Ingredients

• 2 cups - besan (chick peas flour)
• Orange food colour (optional)
• Ghee or oil, to deep fry
• 2 tbsp - raisins
• 2 tbsp - cashew nuts
• 1.5 cup - sugar
• 1/2 cup - water
• 1/2 tsp - cardamom powder

How to Make Sweet Boondi

• Mix besan with water and make a thick batter as for pakoda or bhaji.
• Add colour (optional).
• Heat oil or ghee till moderately hot.
• Hold a large perforated ladle over the oil and pour some batter on it. Small drops of batter will fall into the oil and puff up like beads.
• Fry till they are just crisp. Drain on kitchen paper.
• Use up all the batter thus.
• Fry the raisins, cashew nuts in the same oil or ghee and add to the boondis.
• Mix sugar with water and prepare a two thread syrup. Add cardamom powder.
• Add the boondi mixture and stir till the syrup coats the boondis.