Preparation time: 30 mins Cooking time: 25 mins Very delicious homemade balushahi sweet dish
Ingredients
For making dough
1.5 cup all purpose flour
¼ cup ghee (or less)
Pinches of baking powder
Pinches of salt
Water as needed
½ cup Refined oil (for deep frying)
For making sugar syrup
⅔ cup sugar
½ cup water
2 cardamoms, whole
8-10 sticks saffron
1 teaspoon lemon juice, optional
For garnishing
A few fine pieces of cashew nuts/ pistachio/almond/raisins etc
Instructions
Dough preparation
Mix all purpose flour, ghee, baking powder & salt properly
Now add water and try to make dough but it should not be soft, add little more water if ti is too hard (do not press the dough forcefully with your palm rather try to pull that dough from both side with your hands and make two parts then combine again, repeat it again & again)
Spread ghee over the dough and rest it for atleast 30 mins
Sugar syrup preparation
Boil water and then add roughly mashed cardamoms and wait for 30 seconds
Now pour sugar and stir it continuously till sugar dissolved in water completely
Add saffron & lemon juice and boil till sugar syrup becomes sticky (spread a few drops of syrup on a plate and incline it at 45 degree angle & check whether those drop are still sticky)
Now keep that syrup in a separate bowl
Balushahi preparation
Make 12-13 small balls with that flour made dough and keep one of those balls on your palm and press with another hand to flatten that ball
Press in the middle of that with your fingers from both sides to make holes
Now heat enough oil in cooking pot (kadai) and cook those over low flame till both sides of those balushahi turns into light brown
Now put those fried stuff into that sugar syrup for atleast 1 hour or more
Serve those hot or at normal temperature (garnish those with any nuts of your choice)
Notes
If you face difficulties to make prefect dough for balushahi then use curd to make dough along with all other ingredients and rest that dough atleast 1 hour or more to settle & slightly ferment.
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