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Sweet boondi is my favorite since childhood. The juicy inside and grainy outside boondhis really takes me to another world. I have seen my mom making this so many times. But never tried so far on my own. So today, suddenly thought, since I tried Kara boondi, I was confident, this will also come out good. So quickly checked with mom for sugar syrup consistency. And started making straight away. It came out good successfully and here I am with the post! Happy

   Rather making it plain yellow or orange, I wanted to make it colourful. I vaguely remember I ate this way in a marriage long long ago. So I wanted to make it colourful that way. Treat to eyes as well! Big Grin

This is very easy sweet. You can try this for your Diwali!

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Sweet Boondi recipe

Recipe Cuisine: Indian  |  Recipe Category: Sweets
Prep Time: 15 mins    |  Cook time: 35 mins    |  Makes: 5 cups

Ingredients

Gram flour/ Kadala mavu – 1 & 1/2 cup

Rice flour – 1/4 cup

Cooking soda(sodium bi carbonate) – 1 small pinch

Sugar – 1 & 1/2 cup to 2 cups(adjust as per ur taste)

Rose essence(optional) – 3 drops

Cardamom – 1, powdered

Cloves – 2

Cashew nuts – 8

Ghee – 1 tsp

Edible camphor(optional) – 1 mustard size

Salt – a pinch

Food colours(optional) – orange and green

Method

  1. First make sugar syrup ready. In a broad vessel, boil sugar with water just to immerse it. Boil until 2 string consistency. If you swipe the back of ladle and check between ur thumb and forefinger, there will be two strings forming in-between the fingers. Or you can keep a small bowl of water and pour a little syrup in it, it will not dissolve and you can move the syrup and gather it. Switch off the stove.

    2. 4-syrup

  2. In a mixing bow, mix both flours, salt, cooking soda with water to a thick batter. Like bajji batter. Save a big laddle full for orange colour and another ladle full of batter for green colour in separate small bowls.

    3. 1-mix

  3. Heat oil and use a big slotted spoon to make boondis as shown below. You will be needing two big ladles with holes as seen in the picture below(slotted) . One for making boondi and one for draining from oil. Use another deep ladle to spoon the batter. Pour one ladle of batter over the ladle with hole holding it just above the oil and spread it.

    4. 2-make

  4. Wipe the ladle as seen below. Fry with constant turning to ensure even cooking and drain once the bubbles ceases, no need to wait until it gets very crispy. Just make sure its cooked. Drain in paper towel. Repeat to finish the batter.

    5. 3-yellow

  5. Mix orange food colour and green food colour to the reserved batter. Make boondis in the same way as above.

    6. 5-mixcolour

  6. Finish both orange and green similarly and drain in the paper towel.

    7. 6-colours

  7. After finishing, just give a heat(no need to boil) to the syrup we prepared and switch off the flame. Put the prepared colourful boondhis to the sugar syrup. Fry cashews, cloves in ghee separately and add it to this. Also add powdered cardamom, essence and edible camphor and mix well with a ladle.

    8. 7-mixed

  8. Keep mixing. As it cools down, the sugar syrup will be absorbed by boondi and starts crystalizing and becomes dry. Store in airtight container.

    9. 8-mixed

Notes

  • Hold the ladle up from oil well, otherwise you will get tails in the boondi.
  • Adding colours is optional, you can make it plain.
  • Adding cloves, edible camphor and essence is optional. Smells great even simply with elachi. But I like it with all these 🙂
  • If you want, you can add more sugar upto 2 cups of sugar for the given recipe. But 1 & 1/2 cup is just perfect for this.
  • Adding rice flour is also optional, but I recommend adding it as it gives a nice texture.
  • If the batter is too thick, you will get boondis with tail. So add more water and try.
  • If the batter is too watery then the boondis may fall flat. So add more gram flour and try.
  • You can also add raisins fried in ghee.

