Sweet Boondi

Ingredients

Besan/chickpeas flour – 1 cup

Sliced almonds

Food color – orange and green optional

Sugar syrup

Sugar – ¾ cup

Water – ¾ cup

Cardamom powder – ½ tsp

Few strands of saffron

Method      

Make a sugar syrup and keep aside.

Take besan in a bowl, add water and mix till all the lumps are removed and the batter is of pouring consistency. Divide the batter into half and add green color in one batter and orange in another. Mix well.

Heat oil in a pan,

Take a perforated ladle, pour one spoon of this batter, the batter will drop like small balls in a pan, fry this for few minutes and put this in the sugar syrup. Mix it and garnish with sliced almonds.

Boondi Raita

Ingredients

Boondi – ¼ cup

Yoghurt – 1 cup

Sugar – 1 tbl.sp

Pepper powder – ¼ tsp

Red chilli powder and salt as per taste

Coriander leaves for garnishing

Method

In a bowl take yogurt, add to it sugar, pepper powder, red chilli powder and salt. Mix well.

Add salty boondi to it and leave it to soak for few minutes.

Garnish with coriander leaves and serve