Balushahi is one of the traditional Indian sweets. It is usually made for weddings and festivals in India. Balushahi is a deliciously crunchy deep-fried dough disc that is cooled and then soaked in sugar syrup. Sweet and full of texture balushahi are time-consuming to make but the happiness you will get with the first bite itself is well worth it. Moreover, this popular Indian cuisine dessert can be stored for a few weeks without batting spoiled. You should really try this recipe and let me know how it turns out for you.
AuthorShweta KumariCategoryIndian, sweet dishDifficultyIntermediate
Take a bowl to add refined flour, baking powder
Mix well
Add ghee
Mix well again
Add cold water make the dough
Make sure you just bind it to keep aside for 10 to 15 minutes to set
To prepare sugar syrup
Take a pan to add sugar
Add water to it, turn on the flame
Cook until the sugar dissolves in water
Stir it time to time
Intervals check it the last drop of sugar syrup should form a single thread sugar syrup is ready
Add cardamom powder and soaked saffron stir once
Keep aside cover it so that it doesn't cool down quickly
After 15 minutes dough is set and ready
Squash is slightly rolled it
Cut it Keep dough layered
Again Squash it and cut it
Keep dough layered by layered
Break the lump of dough make a roll from it and cut it a small ball
Make a small balls
To shape the balushahi, lift a dough ball
Give it a round shape press it and make a bit hollow from both side
Place the shaped balushahi in a plate, make all balushahi likewise
Heat up a pan with ghee or oil
Check if the oil is sufficiently hot
Fry on low to a medium flame when golden brown from below
Flip them slightly increase flame and fry well
Until golden brown from all sides
When fried take it out the balushahi
Drop it in warm sugar syrup. dipped in sugar syrup for 2 hours
Tasty balushahi are ready
