Balushah / Badusha
Ingredients:
for dough:
- 250 gm Maida/All purpose flour
- ½ tsp Sugar
- ½ tsp Baking Powder
- 50 gm Ghee
- Water for kneading
- 50 gm Curd
- Oil for deep frying
for sugar syrup:
- 250 gm Sugar
- ½ cup Water
- Few strands of Saffron/Kesar
- ¼ tsp Elaichi powder
- Portion size: 10
- Serving size: 1
Nutrients
- Calories: 412.2Kcal
- Proteins : 2.7 gm
- Sodium: 26.3 mg
- Potassium: 26.3 mg
- Phosphorus: 32.4 mg
Procedure:
- In a large mixing bowl take 1½ cup maida, add ½ tsp sugar, ½ tsp baking powder, and combine well.
- Now, add ¼ cup ghee and crumble the mixture. Further, add ¼ cup curd and add ¼ cup water and start to make a dough without kneading. The dough should just come together. DO NOT make it like chapati dough.
- Make the sugar syrup till then by boiling sugar and water in a vessel till one string consistence. Add Kesar and elaichi after switching off the stove.
- Knead the dough gently after 15 min.
- Take a small ball of the dough and make it into a round ball. Make a dent at the center with the help of your thumb.
- Heat oil in a kadhai and fry the dough balls in medium hot oil on low flame till light golden brown on both sides. Drop them into the warm sugar syrup immediately and coat the badusha on both sides with sugar syrup and keep them for 5 minutes.
- Remove the badusha from the sugar syrup and serve warm. You can decorate them with pista and badam slices on top.