Aloo Bonda is a popular tea time snack or a street food in South India. This is quite similar to famous Maharashtrian Street food batata Vada. Infact sometimes back, I didn’t know the difference between both until one of my blogger friend mentioned the difference of both in her blog. The difference lies in the spices used.
Here in aloo bonda, a tempering of potato is done with mustard seeds, cumin seeds and urad dal along with other spices to make potato filling. I added crushed peanuts as well to give a crunch to the filling. Rice flour along with besan is added to the batter to make crispier aloo bonda.
Here is my version of aloo bonda. Do give it a try and if you like it, do give a comment.
If you are looking for more snacks recipes, then do check corn kabab, paneer tikka, palak pakora, hara bhara kabab, batata vada, sabudana vada, cheese corn spring roll, aloo tikki, mushroom tikka
| Prep Time | 30 min |
| Cook Time | 30 min |
| Passive Time | 15 min |
| Servings |
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- 500 grams Potatoes boiled & grated
- 1 onion chopped
- 1 inch Ginger chopped finely
- 3-4 Green Chillies chopped finely
- Curry leaves few sprigs
- 1 tbsp oil
- 1 tsp Split urad dal
- ½ tsp Cumin seeds
- ½ tsp Mustard seeds
- ¼ tsp turmeric powder
- ½ tsp pepper powder
- Hing a pinch
- 2 tbsp Peanuts crushed
- Salt to taste
- 1 tbsp Lemon juice
- Oil for frying
- 1 cup Besan/ chickpeaflour
- ¼ cup rice flour
- ¼ tsp turmeric powder
- 2 tsp Hot oil
- Baking soda a pinch
- Salt to taste
Ingredients
For Potato Mixture
For Batter
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- Boil potatoes. Let them cool completely. Peel and grate potatoes.
- Add 1 tbsp oil in a pan. Add cumin seeds, urad dal, mustard seeds and hing. Let the seeds splutter.
- Add onion, finely chopped ginger, curry leaves and green chillies. Saute till onions turn translucent.
- Add grated/mashed potatoes, salt, pepper and crushed peanuts. Mix well.
- Add 1 tbsp of lemon juice. Mix and take off the flame.
- In a bowl, take all the ingredients under batter. Add water to make a thick batter. Cover and rest the batter for fifteen minutes
- In the meantime, make lemon sized balls of the potato mixture.
- Heat sufficient oil in a wok to medium hot.
- Dip each ball in the batter and drop in oil. Do not add more than 4 balls at a time.
- Fry each ball till it starts turning brown. Drain on tissue paper.
- Serve hot with chutney or tomato sauce.
Cant take my eyes from those prefect aloo bonda, how delicious they looks. Am sure these beauties will definitely please my tastebuds. Too tempting.
Perfectly round and delicious! Looks amazing; my favorite accompaniment for adrak chai!
These look so delicious… it’s raining here today and I am so tempted to make them for the breakfast along with a hot cup of ginger tea
Aloo bonda sounds spicy and delicious. Perfectly crisp from outside. Loved it awesome share.
Oh my… quite irresistible.. wish I could have some. Haven’t made them in a long time and like the idea of adding rice flour too to the batter to make them more crispy.
Thank you for explaining the difference between batata vada and aloo bonds. This sounds amazing with tempering and peanuts mixed in the filling! Lovely pictures too.
Ooooh these batata vadas are so tempting I am drooling right now want to bite into them just now, loved the detailed recipe have to make them soon craving for it now.
Looks similar to batata vada from Maharashtra but with a different name…yum yum
Looks absolutely scrumptious and so delicious. I love to have such snacks with tea and I am definitely trying this at home
oh gosh! Look at these Bondas, you really tempted me with this awesome capture of perfect Aloo bondas. I loved the spices and touch of lemon and crushed peanuts. What can I say, it so irresistible. Making these bondas soon. 🙂
The aloo bonda look so perfectly done ..round and crispy. Love your addition of peNyrs to the stuffing to give it a crunch. Great share.
You clicked aloo bonda beautifully in this long plate. Loved the recipe, bonda came out perfect I love your corn kabab recipe. Bookmarked. will try in this week.
Thank you Bhawna.Do try and let me know
What a scrumptious looking aloo bonda, perfectly made and shaped. Just need some masala chai now 🙂