Badusha | Balushahi - Diwali Sweet Recipe

In southern part of India call as Badusha and northern part call as Balushahi - This sweet dish is so soft and flaky in texture and melts in your mouth. Its must have sweet dish during festival like Diwali. This recipe requires simple ingredients which are always available in our kitchen and you can able to prepare this dish very easily. Small balls are prepared from all purpose flour which are deep fried and dipped in sugar syrup to give it a sweet flavor.

This Badusha always reminds my childhood days. Usually in our city, light cuts off at 6 to 8 pm every 3 days and my father brings this sweet dish for us. We enjoyed the light cuts because of this sweet dish. Is it funny! Those were care free days and guilt freely we were gulping this wonderful sweet!

Ingredients:

For Dough:

All Purpose Flour / Maida – ½ cup

Baking  Powder – ¼ tsp

Baking Soda – a Pinch

Butter – 2 tbsp

Yogurt/Curd – 2 tbsp

Salt - a pinch (optional)

Oil for deep frying

Sugar Syrup:

Sugar – ½ cup

Water – ¼ cup

Lemon Juice – 2 tsp

Garnishing:

Chopped Almonds - 5 to 6nos

Chopped Pistachios – 6 to 7 nos.

Method:

Step 01) Take a bowl add all purpose flour, baking soda and baking powder sieve together to mix it well. Add butter and crumble it.

Step 02) Add curd and mix it lightly. Do not knead like a dough at this step (because at this step we don’t want to make gluten to form) Dough should look like flaky see the picture below. Cover the dough with lid and let the dough rest for 10 to 15 minutes.

Step 03) In low flame heat a pan add sugar little bit of water cook it till you get one string consistency syrup. Add little bit of lemon juice. Lemon juice helps the sugar syrup to avoid crystallization. Switch off the flame

Step 04) Take the flaky dough and knead it once again as smooth dough (Do not mix it too much, just all the dry flour is to be evenly mixed. Take the dough in to small size give a shape like ball and flat little bit and in the center make a dent from your thump ( ball should have rough edges when you fry and put it in sugar syrup, the syrup will go into all the small holes) So make sure balls should not have smooth edges

Step 05) Heat oil and fry them in medium heat till you get the golden color patches appear on both sides. Add them to sugar syrup. Let them to sit in the sugar syrup for couple of minutes and then put it in a serving plate and garnish with chopped almonds and pistachios.

Note:

Baking soda and baking powder helps to aerate the dough

No need to add extra water to dough, as Butter and curd itself gives enough moisture for dough

Lemon juice helps the sugar syrup to stay as sugar syrup. It will not solidify when cools down.

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Peanut Ladoo / Groundnut Laddu

This is one of simple, delightful and healthier version of sweet you can have any time without any guilt feelings. It is very easy to prepare and requires few ingredients and it always available in our pantry. Whenever I bought the peanuts, I always make sure to dry roast them and store it in a air tight container and use it whenever the recipe calls for. This time I completely forgot to use the peanuts for about two weeks and it was sitting whole container. As peanut and jaggary both are having potential health benefits. This is the awesome and simplest recipe to make use of them. It perfectly serves as emergency snack or mid morning hunger pangs :)

and this Peanut ladoo is also one of signature Diwali sweets.

Ingredients:

Peanut/Ground Nut – 1 cup

Jaggary / Brown Sugar – ½ cup

Optional Ingredients:

Salt – a pinch

Cardamom powder – ½ tsp

Cashew nuts few 

Method:

Step 01) Heat a pan and roast the groundnut nicely till they get light brown. You will get nice nutty flavor from peanuts and you will notice shiny oily skin of peanut that is the time you will turn off the gas. And allow them to cool.

Step 02) Blend the roasted peanut in a food processor and blitz until roughly chopped and then add the chopped jaggary and blend it again until the mixture starts to come together.  Repeat the same for the remainder of peanut and jaggary.

Step 03) Transfer this mixture to a big plate add a pinch of salt, cardamom powder, chopped cashews and mix it nicely and evenly.  Salt, Cardamom powder and cashew nuts are just to enhance the taste, fragrance and crunchiness to the laddo.  You can skip them totally, still the laddo tastes wonderful.  These are for value addition.

Step 04) Take a handful of blended mixture and gently press it together to form a shape of ball.  start to roll them as per your preferred size like big, medium or small.

Step 05) As the roasted peanut leaves the oil, there is no need of extra oil to roll them, if you still thought to make them richer, you can add little ghee/clarified butter while giving shape as ball/ladoos. 

Store it in a air tight container and enjoy the laddu.  

