Balushahi

Name: Balushahi
Cuisine: Indian
Ingredients: 1 cup all purpose flour; 1/4 cup Clarified butter; 1 pinch salt; 1/2 teaspoon baking powder; 1/2 cup water; Chopped dryfruits for garnishing; Oil for deep fry; For sugar syrup:-; 1 cup sugar; 2 cup water; 1/2 teaspoon orange food colour; 4 green cardamom

Saba Firoz Shaikh @sabaskitchen

Malad (West), Mumbai

Balushahi is a traditional dessert from the Indian subcontinent; popular in Indian, Pakistani, Nepali and Bangladeshi cuisine. It is a famous sweet of Harnaut of South Bihar. It is similar to a glazed doughnut in terms of ingredients, but differs in texture and taste. In South India, a similar pastry is known as badushah.

Saba Firoz Shaikh @sabaskitchen

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Ingredients

1 cupall purpose flour
1/4 cupClarified butter
1 pinchsalt
1/2 teaspoonbaking powder
1/2 cupwater
Chopped dryfruits for garnishing
Oil for deep fry
For sugar syrup:-
1 cupsugar
2 cupwater
1/2 teaspoonorange food colour
4green cardamom

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Steps

1

Mix ingredients all purpose flour, salt, baking powder, ghee
Make a rough dough adding little by little water.
Cover the lid and rest for 15mins.
2

Take wok add sugar, water, green cardamom and cook till sugar dissolve.
3

Add orange food colour in sugar syrup and mix it well. Switch off flame.
4

Take small portion from dough, grease palm make balls and flatten in between of palm, press the finger gently in the centre to make hole.
5

Heat oil and deep fry all the balushahi till it turn into golden.
6

Deep all the fried balushahi in sugar syrup for 10minutes.
7

Take out all the pieces from sugar syrup and keep on plain plate to set or wait until sugar coating dried on it.