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Kerala Style Kappa Bonda is boiled tapioca dipped in spicy besan (kadalamavu) batter and deep fried. It is perfect as an after school snack or as an appetizer.
Bite sized tapioca balls is another version of Mysore Bonda; which is made with boiled potato. Tapioca is cooked and mashed and made into small balls and dipped in besan (kadalamavu) batter and deep fried. Just the way potato is done for Mysore bonda.
It all happened, when a dear "uncle" of mine sent me a grainy mobile picture of "Kappa Bonda" which he had at a high end hotel in Kochi. To him finding "kappa/tapioca" in star hotel was surprising as it is commonly known as poor mans meal...(well that was decades ago!!)...anyways, uncle inspired me to try out this and I…
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