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Taler Bora Recipe | How to make Sugar Palm Fritters at home

The popularity of Taal or Sugar Palm has been for a long time among Bengalis and almost everyone in rural West Bengal.

Every Bengali household knows more or less how to make various recipes with this Taal, like Tal Bora, Tal Kheer or custard, Tal Luchi, pancakes, and many more.

But today you will get to know how to make Tal Bora easily at home.

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Taler Bora and other recipes made out of Taal are not only flavorsome recipes but this fruit is packed with essential vitamins and minerals.

Tal has many beneficial properties. It is a very beneficial fruit for the liver.

Taler bora is specially made on Janmashtami and traditionally it is served as the main prasad to Gopal or Lord Krishna.

So come let us see how to make Sugar Palm Fritters or the renowned Taaler Bora.

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Taler Bora Recipe (Home made Sugar Palm Fritters Recipe)

Swarnab Dutta
Recipe to make delicious Taler Bora at home. Simple ingredients, instructions, and equipment to prepare Bengali-style Sugar Palm Fritters easily.
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Prep Time 20 minutes
Cook Time 40 minutes
Total Time 1 hour
Course Snack
Cuisine Bengali, Indian
Servings 12 pieces

Equipment

  • 1 Induction Cooktop
  • 1 Kadhai

Ingredients
  

  • 3 cups sugar palm pulp
  • 1 cup coconut grated
  • ½ cup Atap rice powder
  • ½ cup Boiled rice powder
  • 3 cups All-purpose Flour
  • 200 grams sugarcane jaggery
  • 100 grams Sugar
  • ½ tsp Baking powder
  • ¼ tsp Salt
  • 500 grams Mustard oil

Instructions
 

  • To make the sugar palm or tal bora, take a corrugated steel vessel (the vessel in which boiled rice, chowmein, or pasta is strained ) and place it upright on the heavy aluminum vessel.
  • In a separate bowl, grind the palm kernels by sprinkling water.
  • Repeatedly sprinkle water and knead the whole kernel to extract the maximum pulp out of the sugar palms.
  • Mix 3 cups of pulp, grated coconut, molasses (jaggery), sugar, and a little salt and put it on low heat.
  • Keep it stirring for at least 10 minutes.
  • Now when the cooked palm is cooled, mix flour, two types of rice powder, and baking powder and knead it well.
  • If the batter seems stiff, you can mix milk kept at normal temperature to soften it.
  • Keep the mixture covered for 10 minutes.
  • Put the pan on the gas and heat the mustard oil.
  • When the oil is fuming hot, whisk the mixture once more and make small balls out of it and release it into the oil.
  • Fry on medium flame until the fritters or balls they turn dark golden in color.
  • Again in the next batch, increase the flame of the gas and leave the balls for a while.
  • Now reduce the heat, and fry it in the same way.
  • If fried in this way, the bora will be fried properly with perfect crispiness and there is no chance of getting burnt or over-fried.
  • And your sugar palm fritters will be perfect.
  • Strain Taler Bora from Oil and allow the excess oil to soak using newspaper or tissue paper or a kitchen towel.
  • Taler Bora tastes wonderful when served hot.
  • You can prefer to serve Taler Bora at room temperature too instead of serving hot.
Keyword Bengali Recipe, Homemade Recipes, Sweets

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This is how you can easily make Taaler Bora at home.

We Bengalis prefer to eat it ‘Bashi’ (or one day later), after preserving it in a container.

Undoubtedly, it tastes better if served after one day of its preparation.

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