Sweet Boondi

Ingredients:-

• Besan/Gram Flour - 1 cup
• Oil - 1 tbsp
• Sugar - 1 cup
• Water -1/2 cup
• Broken cashew nuts - 1 tbsp
• Melon seeds - 1tbsp
• Green Cardamom powder - 1 tbsp
• Kesar/ orange food color - 1 pinch
• Cooking oil to fry

Method :-

• Take gram flour in a bowl add 1 tbsp of oil into it       then add water mix well to make a smooth batter.

• It should be smooth and little thin than bajji batter     and keep it aside.

• 2 Slotted ladles are needed. One for making boondi and another for draining boondi from oil.

• Heat oil for deep frying,Oil should be moderately hot.

• To test, drop a pea size batter in the oil, batter should rise immediately without changing color which means oil is ready for frying boondis.

• Now hold one slotted ladle just over oil (neither too low nor too high). Use another deep ladle to pour batter over slotted ladle. 

• Pour one ladle full of batter over the slotted ladle and spread in a circular motion by the back of the deep ladle. The batter will fall drop by drop.

• Fry them till little crispy. Drain and place them on a paper towel to absorb excess oil.

• Repeat the process with rest of the batter.

• Then make sugar syrup from 1cup sugar & 1/2 cup water of 1 string consistency by bringing it to boil. 

• Then add in cardamom powder,cashews, melon seeds,one pinch of food color and mix well to make syrup.

• Add the fried yellow boondis into the syrup. Gently toss them and mix till boondis are well coated in sugar syrup.

• Then switch off the flame . Let this set for 1 hours until the sugar syrup is completely absorbed by Sweet Boondi .

• Now it's ready to eat .