on both sides. Cook in medium flame.
- When its evenly golden fried, drain it over kitchen tissue.
Notes
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- The stuffing part can be made to suit your taste buds. You can vary the potato masala by adding mint leaves, red chilli powder etc. ;
- The batter Should be thick, otherwise, the look of the bonda will not be round and smooth.
- You can replace pepper powder with red chilli powder as will in the batter.
- Ghee ads a wonderful flavour along with pepper and adds crispiness too.
Enjoy hot with coconut chutney (getti chutney), as a tea/ coffee time snack.
Nivedhanams Sowmya
Looks so good.... delicious bonda... One suggestion is that the first 2 pictures are little darker... But the last picture is soooo good!!!
Akila
Tempting bonda Raji.... In never get the perfect round shapes....
Vijayalakshmi Dharmaraj
very tempting and filling bonda aks... love it much...
Priya Srinivasan
Super tempting Bonda, i m feeling soooo hungry seeing the picture!!!
Priti S
Looks yum ...perfect n tempting
Sowmya Sundararajan
Now you are tempting me Raji.................................
Kaveri Venkatesh
Oh! this looks really tempting...mmmmm
JEYASHRI SURESH
Thats indeed sweet of you to post a guest post for me. Lovely bondas
Sangeetha Nambi
Perfectly moulded Bonda... Love it !
BAGIRATHI DEVI
My mouth is watering my kids also love it
Finla
Drooling here it is ages ago i made them, here a thome shyama loves it i always serve with ketchup ( lazybones i am ) i love the idea of serving them with the chutney
Nisa Homey
Perfect bondas....to have with tea.
Kalpana Sareesh
love it anytime..
Gayathri Ramanan
lovely and perfect shape aloo bonda..love to munch with a cup of tea..
Sundar Matpadi
Looks great. My wife adds a little of lemon juice to the potato masala and it tastes good.
SHARMILEE J
Looks so perfect, yummy looking bondas,its raining here..I wish I had these now 🙂
Lakshmi Canteen @ Koppa
Beautiful clicks says it all...:-) You make every recipe so perfect ..
Wer SAHM
lovely bondas...
Hema Sasidharan
Perfectly shaped balls with the quintessential Aloo stuffing. soooo tempting !
Anonymous
Hi.I came across your recipe for Aval kozhukattai. I am familiar with Aval upma.
What is the difference between the two?
Is kozhukattai steamed upma balls?
Thanks.
Janani
yummy bondas I love them so much nice click raks.
Priya Suresh
Who can resist to this beauties, aloo bondas are always my favourite.
Hema
Bondas are crispy and gorgeous. I love your serving platters!
Veena Theagarajan
super yummy bonda.. Love it
Little CookingTips
What a great exotic (to us Greeks) recipe! 🙂 Thank you!!
swathi
mouth watering bondas:)
gopal
Is it possible to make in micro. I used to make coated cauliflower florets in this manner, less oil.
Bunty J
good
Raks anand
Oh, I haven't tried, also it may not work for this one.
JAYANTHI
Raks how much proportion of batter I have to put for 50 members to make bonda for a party.
Raks anand
4 times the recipe will help. Example besan 2 cups.
JAYANTHI
Thank u raks for the receipt. Today I tried it came out well. I got somewhat round shape bondas. But I want exact round shape. Even I made batter thicker only. Tips please
JAYANTHI
Thank u raks for the receipt. Today I tried it came out well. I got somewhat round shape bondas. But I want exact round shape. Even I made batter thicker only. Tips please
Raks anand
May be stuffing was not stiff. Make sure to cook potato just right.
Deepa
Hi, is it possible to make it without cooking soda? Will the result be different?
Raks anand
Slight change in looks and softness will be there. You can try just one and see how it is and if you are not satisfied with the result, add cooking soda.
Unknown
Why and where should we add lemon juice
Gomathi
Can kuzhi-paniyaram pan be used instead of deep frying, as done for some kofta recipes?
Raks anand
Sorry, updated. After switching off the stove.
ram
Hi iam planning to make for a bday party to say around 40 . is it ok i make the potato stuffing a day ahead and fry it on the day if celeb ??
Raks anand
Yes, you can do that, make sure the fridge is in coolest setting and the temperature is maintained.