House Mom At Work: Aloo Bonda / Batata Vada

Aloo Bonda / Batata Vada is a snack stuffed with boiled mashed potato. Recipe is the same for Aloo Bonda and Batata Vada but the only difference is the shape. Stuffing in Aloo Bonda is like a round ball and in Batata Vada it is flat like tikkis.

Kids will love it because of the potato but make sure you don't put chillies while making these for them.

Here it is winter with temperatures dropping down and time for us to eat nice hot snacks during evening. So here is one more irresistible nice tea time snack for you. We like to eat it with our favorite coconut chutney.

Ingredients

For Stuffing

3 Potatoes

1 Onion

2 -3 Green chillies

1 sprig curry leaves

1/4 teaspoon Cumin seeds

1/2 teaspoon Urad dal

1/4 teaspoon Turmeric Powder

Salt to taste

1/2 Lemon Extract

For Outer Layer

1 cup Chickpea Flour / Besan Flour

1 tablespoon Rice Flour

Salt to taste

1/4 teaspoon Turmeric Powder

A Big pinch of Baking Powder

Oil for deep frying

Make the stuffing first. For that boil potato in a pressure cooker for 3 whistles. Mash the boiled potatoes. Chop Onion, green chillies and curry leaves.

Heat a pan with 2 teaspoons of oil, add cumin seeds and urad dal, when the cumin seeds start to splutter add chopped onion, green chillies and ginger. Add salt and turmeric powder. Saute for 5 minutes.

Now add mashed potato, cook it for 5 minutes sauteing every minute. Lastly add lemon extract, cook it for a minute and keep it aside to cool. Then make small lemon sized balls with the stuffing.

Now make outer layer. For that mix besan flour, rice flour, salt, turmeric powder. Add water to make a thick batter which can coated on to the stuffing. Heat oil for deep frying. Just before placing the balls in batter, add baking powder, mix it well. When oil is hot enough, place the potato stuffing balls in batter one by one.