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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.
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''),
Recipe: Aloo Bonda
Recipe: Malabar Egg Bonda (Mutta Bonda)
* {{Potato dishes Indian fast food Karnataka cuisine Telangana cuisine Tamil cuisine Snack foods Potato dishes Andhra cuisine Deep fried foods
History
A recipe for bonda (as ''parika'') is mentioned in '' Manasollasa'', a 12th-century Sanskrit encyclopedia compiled bySomeshvara III
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, 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''), masala
Masala, Massala or MASALA may refer to:
Spice
* Masala (spice), any of the many spice mixes used in South Asian cuisine
** Masala chai, a flavoured tea beverage
** Masala incense, Indian incense using a spice mix
** Masala dosa, an Indian dish
Pl ...
, 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).
See also
* Indian cuisine *Vada
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*Vada Pinson (1938–1995), American baseball player
*Vada Sultenfuss, fictional character in the 1991 film ''My Girl''
* ...
*Batata vada
Batata vada ( mr, बटाटा वडा, ) is a popular vegetarian fast food dish from the Indian state of Maharashtra. The dish consists of a mashed potato
The potato is a starchy food, a tuber of the plant ''Solanum tuberosum'' and ...
References
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Recipe: Aloo Bonda
Recipe: Malabar Egg Bonda (Mutta Bonda)
* {{Potato dishes Indian fast food Karnataka cuisine Telangana cuisine Tamil cuisine Snack foods Potato dishes Andhra cuisine Deep fried foods