BALUSHAHI / BADUSHA

Sweet Make the festival sweetest. No celebration is complete with a lot of delicious sweets .Diwali is celebrated with a lot of delicious sweets that you share with your friends and family. Afterall, it is the sharing that makes it so joyful..!!!! This is really delicious and melt in mouth sweet and very easy to make. I never tried to prepare sweets at home till few years back. But from last 2-3 years I love to make most of the sweets at home only and avoid to bring them from sweet shop. Last week I prepared this for Diwali and it turned out so yummy and all enjoyed it at my place. Do try it when you crave for some sweets at home and let me know. I bet you will definitely like it.

INGREDIENTS:

250 gms Refined Flour

¼ tsp Baking Powder

50 gm Pure Ghee/Butter/ Dalda

100 gm Curd

A Pinch of Baking Soda

Oil for frying

For Sugar Syrup :

250 gms Sugar

1/2 cup Water

Few Saffron Strands

1 teaspoon Cardamom Powder 

METHOD:

STEP 1 – Mix maida, baking powder and baking soda and sift them in a bowl and mix it well.

STEP 2 – Add ghee/ dalda/butter and curd in a bowl. Whisk it to combine well and form a smooth paste.

STEP 3 – Rest it for about 10 mins.

STEP 4 – Now mix it with the flour mix and 

make a soft dough with light hands.

STEP 5 - Divide the dough in to small lemon size balls.

STEP 6 - Take one ball

and roll it in your hands and make dent in the centre of each ball.

STEP 7 – On the other side, mix water and sugar in a bowl and boil it.

STEP 8 - Bring it to boil and make a one string consistency syrup with it. Add saffron strands and cardamom powder to it.

STEP 9 - Heat oil in wide kadai on medium heat.

STEP 10 - Repeat the process and make all the balushahi.

STEP 11 - Add 2-3 balishahi in hot oil

and deep fry these balls in oil till they are golden brown in colour.

STEP 12 – Flip them when done from one side.

Using a slotted spoon remove them

and line on a kitchen towel to absorb excess oil.

 

STEP 13 - Do this with rest of the balushahi.

STEP 14 - Now add the prepared balushahi to the sugar syrup and coat on all sides.

STEP 15 - Keep the balushahi in the sugar syrup for about 2-3 mins to 1 hour and then remove them.

STEP 16 - Drain excess syrup and place on a plate to set. Garnish them with chopped pistachios

and apply some silver warq on it and serve.

Delicious melt in mouth balushshi or badusha are ready to serve.

NOTES: * Make sure the butter is well mixed into flour. You can use unsalted butter instead of salted.

             * Do not knead the dough, it just has to be mixed until combined. Adding pressure to the dough will let gluten form and the balushahi will lack its layers.

             * You can make the sugar syrup before hand and keep it aside. But while dropping balushahi in it heat it little, because we need warm syrup while adding the balushahi into it.

              * Add a little piece of dough to check if the oil is properly heated up or not. It will helps you to check the temperature of the oil.