Bonda is a deep-fried South Indian potato snack that has various sweet and savory versions in different regions. The most common is ''aloo bonda'' ( potato ''bonda''), and other region-specific variations include potato replaced with sweet potato, tapioca, grated pineapple, green peas, paneer, or other ingredients.

History

A recipe for bonda (as ''parika'') is mentioned in '' Manasollasa'', a 12th-century Sanskrit encyclopedia compiled by Someshvara III, who ruled from present-day Karnataka.

Preparation

The process of making a spicy bonda involves potato filling dipped in gram flour batter. ''Bonda'' has a sweet and a spicy variant. Some regional variants in Kerala replace the potato with tapioca (tapioca ''bonda'') or sweet potato and some onion, hard-boiled egg (''mutta Bonda''),

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, minced meat and other ingredients. In Tamil Nadu, ''bonda'' is made from black gram (''ulundu'') batter. In Andhra Pradesh it is known as ''poornalu''. Vegetable ''bonda'' is a dish of Udupi cuisine, where fresh green peas and other finely chopped vegetables like French beans, carrot and coriander leaves are used as filling. ''Goli baje'' or Mangalore ''bonda'' or Mangalore bajji is another variant from Karnataka. This ''bonda'', however, is made from maida flour (refined flour).

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Recipe: Aloo Bonda

Recipe: Malabar Egg Bonda (Mutta Bonda)
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