Badhusha
- 19
- December
- 2009
Badusha:
Nothing says ‘Happy Holidays’ like a home made sweets, right. Just like you all, I have lots of sweet memories.
I vaguely remember grandma making them during summer vacation. It used to be melt-in mouth kind. I do not really remember that much about my grandma, so I am not going to get senti’or anything. What I do remember is…she was an amazing cook and always stayed in the kitchen. My mommy swears, that I inherited cooking gene’ from her and it skipped a generation!(Even though my mother cooks well, we always had a cook in the house…as Mom have health issues). So, mommy never made them herself…but gave me the exact recipe with lots of tips and suggestions. Here you go…
Ingredients:
All purpose flour
Baking soda
Sugar
Ghee
Ghee/oil for deep frying
Dessicated Coconut grated(I colored them myself…but be careful while playing with chemical colors)
Method:
Make a thick sugar syrup, set aside.
Mix ghee and baking soda thoroughly…now add flour to it. Knead them like a soft smooth dough.
Divide them into equal parts.
Gently press them at one end.
Now deep fry them till golden o reddish brown. Check whether it is cooked thoroughly.
Immerse them in warm sugar syrup…cook mildly over low heat. Once they bulge, remove from heat.
Garnish with colored coconut flakes.
What I did is…took some handful of grated dessicated coconut and immersed them in different organic food color solutions and washed them several times…to get rid of the excess color. So, it ended up neat.
Hey Malar, thanks for dropping by. The badusha’s look so succulent!!! They have turned out purrrrfect, wish I could grab one, I’m craving something sweet right now
Wow. .. malar this is a tempting treat!! Delicious presentation too!
looks delicious,i have never tried this sweet dish so far,looks really nice and loved the colourful flakes on top of it..
this is called Balushahi in the North . n is not garnished with coconut shreds traditionally ( i’d avoid colored ones in any case )..
the texture is very flaky , like a tart shell with sugar crystallized after cooling n it breaks with just a little press …so soft n flaky..
i could never succeed making the perfect texture as i always end up using less ghee for health reasons…:)
Any special reason for not giving the measurements???
looks so pretty and yumm
Looking very nice malar that too with colourful coconut gratings.
Lovely Sweet dish..I think this is speaciality of rajasthan
My mom used to prpr yummy sweets…. I never gave try to such sweets…. they luk tempting
First time hearing and seeing this
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Badhusha looks so cute..
Badushah is one of lifelong favorites! They are so droolworthy and awesome! *Psst!* Secret! It’s coded-hvmw nv gsv rmtivwrvmgh’ izgrlh erz nb v-nzro hvxivgob! Use the alphabets in the reverse way!
one of my favorites..we call it Balushahi..
looks so yummm and cute!
ohh..yummy Badhusha..great pics too..
Oh yum, that is so tempting! I wish I had more patience to make things like this!
Lovely looking badushas…. Really yummy & perfect too….
Hey wanted to tell u about the roomali roti- the first pic, please don’t mind, really not being mean….but it made me laugh as I wondered what was a turtle doing on a plate….It was only later, I read the title….But it really looked so….I do not mean to hurt u or something of that sort…but that really made me smile..hence thought would share it with u too….
And yes, the way I addressed u …. I know u are a sweety pie… Here in India, some AD has that caption…I think Idea cellular… “What an Idea SIRJI”…hence punched in that….Just that….
Take Care… Love,
Ash….
(http://asha-oceanichope.blogspot.com/)
Lovely sweet….Haven’t tried at home though tasted it many a times
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Badhusha looks delicious.. this is a new dish to me though but great clicks
Ur badhusha luks tempting and colourful too:-))Hey here we call it balushahi…i like that sweet but never tried at home.
Has come out perfect. You truly have inherited your Grandma`s gene.
This is a new one to me dea..!! Recipe sounds great and they look so cute and yummy…
.Gud to hear that 
So you got ur cooking skills from ur Grandmom.this wat my grand mom says abt me too
Tempting pictures Malar…I have not had these for quite sometime…since we moved here
my hubby loves badusha too…I think I should try badusha using your version …looks tempting 
Looks so yummy. This is one of my favorites.
