Balushahi

Ingredients:

2 cups of all purpose flour (Maida)

1.5 tbsp of ghee

1.5 tbsp salt

Pinch of baking soda

1.5 cup of water to make dough and sugar syrup

2 cups of sugar for making sugar syrup and coating

Oil to fry

Method:

1. Take flour, baking soda, salt and ghee in a bowl. Mix them well to make soft dough. Add water while making the dough. Keep it aside for 1 hour at least.
2. After 1 hour make 7/8 round balls with this dough. Put any of your fingers to make a dent inside the each ball.
3. Heat oil in deep bottom pan and deep fry both the sides of each ball. Flip them carefully while frying. You can fry 3-4 balls at a time. Remove all fried balls from oil and keep aside.
4. Now make sugar syrup. Take 1 cup of sugar and 1 cup of water in a deep bottomed aluminum pot. Boil them till you find the sugar got dissolves in the water. It would take approximately 10 minutes. Keep all deep fried balls in the sugar syrup for 10/15 minutes. After that keep those balls (balushahi) aside. Your balushahi is made now.
5. If you want to make them sugar coated, you need to reserve the sugar syrup.
6. Take 3-4 tsbp. of sugar syrup in a pan and add 1 tbsp sugar to it. Boil and stir frequently till syrup thickens. Otherwise you can put your 2-3 fingers in hot syrup to check the thickness of the syrup. You will find a string appeared between your fingers.
7. Put balushahis in this sugar syrup one by one and gently stir for 10 minutes. Keep all balushahis aside over night or at least 6-7 hours. Next morning you will find bring sugar coating appeared on balushahis.