Bonda is a deep-fried

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n 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 The ' also known as ''Abhilashitartha Chintamani'', is an early 12th-century Sanskrit text composed by the Kalyani Chalukya king Someshvara III, who ruled in present-day Karnataka . It is an encyclopedic work covering topics such as polity, gove ...

'', a 12th-century Sanskrit encyclopedia compiled by

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, who ruled from present-day

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Preparation

The process of making a spicy bonda involves potato filling dipped in

gram flour Gram flour or kadala maavu is a pulse flour made from a variety of ground chickpea called Bengal gram or ''kaala chana''. It is a staple ingredient in the cuisine of the Indian subcontinent, including in Indian, Bangladeshi, Burmese, Nepali, ...

batter. ''Bonda'' has a sweet and a spicy variant. Some regional variants in

Kerala Kerala ( ; ) is a state on the Malabar Coast of India. It was formed on 1 November 1956, following the passage of the States Reorganisation Act, by combining Malayalam-speaking regions of the erstwhile regions of Cochin, Malabar, South ...

replace the potato with

tapioca Tapioca (; ) is a starch extracted from the storage roots of the cassava plant (''Manihot esculenta,'' also known as manioc), a species native to the North and Northeast regions of Brazil, but whose use is now spread throughout South America ...

(tapioca ''bonda'') or sweet potato and some onion, hard-boiled egg (''mutta Bonda''), masala, minced meat and other ingredients. In

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, ''bonda'' is made from

black gram ''Vigna mungo'', also known as black gram, urad bean, urid bean, mash kalai, uzhunnu parippu, ulundu paruppu, minapa pappu, uddu, or black matpe, is a bean grown in South Asia. Like its relative, the mung bean, it has been reclassified from the ...

(''ulundu'') batter. In

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it is known as ''poornalu''. Vegetable ''bonda'' is a dish of

Udupi cuisine Udupi cuisine is a cuisine of South India. It forms an important part of Tuluva cuisine and takes its name from Udupi, a city on the southwest coast of India in the Tulunadu region. Udupi cuisine is strictly vegetarian and has its origin in th ...

, 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 Golibaje (in Tulu) or Mangalore bajji (in Kannada) is an Indian fried food made from various flours and curd. In Tulu Nadu region, it is known as golibaje. Other names for the dish include Mangalore baje. This is widely famous in Andhra Pradesh a ...

is another variant from Karnataka. This ''bonda'', however, is made from

maida flour is a white flour from the Indian subcontinent, made from wheat. Finely milled without any bran, refined, and bleached, it closely resembles cake flour. is used extensively for making fast foods, baked goods such as pastries, bread, several variet ...

(refined flour).

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Recipe: Aloo Bonda

Recipe: Malabar Egg Bonda (Mutta Bonda)
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