Tats a nice one….reminds me of my mil- she makes really good balushahis.
Dear Malar
It looks like Balushahi and should be the same. It is my favorite sweet and always have to buy from market. I have stopped trying to make it as I could not control the flour to ghee ratio, oil temperature for frying, rate of heating of the oil etc etc.It had been a disaster always, with a hard limp inside ;-(
If you give a quantitative procedure I may try again. I dont mind adding great amount of Fat as I am not a party to the oil/fat hoax going around the country side.
Have a nice week ahead
It looks delicious and it actually sounds easy too!
Wow ma fav sweet….Bookmarking this dear…
I went through your blog, taking my own sweet time today…..Very thrilling was the experience…..Lovely preps….All mouthwatering of course…..
Following u too…
Ash…
(http://asha-oceanichope.blogspot.com/)
wonderful presentation and a great recipe…I don’t know if I can cook it myself…good job
Looks enticing. The cooking gene sure runs in your family!
Love the color!! Looks very tempting
My all time fav. dear……..ur badushas came out so good……lovely treat for holidays……yummy…yummm.
wow my fav sweet looks so mouth-watering…. nice recipe malar will try this soon..
badusha looks awesome!!
Badusha is my fav sweets…looks yum!
Thanks for the award
these look yummy
Fantastic looking badusha. I had tried this 4 times and only failure. Can u please give measurements for Ghee, Maida
Seeing tis sweet after a very long time..thanks for sharing Malar…
Wow the badhusha I love it .. and that tooo fresh one looks so perfect and yummy too..
hey Malar,
these looks so nice and beautiful!!
Dear Friends,
Thanks for the other name of this sweet ‘Balushahi’…now it sounds really like sweet:)
B/n lot of people have asked me the measurements, I feel awful…that I didnt make a note of it, while palying with this recipe. This is the first time…I ever tried it, just engineered without any thumb rule.
Although I could say…the more the flour, the more the Badhushas:) use more ghee to knead the dough, let that appear all glossy. And never press them too hard. Sugar syrup should be extra thick. Hope this might help:)
Thanks for your valuable comments:)
wow, wow and more wow. wat a neat detailed description. hats off
Very cute badushas dear. So nice that you engineered your own version. I m drooling:)
These sweets look swesome. Thanks for sharing the recipe with all of your foodie friends.
Ur Balushahis look so gorgeous and inviting. Hats off to you for trying this Indian sweet. I’ve had it b4 but never had the courage to make them myself. But now who knows I might just dare and make some …lol.Happy Holidays .
These are one of my fav. Looks so tempting. Nice step by step pictures
hey malar, lovely badushas love them, they look tempting, can i pick one up, nice step by step pics too.
Badushas arelooking gorgeous, nicely moist and elegantly presented with those colourful coconut strands ( great idea)!!
My amni( grandma) was a great cook too but I had the priviledge to be present beside her (though I was a kid)whenever she did some savouries and sweets for xmas. (She used to do in big quantities with those gigantic sattis every year and distribute to her family & friends, like we do for the festivities in India). I’ve always treasured some of her maniacs & ways to do certain things.
This badusha is one of those sweets she does too; I’ve never dared to do this at home, I don’t know why, maybe afraid it would go wrong… for your first time, you’ve done it amazingly good.
I’m on the queue too for the measures
:) maybe I can try it during these holidays!!!
Thank you so much girls.
Malar badusha looks very yummy.
mouthwatering sweet.
Malar I couldn’t leave comments on posts yesterday…so re doing it again today.. Your Badshah looks so moist and the colorful toppings is a hit..
very tempting….was thinking if I’ve ever eaten these….than read sangeeta’s comment…yes i know this by the name ballushai….& sure love them….
Lovely badusha,looks soft & perfect
My Mom always used to make it during Diwali time Malar. I love this sweet and don’t mind having a lot of it as it is not as sweet as other Indian sweets. Good to know the traditional recipe for this
. Been ages since I had this actually. Might even try it soon 
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Sorry, this is not what I’d call an “exact recipe”. You havent given quantities for the ingredients! How much flour? How much sugar? etc.
Cool Malar. I have to try once more like urs.