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Badusha Recipe | Balushahi Recipe
Prep Time
5 mins
Cook Time
1 hr 10 mins
Soaking Time
30 mins
Total Time
1 hr 45 mins
 

Badusha Recipe or Balushahi Recipe is one of the favourites and simple sweet recipes of both North and South India.

Course: Sweets
Cuisine: Indian
Keyword: Badusha Recipe, Balushahi Recipe
Servings: 4
Calories: 120 kcal
Author: Uppada Lakshmi
Ingredients
  • Maida/ All purpose flour – 1 bowl
  • Baking Powder - ¼ tbsp.
  • Eating soda – ¼ tbsp.
  • Salt – a pinch for taste
  • Ghee – 2 tbsp.
  • Water – required to knead approx. 250 ml
  • Lemon juice – 1 tbsp.
  • Cardamom powder – ¼ tbsp.
Instructions
  1. In a mixing bowl add all-purpose flour, baking powder, a very little salt and eating soda.
  2. On other hand, melt ghee in a tadka bowl. Add ghee directly in flour and mix all ingredients with the help of a spoon as ghee is hot.
  3. Add little by little water and knead the flour to get a very soft dough.
  4. To get crunchy layer and soft from inside we need to knead dough to get soft and pliable.
  5. Place a lid on the bowl and keep aside so that flour absorbs moisture and becomes soft.
  6. Make sugar syrup by adding 1 bowl sugar and an equal portion of water.
  7. Boil syrup till you get thin and sticky syrup which can be observed by checking with two fingers.
  8. Once you get required concentration, off the flame before it turns thick syrup.
  9. Add little cardamom powder to get the essence and little lemon extract so that sugar syrup does not get crystallised.
  10. Knead the dough and make equal portions of dough to make a round shape.
  11. Take one portion and make round ball and press at the centre to form well kind of hole.
  12. Similarly, make remaining badusha and keep aside.
  13. In a pan add required oil to deep fry by keeping the medium flame. If the oil temperature is high they do not cook from inside, so they need to be cooked slowly.
  14. Once deep-fried transfer them into the sugar syrup and keep aside.
  15. Balushahi or Badusha Recipe takes 30 minutes to an hour to absorb the sugar syrup.