Vegetable bonda

Vegetable bonda is an awesome snacks which can be served with coconut chutney. As it is prepared with all the vegetables, it provides all the essential minerals and vitamins in tasty pack.

Ingredients

1. Gram flour - 1 cup
   
2. Rice flour - 1 cup
3. Mixed vegetables - Carrot, beans, potato and Soaked peas
4. Chilli powder - 1 tsp.
5. Urud dal - 1/2 tsp.
6. Mustard seeds - 1/2 tsp.
7. Curry leaves

Makes : 12 bondas

Preparation time : 30 minutes

To prepare mix:

• Mix gram flour, rice flour, chilli powder, asafoetida powder and salt.
• Add sufficient water to make paste.

To prepare Bonda:

1. Heat oil in a frying pan.
2. Put mustard seeds, curry leaves, bengal gram and chana dal and let the mustard seeds splutter.
3. Add carrot to the pan and pour water. Add chilli powder ( and if needed, a little garam masala powder ( 1/2 tsp.)). Add salt as needed.
   
4. Once carrot is cooked, add potato and peas and fry till the mixture coats the vegetable. Make sure that the mixture does not contain much water otherwise it will be difficult to make balls.
   
5. Let the vegetable mixture cool for sometime and then make balls of the size of lemon.

1. Pour oil in a kadai.
   
2. Dip the balls in the paste and fry the balls till it is deep brown.