Ulundu Bonda Recipe | Urad Dal Bonda, is one of the popular evening snack in Southern India. This Bonda is a round shaped crispy snack made with urad dal along with other spices. It’s a great tea time snack and usually served with Coconut Chutney. Its also referred popularly as “Mysore Bonda”. I have always been known that Mysore Bonda is made with Maida. But also I keep hearing that Mysore bonda is made with Urad dal. All I have ever known is this delicious Ulundu Bonda is a always a popular snack in Tamilnadu too and whenever we go for any chaat shops or pantry or any restaurants in the evening, this Ulundu Bonda will be on top of the menu.
The procedure for making Ulundu Bonda, is just similar to Medhu Vadai. Soaking Urad dal and grind it to a fluffy batter, same as Medhuvadia. For Bonda, we generally add peppercorns, finely chopped coconut pieces in addition to all the other ingredients. Also we don’t need to shape the bonda like vada with a hole in the center. We just need to drop the batter like a dumpling in hot oil. It’s quite simple than the vada. We don’t have to worry about the shape 🙂 . Though this is not an instant version as it involves soaking, still a pretty easy and simple recipe.
Video Version of making Ulundu Bonda
Method to make Ulundu Bonda
(For the detailed step by step instructions along with pictures and more details, please scroll down further to Steps section below)
- Soak the Ulundu(Urad Dal) and rice in water for 2 hours.
- Strain it and grind it in a grinder by adding 3 tablespoon of water. Grind it till the urdhal is smooth without any lumps.
- Take out the batter in a vessel. Add green chili, peppercorns, ginger, coconut pieces, curry leaves and coriander leaves along with salt and give a good mix
- Heat oil in a pan. Check the hotness of the oil. If you drop a pinch of batter, it should raise immediately in the oil. Then the oil is ready. Wet your fingers and palm with water and take a dollop of batter, roll it like a ball and then gently drop in oil. In each batch add 3-4 pieces and deep fry the bondas till they are crispy and golden brown. Flip the bondas so that they get evenly fried up and make sure the flame is low while frying the bondas.
- Serve the crispy and yummy Ulundu Bonda with Coconut Chutney and enjoy the evening with this wonderful snack!
Notes:
- We should always grind the urad dal with very little water at a time. We really need a fluffy batter but at the same time not runny
- If you are grinding the batter in mixer, then the batter will not be aerated naturally, so take out the smoothly ground batter and beat the batter with a ladle or whisk for atleast 5 mins to manually incorporate air in the batter. This will make the batter to be light and the bondas will be soft inside
- We can also enrich the bonda with mixed veggies
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