Badushah
Recipe type: Dessert
Cuisine: Indian
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Serves: 12 badushahs
 
Badushah/Balushahi is a traditional dessert item made using maida or all purpose flour and very popular in Indian, Nepali and Bangladeshi cuisines.
Ingredients
  • All purpose flour or maida - 2 cups
  • Baking soda - ¼ tsp
  • Salt - ¼ tsp
  • Ghee - ¼ cup
  • Yogurt – 2 tbsp
  • Oil – for deep frying
  • Almonds – 5 nos
for sugar syrup:
  • Sugar – 1 ½ cup
  • Water - 1 cup
  • Saffron strands – a pinch
  • Lemon juice – ¼ tsp
Instructions
  1. Sieve the flour, baking soda and salt together into a large bowl.
  2. Next add in the ghee and combine the flour and ghee to coarse crumbs using your hand.
  3. Add in the yogurt, knead just enough until all the ingredients come together.
  4. Cover the dough with a wet muslin cloth or in airtight container and allow it to rest for about 30 minutes.
  5. Divide the dough into 12 equal portions of large lemon size balls. Gently make a dent in the center with the thumb. Cover the dough portions with a wet cloth or airtight container and allow them to rest for another 15 minutes.
  6. Meanwhile combine sugar and water in a small sauce pan. Allow it to boil and add the saffron strands. Allow the mixture to simmer until you get a single thread consistency.
  7. Next, heat the oil for deep frying and add few balls at a time into the oil. Fry them on medium heat - The medium heat helps the Badushahs to cook evenly from the inside.
  8. When they start to float up to the surface flip over and fry until the bottom half is golden brown. Once both sides are browned well, drain and continue the same with the remaining dough portions and add them to the sugar syrup.
  9. Allow the Badushahs to rest in the sugar syrup until it gets well absorbed and coated all around. Leave it to rest for atleast fifteen minutes and then continue the same step for the rest of the Badushahs.
  10. Garnish the Badushahs with chopped almonds and serve them. Enjoy! 
Notes
1.You will know that the sugar syrup has reached the single thread when you touch the syrup between your fingers and you find it sticky.
2.Remember to fry the dough on medium heat and not high heat so it gets evenly cooked from the inside.
Recipe by MyEdibleCravings at http://myediblecravings.com/badushah/