Note:

If you are looking laddos color to be white then, remove the skin of peanut before blending

You can use the powdered brown sugar instead of jaggary

For smooth texture of laddu blend the peanut as smooth powder instead of coarse powder

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How to Make Nan Khatai | Butter Biscuit/Cookie

The place I lived in my childhood, there was a bakery nearby our house and every Thursday they bake this ridiculously delicious cookies and it smelled so good, the whole lane smells awesome. Till date I could feel that aroma. Wow! what a smell it was. Flavor to be remembered. At last I learned the recipe and thought to give a try and it came out so good. Nan Khatai/ Butter Biscuit/ Butter cookie are light and fluffy and yummy nicely melts in your mouth. And it is one of the easy and quick recipe to satisfy your sweet tooth. Yes, it is not for the healthy conscious people but, once in a while to taste the divine is not bad isn't it? J But, you can make little healthy using wheat flour instead of all purpose flour or combination of both the flour. 

Nan Khatai

Ingredients:

Unsalted Butter – ½ cup (1 stick)

Cardamom Powder – 1/2 tsp

Nutmeg powder – 1/4 tsp

Powdered Sugar – ½ cup

All Purpose Flour/Maida – 1 cup

Baking Powder – 1/4 tsp

Salt – 1 tsp

Method:

Step 01) Keep the butter to room temperature till soft (not so watery). It should cut easily by spoon and mix it nicely

 

Step 02) Add the powdered sugar little at a time and mix it nicely

Step 03) Add the cardamom powder and nut Meg powder and mix it. This gives a nice flavor to the biscuit

 

Step 04) Take separate bowl and add All purpose flour, baking powder and salt stir it nicely so that everything incorporate nicely with flour

Step 05) Add the flour to cream sugar mixture little at a time and knead it nicely just like chapatti/Indian bread dough. It is lot softer than regular dough, because of butter.

 

Step 06) Wrap it in a plastic sheet and let it rest for 20 minutes. (All the species and salt should be nicely marinate to the dough so it is important that dough should rest)

 

Preheat your oven into 300 degree F

Step 07) Open the dough from the wrapper and give one more knead

Step 08) Take a baking tray use parchment paper or foil. Grease the foil with butter for easy removing of the biscuits/cookies. (For parchment paper no need of greasing)

Step 09) Divide the dough into small balls (size is how you like them to bite) round them into nice ball shape. Make sure there is no crack in them.

Step 10) Place them on a tray and make sure to give enough distance between each cookie.

Step 11) Garnish with pistachio. Take few pieces and just press on top of the cookies

Step 12) Bake them in oven for 15 to 20 minutes. Keep eye on them you just need light golden brown.

Step 13) Remove the tray from the oven and let it cool down for 10 minutes and Enjoy 

 

Note:

• If you use salted butter you can skip the salt
• Always try to use the nut Meg as whole and grate them whenever the recipe calls for it. Ready made Nut Meg Powder loose its flavor easily on shelf
• If there is a crack in the balls it opens wide after baking. So make sure diligently give them nice round shape
• Set the rack in middle of the oven. Don’t place the tray up or down or side to the heating coils. Always keep it in center.

Butter Biscuit

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Wheat Flour Laddu /Atta Ladoo

Just like any other laddu/ladoo you can prepare laddu from wheat flour. I have used the coarse wheat flour which is available in Indian store or you can use the regular plain wheat flour. Wheat is always known for its health benefits and here is a high energy sweet dish, which you can prepare very easily and quickly.

Ingredients: 

• Wheat Flour – 1 cup
• Sugar – ½ cup
• Ghee/Clarified Butter – ¼ cup
• Cardamom Powder – 3 tsp
• Raisins or cashew nuts – 1 tbsp
• Milk – ¼ cup

Method:

Step 01) Heat a pan with ghee and fry the raisins & cashews and transfer them in to a plate

Step 02) Add wheat flour in the same pan remaining ghee and roast the wheat flour nicely till u get aroma or flour turns to golden brown (make sure not to burn it)

Step 03) Turn to low flame and add cardamom powder and sugar mix it nicely and turn off the heat

Step 04) Allow the mixture to cool a bit yet warm add 1 tablespoon of milk to small portion of mixture and prepare the laddo and continue this same process till u consume all the flour and turn them in to delicious ladoos 

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Quick and Easy Diwali Sweets and Diwali Snacks Recipes

Wants to make this Diwali a memorable occasion? How about having it with some special Indian sweets and snacks? Here are some quick and simple Diwali Sweet recipes and Diwali Snacks recipes for you to choose from. Click on the thumbnail of the recipe to learn more about it. 

        

       

   

         

        

        

         

         

         

        

        

*~ HAPPY DIWALI TO ALL  ~*

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