Bonda

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Bonda
The real South Indian Bonda.jpg
Bonda
Origin
Place of origin South India
Region or state Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Telangana
Details
Serving temperature Hot
Main ingredient(s) Gram flour batter, potato (or other vegetables)

Bonda is a typical South Indian snack that has various sweet and spicy versions of it in different regions.

Preparation

The process of making a spicy bonda involves potato filling dipped in gram flour batter.

Bonda has a sweet and a spicy variant. Keralites prefer the sweet one called Sugiyan, while the savoury version is common in the rest of India.

Some regional variants in Kerala replace the potato with tapioca (Tapioca Bonda) or sweet potato and some onion, hard boiled egg (Mutta Bonda), masala, minced meat and other ingredients.

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. Mangalore bonda is another delicacy from Karnataka. This bonda however is made from maida (all purpose flour).

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