BALUSHAHI RECIPE

Ingredients :

For Balushahi

 

Maida (All purpose flour): 6 cups

Baking soda: ½ teaspoon

Cardamom powder: ½ teaspoon

Un-salted Butter or Ghee: 1 Cup

Dahi yogurt: ¾ Cup 

For Syrup

Sugar: 8 Cups

2. Water : 3 Cups

For Garnish

  Crushed Pistachio nuts: ½ Cup 

Method

•   Bring water to a boil. Add sugar. Cook syrup till you have a two thread consistency. 
•   Mix dry ingredients Maida, Baking Soda and Cardamom.  

      

•   Cut in butter resembling bread crumbs. 
•  Add Dahi (yogurt) 1 Tablespoon at a time and knead to form very stiff dough. 
•  Divide dough into 1 to 1½ balls. 

       

•  Preheat vegetable oil in the  deep kadahi.
•  Press the dough ball into a Patty. Depress the center slightly. Don't put a hole as in doughnuts, just deep depressions.
•  Fry it till golden brown. Use tongs to dunk the doughnuts in the syrup and remove them. 

     

     

•   Sprinkle crushed pistachios over the doughnuts.( Its optional)