Boondi
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Boondi, bundi, boondia or bundia is an Indian dessert made from fried chickpea flour. It is either eaten as a savoury snack or sweetened as a dessert.
Key facts
- Prepared food.name
- Boondi
- Prepared food.image
- Boondi Mithai.jpg
- Prepared food.caption
- Boondi Mithai
- Prepared food.alternate_name
- Bundi, Bundiya, Buniya, Bonde, Nukti, Boondia, Bundia
- Prepared food.country
- Indian subcontinent
- Prepared food.region
- Bangladesh India (Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Gujarat, Haryana, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Odisha, Kerala, Punjab, Rajasthan, Sindh, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal, Tamil Nadu)
- Prepared food.course
- Dessert
- Prepared food.main_ingredient
- Gram flour, sugar
- Prepared food.variations
- Khara or Kara boondi
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Boondi, bundi, boondia or bundia is an Indian dessert made from fried chickpea flour. It is either eaten as a savoury snack or sweetened as a dessert.
In Sindh and Rajasthan, the dish is called nukti (, Dhatki: نڪتي | नुक्ती). In Nepali, Bhojpuri region and Bihar it is referred to as buniya/bundiya (बुनिया/बुंदिया). In Bengal, it is called boorinda, bonde or bundiya (বুরিন্দা/বোঁদে/বুন্দিয়া).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Boondi” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.