Serving: 12 to 15 pieces |Type: Sweets
Ingredients:
Maida Or All propose flour | -1 ½ cup |
Crisco or butter | -4tbsp |
Baking soda | -¼tsp |
Salt | -pinch |
Water | -for knead |
Oil | -for frying |
Syrup:
Sugar | -1 cup |
Water | -¾ cup |
Method:
- Take a broad vessel add Crisco or butter and baking soda mix together using palm of your hand it becomes forthy and shiney. It will take about 10 to 12 minutes.
- Now sprinkle maida and salt gently mix it like crumbles.
- Now sprinkle water and make a soft dough. (it should be very soft, not hard dont knead the dough)
- Rest it for the dough about 10 to 20 minutes cover with wet cloth.
- Take a lemon size ball and flatten each ball and make a small dipression in the center with your thump.
- Shape all badushas like that and keep it aside.
- Take a pan heat with oil.
- Oil should be very moderately hot .
- Add few badushas and fry it on medium flame, don’t disturb it while frying the badusha , if its cooked, badusha will come up then turn it cook it until bothsides turn brown.
- Do It again on all badushas. Pierce all badushas with a toothpick in the centre. Because the sugar syrup will go inside.
- Meanwhile take another pan add sugar and water make the syrup.
- Sugar syrup should be one string consistency.
- If you test with your finger it will stick like one thread.
- Then turn off the stove. Let it cool for 5 minutes.
- Then soak the fried badusha for 5 minutes or until it absorb sugar syrup take out then arrange it on the flat surface.
- Meanwhile sugar syrup get very thick add ¼ cup of water and boil it then soak the badusha.
- Then take from the syrup and let it dry for 10 to15 minutes.
- Again do the process for second coating cook for thick syrup. If you want more sweet.
- If you like you can decorate on top of the badusha with nuts are raisins.
Note:
- While frying the badusha its melting in the oil means water is not enough for kneading the dough.
- Instead of butter or Crisco you can add pure ghee(clarified butter).
- If you are in India you can use Dalda.
- In india while making sugar syrup add 1tbsp of milk. Dirt will come up you can take out all the dirts.
- To maintain the temperature which is important for succesful badusha.