Badhusha
By: Saraswathi Ganeshan
Published: Tuesday, December 7, 2010 - 7:05pm

Ingredients




For dough:
2 cups All purpose flour
1/4 cup Butter/Ghee
2 teaspoons Sugar
Salt- A pinch
Cooking Soda- A pinch
1 ounce 
For Syrup:
1 cup Sugar
1 cup Water
Oil for frying

Preparation

1 Mix Flour, Salt, Sugar & cooking soda well. 2 Melt Ghee with Oil and add to the flour. 3 Using your hands Knead the dough softly. 4 If require add water little by little and make a soft dough as we do for Chappathi dough. 5 Rest it for an hour & make small lemon size balls. 6 Slightly flatten them with small depression in center. 7 Rest it for 5 mins, Meanwhile heat Oil in a kadai or Pan for frying in medium heat. 8 Drop Badhusha s in batches & lower the heat. Let it cook in low heat itself. 9 Carefully turn over them & cook till it turns golden brown colour. 10 Side by, prepare sugar syrup with sugar & water to one string consistency and turn off the heat. 11 Add cooked badhusha to sugar syrup & leave it for 1 minute. 12 Remove the dipped badhusha & let it cool. 13 Store in Air tight container. 14 Note: Use same measurement to get soft Badhusha. 15 It is Better to keep more oil, So badhusha will float & cook completely. If you want white coated badhusha then  Keep on stirring the 1 string consistency sugar syrup till it form cloudy syrup after removing from heat . Soak the badhusha in cloudy sugar syrup for 3 mins and remove, keep it in grease plate to cool. 16 After cooling, with help of oiled platted knife take the badhusha carefully & store it in a container.

About


Badhusha is a traditional sweet of India made usually in most of festivals. It is a doughnut made out of flour & coated with sugar syrup. After trying various methods of preparing badhusha, I found this measurement  is perfect to get soft badhusha as we get in Krishna sweets. Try this & let me know.