Balushahi(बालूसाही मिठाई)–Tikri-Khurmi Sweet Recipe- Indian Sweet Dish- Badusha Mithai

Ingredients –

1. All-purpose flour/Maida – 1 cup
2. Ghee / butter / oil – 2 tbsp for kneading
3. Vegetable oil for deep frying
4. Baking powder – ½ tsp.
5. Few thread of Saffron (kesar) (soaked into warm water)
6. Sugar – 2cups (as per your taste)
7. Cardamom powder or whole cardamom – 3-4
8. Pistachio, almonds, or other dry fruits – for garnishing

Method –

• Add Maida and baking powder in a bowl and mix it.
• Add  ghee into the maida and mix it well, it will look like bread crumbs after mixing.
• Add little bit of water and knead the dough, if required add bit more water and knead.
• Cover it and keep it aside for 15 minutes.
• Add 2 cups sugar, 1 cup of water and whole cardamom into the pan to make sugar syrup.
• Add soaked saffron, and cook it until all the sugar dissolves into the water and become little thick (approx. 4-5 minutes).
• When the syrup is ready, turn off the heat.
• Check with your fingertip, when you see 1 thread of the sugar syrup between your fingertips, it means sugar syrup is ready.
• After 15 minutes make small balls from the dough, roll it between your palms and press with your thumb in the middle of it.
• The edges will be rough so that they get crispy from inside as well. Make the balls with rest of the dough.
• Heat oil into the pan/khadhai on low heat.
• Fry Balushahi on low heat, you need lot of patience while frying, if you increase the heat this might remain uncooked from inside.
• When it starts floating in the oil, flip the balushahi until it turns golden in color. You have to fry this on low heat.
• Take the fried Balushahi out of the oil.
• Dip the fried Balushahi, 4-5 at a time into the warm sugar syrup for 10 minutes and transfer to another plate.
• Balushahi is ready, garnish with grated Pista and serve.