Badusha - Diwali special

Ingredients required:

• Maida - 2 cups (You can use Allpurpose flour for this too)
• Baking soda - 1 tsp
• Curd - 1 cup (Use Danon's plain yogurt if you are in US)
• Ghee or Dalda - 1 cup ( I personally prefer ghee as it tastes better :-)
• Vanilla essense - Just a few drops
• Oil to fry the badushas.
• Sugar - 3 cups
• