Mysore Bajji or Flour Fritters

Name: Mysore Bajji or Flour Fritters
Total time: 2400 s
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: Indian
Ingredients: 1 cup flour/ maida; 1/4 cup rice flour; to taste Salt; 1/4 teaspoon baking soda; 1/2 teaspoon cumin seeds; 1/2 cup yoghurt (sour dahi works best); 3/4 cups water; 1 teaspoon ginger finely chopped; 1 tsp green chilli finely chopped; 2 tablespoons cilantro finely chopped; Oil to fry

Harjeet Kaur @cook_13349754

#Monsoondelights
The sweltering dog days of sun-drenched roasting days are gone and the rain-drenched earth makes us crave for something hot and fried. It is time to take out the oil pot and fry some savoury dumplings, isn’t it? And that’s what I did; I made piping hot Mysore bajjis to welcome the season’s first showers. I made a plateful of these golden nuggets and nibbled on them while sitting on my favourite chair on the patio sipping my ginger-mint tea and reading a book.The same dumpling has different names but popularly it is called as Mysore bonda or Mysore bajji.
In Andhra Pradesh, we make it for breakfast and as an evening snack. As a kid too I preferred Mysore bajji to idli or vada. Served hot with coconut chutney they are crisp on the outside and fluffy and spongy on the inside. Mysore bajjis are fried dumplings made with flour, rice flour yoghurt and spices. Kids love them as they are not spicy and they make a tasty treat for any party or snack for tea time. I am not a big fan of deep fried snacks but I succumb to these spongy globules which are so yummy. It takes only 10 mins to assemble and just 30 minutes to rest and then it is deep-fried to get a really crispy and yet soft bonda. It was raining since last night and when I woke up in the morning I felt like eating Mysore Bajji for breakfast and went about mixing the batter for it and sat with the newspaper in the patio until it had risen a bit.

Harjeet Kaur @cook_13349754

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Ingredients

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4 servings

1 cupflour/ maida
1/4 cuprice flour
to tasteSalt
1/4 teaspoonbaking soda
1/2 teaspooncumin seeds
1/2 cupyoghurt (sour dahi works best)
3/4 cupswater
1 teaspoonginger finely chopped
1 tspgreen chilli finely chopped
2 tablespoonscilantro finely chopped
Oil to fry

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Steps

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Method
To make the batter, mix all the dry ingredients together, plain flour, rice flour, salt, baking soda, and cumin seeds. Add yoghurt mix well add the water to make a thick batter. Add the ginger, green chilli, and cilantro.Set aside for about 30 minutes. The batter will rise and become light and fluffy.Heat the oil on medium heat. There should be enough oil in the pan so that the bajji gets dunked in well.
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Check if the oil is hot enough by sprinkling a drop of batter in oil. If the batter sizzles and pops up. If the oil is very hot the bajjis will be red on the outside and raw on the inside.
Dip your fingers in the batter and drop big globules into the oil. Fry bondas in small batches. Fry them until golden-brown all around. This should take about 3-4 minutes.
3

Mysore bajji should be crispy from outside and should be soft inside.
Serve these Mysore Bajji or Flour Fritters or hot-hot balls of yumminess with Coconut Chutney.