Aloo Bonda

Recipe: From Charu.

Makes: 19 Bondas.

Ingredients:

• Pakora / Pakora Batter (bit thicker than that)
• Potatoes --- 4 big
• Green Chilies --- 5-6 small
• Onions --- ½ of the big one
• Salt --- as per taste
• Turmeric Powder --- a pinch
• Coriander Leaves --- 10-15 strands
• Lime --- ½ of the big one

For Seasoning:

• Oil --- 2 tblsn
• Mustard Seeds --- 1 tsp

Process:

• Peel and chop potatoes into cubes and cook them in salted water for 3 whistles by adding a pinch of turmeric powder. Wait till the pressure goes away. Drain the water by using colander.

• In the mean while, mix pakora batter but make slightly thicker than that.
• Heat 2 tblsn of oil in a pan.
• Add a tsp of mustard seeds and let them pop nicely.

• Add finely chopped green chilies and fry for a while.

• Now add chopped onions. Fry till the onions turn to translucent.

• Add potatoes and mash them with a ladle. Adjust salt.

• Just before turning off the flame add lime juice and chopped coriander leaves.

• Let it cool.
• Make small round balls with the potato filling.

• Heat oil in a steel pan for deep frying the bondas.
• When the oil is at right hot, dip the potato balls in the pakora batter and drop them gently into the hot oil.

• Fry them till they are golden brown. Remove them and keep them on a paper towel to remove the excess oil. Even though they are deep fried they take very less oil.

• Have / Serve them when they're hot.