Sweet Boondi

Boondi ... In my family for every diwali this is the must sweet. We will do Lakshmi pooja and then we will distribute boondi to other relative .... The thing is, on this day relatives will come to your house to distribute their boondi !!! Boondi festival ;) 

Generally we use dry sweet boondi, as it stays for more time.

But personally, i like wet sweet boondi and here is the recipe for yummy wet sweet boondi :)

Preparation time : 30 mins
Makes : One big bowl / Serves : 5 people approx

Ingredients :

Cardamom powder : 1/2 tsp
Nuts : 2 tbsp (Cashew nuts / Almonds / Raisins)
For Batter :
Gram flour /besan : 1 cup
Water :  1/2 cup
For Sugar syrup :
Sugar : 1 1/2 cup
Water : 1 cup

Method :

Take a pan, heat it, add sugar and water.
Keep heat on medium.
Let it boil till syrup comes to a half thread consistency.
Keep it aside and keep it warm.
Now prepare the batter --
Take a bowl, add besan, slowly add water and make a smooth batter.
Add a tsp of oil to the prepared batter, this helps in pouring this batter smoothly into the oil.
Check the batter, When you pour it on a slotted ladle, drops should fall down.
If drops are not falling down then add 1 to 2 tbsp of water while checking it.
Let this batter rest for 10 mins, so that you will get perfect boondi.
Heat oil in a deep pan(to deep fry boondi).
Keep the slotted ladle 1 1/2 inch high to the oil and add prepared batter on the ladle, so that drops of this mixture falls into hot oil and forms boondi.
(If you keep ladle even more down (or) up , you wont get round shape boondi)
Fry them till the sizzling sound disappears.
Take them out and immediately add them to the warm sugar syrup.
Let boondi to sit in this syrup for some time before serving.

After preparing the batter i took some batter in two different bowls and i added red, green colors, just for eye appeal. The reason to add these color is, on diwali when we get our sweet bowl we used to search for colored once first, so i added colors ........
Enjoy your sweet boondi :)

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