Butter Badusha/Baalushahi

This is very tasty , traditional dish ,made during special occasions. Its very popular sweet , which can be easily prepared at home .

Ingredients

In a deep bowl or wide plate , Sift Maida. Add cooking soda and mix well .
After five minutes , add kesari powder and mix well. Add the butter and knead well for 5 minutes , continously.
Add water to make a dough. Add water gradually to get a soft , but firm dough.
Keep the dough covered , for 15 minutes.
After 15 minutes , roll out small golf balls of them and flatten them in your palm, one by one.
The flattened balls should be in 1/4″ thickness .
Press the centre of the flattened ball, with your forefinger to form a depression.
Heat ghee in a shallow wide pan and when it gets hot moderately , add the prepared badushas , three to four at a time .
The heat should be at lowest . Keep the flame at low heat throughout , while , deep frying . Oil / Ghee should’nt come to a smoking point.
When they puff up , turn them and fry, till both sides are light reddish brown.
Meanwhile , heat another bowl or kadai . adding 3/4 cups water and add sugar in it .Remove dirt if any , by adding a ladle of milk into the syrup.
With a ladle , remove the dirt , found in the sides of the pan.
When the sugaris dissolved well and froths up , add cardamom powder, saffron and pachaikarpooram.
Remove from heat.
Add the fried badushas in the sugar syrup .. Turn them well to soak up the syrup.
When well soaked , remove and arrange in a tray and sprinkle coconut gratings , to make them more attractive.

Note

Its not necessary to add coconut gratings . Its optional.
Kesari Powder too, can be avoided if you prefer a white look for the Badushas.
If the syrup hardens , add a tablespoon of water and heat.
Instead of butter , ghee can be added to the Badusha.
Half quantity of butter and half quantity of Khoa , can be added to the Badusha, to make it more tasty.
Make sure that cooking soda is added as per recipe . If too much is added the Badusha will break.
If Khoa is added , reduce the soda quantity to a pinch .
If the Badushas, do not puff up, then increase the quantity of the soda by 1/4 teaspoon.

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