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Balushahi/Badusha

About the Recipe

Balushahi (or Badusha) is a traditional Indian sweet dessert recipe prepared mainly with maida or all-purpose flour, deep-fried in ghee or oil, and soaked in sugar syrup. This recipe shows how to make badusha at home using simple ingredients. We have used Oddy Ecobake, which can be reused multiple times, to transfer the sugar syrup-soaked badushas without too much grease to your serving bowl.

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Ingredients

 

  • Maida -2 cups, Sugar- 2.5 cups,
  • Ghee-1.25 cup, Curds -2 tbsp,
  • Water-1/2 cup + 2.5 cups Saffron, Red food colouring (optional),
  • Elaichi/cardamom, 2 pinches of salt and
  • 2 pinches of baking soda, Pistachios,
  • Oil for frying
  • Oddy Ecobake

Directions

 

  • Sift the flour, salt, and baking soda into a bowl, add the ghee, and mix well. Add curd and mix well. Add water gradually to adjust consistency to the crumbly dough and knead. Cover and let it rest for 15-20 minutes.
  • To make sugar syrup, add 2.5 cups of water with the sugar and bring it to a boil until you get a one-string consistency. You can add red food colour if you prefer. Add saffron and crushed elaichi to it. Switch off the flame.
  • Pinch the dough and make small balls from it, pressing them gently between your palms. Make a small depression on them either using your thumb or the back of the lighter.
  • Fry the badushas in medium-hot oil until golden brown on a low flame. Drop the fried badushas into sugar syrup and let them soak for some time. Transfer the soaked badushas to a plate lined with Oddy Ecobake, which can be reused.

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Akshaya Pathre

Asha Gowry along with her son run a food channel by the name of Akshaya Pathre. Cooking is their passion. The channel has 136k+ subscribers.

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