Enjoy the juicy yet textured boondhis! Smells divinely as we add cloves and edible camphor. Boondhi by itself with sugar syrup gives a great flavour!

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  9. I can't take my eyes off your beautiful clicks. These boondis look really lovely, my kiddo saw this and now wants me to make this for her. Looks like I will be making this soon.

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  16. very nice pics as well as presentation. thinking to do irt now. For making a lotsome shall we prepare the batter fully? And also shall we prepare the sugar syrup after making bhoondis ?

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  19. wowwwww… Raks!! I'm following ur recipes since a short period, but every time I'm impressed. For all recent festival occasions, the recipes whichever im having in mind to look in the net n try.. you are putting up the same in FB with wonderful & pleasing pics.. love ur fotos n recipes. Definitely this is going to be my diwali sweet! sweety boondhi :)Wish u a happy n prosperous Diwali! 🙂

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  28. Hi Raks..Awesome menu for diwali at ur space..! Loved all your diwali specials..But this is the winner.Superb! Where do we get to buy edible camphor by the way?

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  32. hey raji i need some help here can you tell how long i got to cook my sugar syrup to reach this consistency cos i ve done only one string so far? and brilliant pictures and fabulous boondis all colorful looking little pearls

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  34. Thanks u.. I've tried Sweet laddoo refered from some other cooking site. It bacame too worst.. from this i'm very much confident on making boondhi as well as laddoo. Why can't you make laddoo and provide the reciepe for us 😉

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  35. Anusha, after one string, if u heat further for 3-5 minutes, 2 string consistency will come, if you touch the syrup in between two fingers, two strings will form. Hope this helps.

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  41. Thanks Raji, made this one as per your instructions and it came out very well. Colourful attractive bhoondis. My kids loved it very much. Thank you once again. Wishing you a very Happy Diwali.

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  44. My goodness you are simply awesome!!! i don't know how you have so much patience to capture the dish in between while cooking. and that too so beautifully. The way you explain tempts me to cook every single dish of yours. You explain with such an ease 🙂 Thanks a bunch to you for sharing all these recipe's

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  49. Hi Raks. I made the boondhis following your steps but with 1/2 cup flour and 1/2 cup sugar. The boondhis fried just fine. The sugar was boiled to 2 string consistency. When I went back to sugar after frying boondhis it was a hard slab of sugar. I heated it and it melted. I added boondhis and gave a stir. The sugar crystalized. Some of it stuck to the boondhis but most of it fell apart on its own. No juice inside. Just dry boondhis with some sugar coating. Can you plz advice what went wrong. Thanks.

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  50. Sugar syrup has passed 2 string consistency I think. Make sure to boil the syrup over medium heat as the stages pass by very fast if you boil in high flame. Next time add more water if the sugar syrup passes the consistency. But its not advisable anyways. just in case of emergency. Hope this helps

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  53. Raks, I made them again and they came out perfect. When I added the boondhis in syrup and stirred they were glittering like shiny diamonds. 🙂

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  57. They look absolutely delectable! They're so bright and colorful..great detailed recipe and photographs..I'm a fan! I've made up my mind to try this for Diwali next month 🙂

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  61. raji,,,tried this recipe today…even with so much detail n fotos…my first few batches were utter flop…then finally it came out round…but i made it crisp…
    also the syrup lost its consistency…so the boondhis still remain crisp…as it cudnt absorb the syrup…
    can anything b done to the syrup if its too sticky after mixing the bhoondhis…plz reply..

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  65. Lovely Looking Boondis…. I tried it today…..Suger syrup well out well but unfortunately everytime did boondi they get tail…. 🙁 Otherwise they look nice and taste nice….. Thanks What should I do to get rid of the tails…..

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  66. Lovely Looking Boondis…. I tried it today…..Suger syrup well out well but unfortunately everytime did boondi they get tail…. 🙁 Otherwise they look nice and taste nice….. Thanks What should I do to get rid of the tails…..

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