Badusha

Badusha Recipe

1.all purpose flour-3 cup

Salt-1/2 tsp

Mix together

2.Butter-100 gm

Oil-3 tbsps

Melt the butter.Add the oil.

3.Baking soda-1 tsp

Sugar-4 tsp

Yoghurt-4 tbsp

Add to the butter mixture

4.water-1/2 cup

Add the flour to the above mixture and add water and make a smooth dough.Let this rest for 10 minutes.

Meanwhile make the sugar syrup

5. Sugar-1 1/2 cup

Water-1-4 cup

Boil this together.When this reaches one string consistency add juice of a lemon and 4 cardamoms crushed to this & off stove.

While sugar is boiling you can make lemon size balls with the dough and heat a kadai with enough oil to deep fry the balls.

Once the oil is heated,take the ball in your palms ,lightly flatten it & press the center to form a light depression.

We don't want the badushas to get browned soon in hot oil at once.So when the oil heats up,We add 3-4 discs into the hot oil and remove it from fire(I usually keep it over the next burner,which is off ) & let it cook in the heated oil.Once the heat substantiate,place the kadai over the fire & cook the other side on medium heat.We do this to get the discs / badushas evenly cooked inside .Once it's browned on both sides remove it and dip in the sugar syrup and let it remain in it till another batch is fried & ready to be dipped in. Once it's coated with sugar syrup,remove and place on parchment paper or plates.After 2 hours you can see a white coating over your badushas.

I don't like this white coating of sugar on my badushas .So what I usually does is to Off the sugar syrup just before it attains one string consistency and add the lemon juice and cardamom powder.For this you might need some practice .