Badusha Recipe

Badusha – a well-liked South Indian sweet made with plain flour, butter, yogurt. These bite size Indian sweet can also be often called Balushahi. Mini bite size patties is fried till crispy and soaked in sugar syrup to create crispy yet flaky layers. Follow all the guidelines and tricks for the proper badusha to rejoice this Diwali with a special sweet note.

Badusha

I do know all of us could be very busy on this festive season. And all of us need some easy sweet recipes readily available to make it work. This recipe could be really easy to make and taste so amazing.

Badusha has been requested on this blog for quite an extended time. I even have tried badusha so over and over and it has never failed me. All you wish is to follow few suggestions and techniques to create flaky layers. Check this detailed blog post to learn all the guidelines and tricks.

About Badusha (Balushahi)

Badusha or Balushahi is a well-liked Indian sweet which is a must try for this Diwali. Badusha is a sweet sugary dripping sweet. It’s made with basic ingredients like flour, butter, sugar and baking soda. The techniques is what makes it unique and flaky.

Badusha looks very much like glazed doughnuts. But the feel shouldn’t be spongy, as an alternative it’s moist and soft with flaky interior and sugary exterior.

Balushahi is made with a flour, butter dough, much like a shortcrust pastry dough. However it has yogurt and baking soda added. Dough is split into small pieces, rolled into balls, flatten barely and fried till crispy. Fried doughnuts is soaked in sugar syrup to create a sugary interior.

Badusha Method

• Make dough
• Take small portion, flatten it.
• Fry till golden brown.
• Make sugar syrup.
• Soak the badusha in syrup.
• Serve.

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Badusha Ingredients

Plain Flour – refined flour is used for making dough. Wheat flour can’t be substituted for plain flour.

Butter & Oil – mix of soppy butter and oil creates flaky layers. Butter and oil is mixed with curd and sugar. That is mixed with flour to create short crust pastry.

Sugar – little amount of sugar is added in dough and made into syrup.

Curd | Yogurt – Tenderises the dough and makes flaky balushahi.

Baking Soda – helps to make balushahi soft. Don’t add an excessive amount of baking soda.

Find out how to Make Badusha (4 Easy Steps)

Making Dough

Cream butter, oil, sugar, yogurt and baking soda together. Add flour and blend into the butter. Add in water little at a time and blend till smooth dough. Let it rest.

Making Sugar Syrup

Cook sugar with water till one string consistency. Flavour as per your requirement and put aside warm.

Shaping Badusha

Divide into small balls. Flatten it and make a dimple in the middle.

Frying Badusha

Fry badusha in low medium hot oil till golden and crispy. Remove and add to syrup. Strain the badusha and garnish with chopped pistachios.

Expert Suggestions for Soft Badusha

• The ingredient measurement are very essential. For those who mess with that then your badusha will get hard.
• Don’t add an excessive amount of oil or butter, in the event you add an excessive amount of of them, then your badusha will crumble once you drop them in oil.
• Don’t knead the dough a lot, just knead it till it gets little soft and leave it aside.
• The dough needs to be soft but very easy to work with. It should not be sticky.
• Resting the dough is very important.
• Don’t let the oil smoke at any point. Frying badusha can take a while, so be patient and fry on a low heat till it’s nicely colored.
• You’ll be able to store the badusha at room temp in an air tight container for two to three days. Refrigerate it for more shelf life.

Find out how to Make Badusha (Stepwise Pictures)

Making Badusha Dough

1)Take some soft butter in a bowl, you may melt them if needed, I used white butter. You should use unsalted or salted butter.

2)Add in oil. Addition of oil in badusha dough makes it flaky and soft.

3)Add in curd or yogurt.

4)Add in sugar. Since I used unsalted butter, I added a pinch of salt in my badusha dough. For those who are using salted butter you may skip salt. Mix sugar into the butter, curd and oil mixture till it dissolves.

5)Add in baking soda.

6)Mix curd and butter mixture with baking soda. Mix baking soda till it gets foamy.

7)Add in plain flour.

8)Rub the plain flour into the curd and butter mixture till it resembles crumbly texture.

9)Add a splash of water and convey the dough together.

10)Don’t over knead the dough, just with gentle motion knead the dough till soft. Now let the dough rest for 15 mins till you make the sugar syrup.

Making Sugar Syrup

11)Take sugar in a sauce pan.

12)Pour in water over the sugar.

13)bring it to boil, and cook till 1 string consistency.

14)For those who take some syrup between your thumb and fore finger and stretch it. one string should form. That is the stage.

15)Now add in cardamom powder and keep the syrup warm.

Shaping Badusha

16)Now take the dough and divide it into small balls.

17)Take a portion of dough. Roll it right into a smooth ball, don’t press an excessive amount of when shaping into ball.

18)Flatten it and make a hole within the centre. The outlet will helps to forestall the badusha from cracking.

19)Do that for all of the badusha dough.

Frying Badusha

20)Now heat oil for deep frying. The oil should never smoke, the warmth must be moderately hot. First test the oil, drop a small dough into the oil. First it should sink , then rises immediately. That is the correct temperature.

21)Drop 4 to five badusha at a time and immediately reduce the warmth to the bottom as possible.

22)Cook for 7 to 10 mins till is light golden colored and cooked. Don’t increase the flame. It needs to be all the time on low.

23)Once the badusha is fried. Dip the fried badusha in sugar syrup for couple of minutes on both sides.

24)Remove the soaked badusha on a plate and put aside for couple of minutes for the sugar syrup to harden.

25)Serve.

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