Sweet Boondi / Meethi Boondi Recipe

Step 1: To prepare Sweet Boondi/Meethi Boondi Recipe, take gram flour/besan in a sifter and sieve it

Step 2: In a Mixing bowl, mix gram flour, baking soda with water

Step 3: The batter should be little thick, a bit thinner than normal bajji batter

Step 4: Take a big ladle full of batter for orange color in a separate small bowl

Step 5: Add orange food color to the batter in the small bowl, yellow food color to the batter in the main bowl and mix both well separately

Step 6: This is an optional step, only if you are adding food colors

Step 7: 2 Slotted ladles are needed

Step 8: One for making boondi and another for draining boondi from oil

Step 9: Now heat oil for deep frying

Step 10: Oil should be moderately hot

Step 11: To test, drop a pea size batter in the oil, batter should rise immediately without changing color which means oil is ready for frying boondis

Step 12: Now hold one slotted ladle just over oil (neither too low nor too high)

Step 13: Use another deep ladle to pour batter over slotted ladle

Step 14: Pour one ladle full of batter over the slotted ladle and spread in a circular motion by the back of the deep ladle

Step 15: The batter will fall drop by drop

Step 16: Fry them till little crispy

Step 17: Drain and place them on a paper towel to absorb excess oil

Step 18: Repeat the process with rest of the batter

Step 19: Then make sugar syrup from 3/4 cup sugar & 1/2 cup water of 1 string consistency by bringing it to boil

Step 20: Add in cardamom powder, mix well to make syrup

Step 21: Add the fried yellow and orange boondis into the syrup

Step 22: Gently toss them and mix till boondis are well coated in sugar syrup

Step 23: Let this set for 1-2 hours until the sugar syrup is completely absorbed by Sweet Boondi / Meethi Boondi Recipe and the sugar in the syrup is crystallized

Step 24: Store Sweet Boondi/Meethi Boondi Recipe in an air-tight container and serve as needed, as asweet munch after meals