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Kara Boondi | Kara Boondhi Recipe
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Kara Boondi | Kara Boondhi Recipe

Kara Boondi is a popular snack in Tamil Nadu made mainly using Gram Flour and other spices. It looks tiny, cute balls which is spicy and crunchy. It's a great accompaniment for a hot tea/ coffee. It's one of the easy to make snack and commonly made during Diwali. The Kara Boondi can be enjoyed as such or can be used to prepare Mixture, chat items or Boondi raita.
Prep Time10 minutes
Cook Time10 minutes
Total Time20 minutes
Course: Snack
Cuisine: Indian, South Indian, Tamil Nadu
Servings: 4 people
Calories: 160kcal
Author: Sowmya Venkatachalam

Equipment

  • Heavy Bottomed Pan
  • Boondi Ladle

Ingredients

  • 1 cup Gram Flour (Besan / Chickpea Flour) 1 cup = 250 ml
  • 2 tablespoon Rice Flour
  • ½ teaspoon Red Chili Powder
  • 1 teaspoon Salt (adjust to your taste)
  • Cooking Oil For frying

For Tempering

  • 2 tablespoon Cashews
  • 2 tablespoon Curry leaves
  • ½ teaspoon Red Chili Powder
  • 1 teaspoon Cooking Oil

Instructions

Prepare the Flour

  • Seive the gram flour and rice flour and take it in a bowl. 
  • Add salt, red chilli powder and mix well.Add water and mix the flours. The consistency of the flour should be little thin than the bajji flour.

Let's start making Boondi

  • Clean the boondhi plate and keep it ready. Heat oil in a pan, when the oil is ready for frying, hold the boondhi plate in left hand and take ¼ cup of the boondhi batter and pour it on the boondhi plate
  • Gently tap the boondhi plate using the ladle so that the batter drops in the oil evenly.
  • Fry the Boondhi in the medium flame till it becomes crisp. Take the fried boondhi in strainer to drain excess oil. 
  • Repeat the above steps for the remaining batter.

Tempering

  • Heat oil in a pan, add cashews and curry leaves and fry till the cashews turn golden brown color.
  • Add this to the karaboondhi along with salt, red chilli powder and mix well
  • The yummy karaboondhi is ready to serve.

Video

Notes

  1. Instead of tempering curry leaves, we can deep fry them in hot oil once we finish frying boondi. Also we can deep fry cashews, peanuts and add it to the fried boondi
  2. If you don't have a Boondi ladle, you can also use the conventional ladle that we use in our home (Kan Appai)

Nutrition

Serving: 28g | Calories: 160kcal | Carbohydrates: 9g | Protein: 4g | Fat: 12g | Saturated Fat: 2g | Sodium: 110mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 1g