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    Sweet Boondi Recipe

    Last Updated On: Sep 24, 2025 by Aarthi

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    Sweet Boondi Recipe with step by step pictures. This recipe is an Indian sweet recipe with crisper surface and sugary juice within.

    Sweet Boondi

    Even though i have made so many new recipes to post here specially for diwali. I didn't make bulk to give it as gifts for relatives and friends..Today i started making new dishes to give for friends, I made oats murukku, roasted gram dal murukku and motichoor ladoo. Tomorrow i am gonna make carrot burfi, custard powder halwa and jangri..No worries somehow i managed to take pictures of it. Will share them as soon as possible..

    Ingredients for Sweet Boondi

    • Gram Flour / Kadalai mavu / Besan - 1 cup
    • Baking Soda / Cooking Soda - ⅛ tsp
    • Yellow Food Coloring - a pinch
    • Water - ½ cup + adjust accordingly
    • Oil for Deep Frying

    For Sugar Syrup:

    • Sugar - ¾ cup
    • Water - ½ cup
    • Cardamom Powder / Yelakai Podi - 1 tsp
    • Cloves / Krambu - ½ teaspoon powdered
    • Yellow Food Colouring a pinch

    For Seasoning:

    • Cashewnuts - 10 broken into small pieces
    • Sultanas / Kishmish - 15 pieces
    • Ghee - 1 tsp
    • Cloves / Krambu - 2
     
    Sweet boondi was on my todo list for quite a long time. Finally i made it yesterday and it turned out to be perfect. I made kara boondi and boondi ladoo on the same day as well. 
     
     
    I hope you will love this and let me know how it turns out for you..

    How to Make Sweet Boondi Recipe

    1. Take gram flour in a sifter and sieve it. Add in water and mix to a smooth batter.
    2. Add in water slowly and make it into a smooth batter. Now add in some baking soda and food coloring. Mix well.
    3. The batter should be little thick, it should be thinner than bajji batter. Make the batter perfectly then only you will get round boondi.
    4. Now heat oil for deep frying.
    5. Now take a boondi karandi or a perforated ladle. Hold it over oil.
    6. Pour a ladleful of batter over the karandi and spread it out. The boondis will fall drop by drop.
    7. Fry the boondi till they are little crispy. Drain them and set aside.
    8. Take sugar and water in a pan, mix well so it is melted. Bring it to a boil and cook till it attain a single string stage.
    9. When you take the spoon from the syrup and see, the last drop falling from the syrup form a single string like consistency.
    10. At this point, take it off the heat and add in cardamom powder, clove powder, food coloring and mix well.
    11. Add boondis to this syrup and mix well.
    12. Now Heat ghee in a small pan, add in cashews and fry till it is light golden, add in raisans and fry till golden, add in cloves and mix well.
    13. Pour this over the boondi and mix well.
    14. Let this set for 2 to 3 hours until it gets crystallized and non-sticky. Then Serve.
     

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    Sweet Boondi Recipe

    Sweet Boondi Recipe with step by step pictures. This recipe is an Indian sweet recipe with crisper surface and sugary juice within.
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    Prep Time 10 minutes mins
    Cook Time 20 minutes mins
    Total Time 30 minutes mins
    Course Dessert
    Cuisine Indian
    Servings 2 cups
    Calories 311 kcal

    Ingredients
      

    • 1 cup Gram Flour / Kadalai mavu / Besan
    • ⅛ teaspoon Baking Soda / Cooking Soda
    • Yellow Food Colouring - a pinch
    • ½ cup + adjust accordingly Water
    • Oil for Deep Frying
    • For Sugar Syrup:
    • ¾ cup Sugar
    • ½ cup Water
    • 1 teaspoon Cardamom Powder / Yelakai Podi
    • ½ teaspoon powdered Cloves / Krambu
    • Yellow Food Colouring a pinch
    • For Seasoning:
    • 10 Cashewnuts broken into small pieces
    • 15 pieces Sultanas / Kishmish
    • 1 teaspoon Ghee
    • 2 Cloves / Krambu

    Instructions
     

    • Take gram flour in a sifter and sieve it. Add in water and mix to a smooth batter.
    • Add in water slowly and make it into a smooth batter. Now add in some baking soda and food coloring. Mix well.
    • The batter should be little thick, it should be thinner than bajji batter. Make the batter perfectly then only you will get round boondi.
    • Now heat oil for deep frying.
    • Now take a boondi karandi or a perforated ladle. Hold it over oil.
    • Pour a ladleful of batter over the karandi and spread it out. The boondis will fall drop by drop.
    • Fry the boondi till they are little crispy. Drain them and set aside.
    • Take sugar and water in a pan, mix well so it is melted. Bring it to a boil and cook till it attain a single string stage.
    • When you take the spoon from the syrup and see, the last drop falling from the syrup form a single string like consistency.
    • At this point, take it off the heat and add in cardamom powder, clove powder, food coloring and mix well.
    • Add boondis to this syrup and mix well.
    • Now Heat ghee in a small pan, add in cashews and fry till it is light golden, add in raisans and fry till golden, add in cloves and mix well.
    • Pour this over the boondi and mix well.
    • Let this set for 2 to 3 hours until it gets crystallized and non-sticky. Then Serve.

    Nutrition

    Nutrition Facts
    Sweet Boondi Recipe
    Serving Size
     
    1 g
    Amount per Serving
    Calories
    311
    % Daily Value*
    Fat
     
    3
    g
    5
    %
    Saturated Fat
     
    2
    g
    13
    %
    Polyunsaturated Fat
     
    0.1
    g
    Monounsaturated Fat
     
    1
    g
    Cholesterol
     
    6
    mg
    2
    %
    Sodium
     
    72
    mg
    3
    %
    Potassium
     
    2
    mg
    0
    %
    Carbohydrates
     
    75
    g
    25
    %
    Sugar
     
    75
    g
    83
    %
    Protein
     
    0.01
    g
    0
    %
    Calcium
     
    3
    mg
    0
    %
    Iron
     
    0.04
    mg
    0
    %
    * Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.
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    Sweet Boondi Recipe Step by Step

    Take all your ingredients
    Take gram flour in a sifter
    sift it well
    add in water
    mix well to a smooth batter
    add in food colouring and baking soda
    mix well
    It should be smooth and little thin than bajji batter
    Now make sugar syrup, take sugar in a frying pan
    add in water
    mix well till it is melted
    bring it to boil, and cook till 1 string consistency
    syrup done
    This is the consistency
    add in powdered cloves
    add in cardmom powder
    yellow food colour
    mix well, syrup done
    heat oil for deep frying
    you can make boondi in boondi karandi
    or you can use normal perforated ladle...
    pour a ladleful in
    spread it out slowly
    now fry the boondis till it is crispy
    drain it
    perfect boondis
    add in straight to the syrup
    mix well
    heat ghee in a small pan
    add in cashews
    fry till golden
    add in kishmish
    couple of cloves
    fry till golden
    Add it to the boondi
    mix well
    allow this to cool down
    The sugar will form crystals after it cools
    serve
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    1. saipriya sivakumar

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      Hi aarthi, just a small suggestion on this boondhi making. While preparing the batter, first check before you start pouring it into oil. Take a spoon and at the backside of spoon dip the batter and try dropping few drops in oil. If it is perfect balls then you have the perfect batter. Or else you need to add water into the batter and try the same trick. This works well when you need perfect round boondhi😃
      Hats off to your efforts for keeping this blog so interesting and. lively😃

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    2. Tamizh

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      Can we add brown sugar to prepare sugar syrup

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