Cuisine Style: India | Cooking Time: 30 minutes | To Serve: 2 | Type: Sweets, diwali festival special

Ingredients

• Maida / All purpose flour / wheat flour– 1 cup
• Butter – 4 tbsp
• Ghee – 1 tbsp
• Oil – 1 tbsp
• Sugar – 1 tbsp
• Salt a pinch
• Curd – 1 tbsp
• Water as needed
• Oil & ghee for deep frying

Sugar Syrup

• ¾ cup sugar
• 1 cup water
• Green cardamom – 3
• Lemon juice – ½ tbsp

Preparation

• Sieve the flour without lumps.
• In a bowl add butter, curd, sugar, & salt beat well. Then add ghee, mix well.
• Add flour & water mix well, knead & make soft smooth dough.
• Then add oil knead it again, cover it & leave it for 5 min.
• For sugar syrup add water & sugar in a pan mix gently & let it dissolve.
• Then add cardamom & let it boil 7 min to get string consistency then add lemon juice to avoid crystallization. Then cut off heat.
• Divide the dough into equal size balls. Then press gently in the middle of the balls like doughnuts.
• Then make decorative edges around the balls like kai / hand muruku or we can make designs using knife or mould.
• Heat oil & ghee in a pan, put pieces one by one & deep fry on medium flame.
• Once fried flip over & cook another side.
• Once it’s turned light brown take it out. Drain on an absorbent paper.
• Immediately place in to the sugar syrup & leave it for 2 min. Then take it out & cool it in room temperature.
• Once sugar syrup fully absorbed & totally dried then store it in an airtight container & use within 5 days

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How to make Badusha / Balushahi -Step by step photos

Maida / all purpose flour

Sieve the flour

In a bowl add butter curd

Add sugar

Add pinch of salt

Add ghee mix well

Add maida mix well

Add water mix well

Add water litttle by little knead it & make soft dough

Add oil knead it, cover it, and leave it for 5 min

Badusha dough is ready

For sugar syrup add sugar in a pan

Add water mix well let it boil

When boiling add green cardamom and leave it for one string consistency then add lemon juice & cut off heat

Shape equal size balls

Press gently in the middle and make cavity - 1 [Easy shape]

Make decorative flower shape-2

Heat oil put prepared pieces and deep fry till light brown on medium hot oil

Once its ready take it out and drain on absorbent paper

Immediatly place it in to the sugar syrup leave it for 3 min then take it out & let it cool in room temperature

Badusha flower shape 3

Take lemon size ball then press in the middle

Smooth and stretch the edge

Fold

Stretch the edge from first fold then again fold it

Make decorative foldings around the edge

Badusha shape-4

Deep fry till light brown

Once its perfectly fried and golden brown take out drain on absorbent paper & place it in sugar syrup for 3 min & Then take it out & cool it in room temperature.

Once sugar syrup fully absorbed & totally dried then store it in an airtight container & use with in 5 days-Decorative badusha sweet

badusha

Inside view of badusha sweet

Balu shahi sweet

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