“Muttai bonda,” or “fried egg doughnut,” is a popular street food in India.

Ingredients

• 200 g of chickpea flour
• A pinch of baking soda
• 2 tablespoons of hot pepper powder (1 tablespoon of locally sourced hot pepper and 1 tablespoon of Kashmiri hot pepper)
• salt
• water, for the dough
• 5 hard-boiled eggs
• oil paint, for deep-frying

Combine the chickpea flour, bicarbonate of soda, chili powder, and salt, then gradually add water until you have a thick paste, but not too watery.

Cut the hard-boiled eggs in half.

Dip each half-egg into the batter.

Coat them in hot oil and fry until golden brown.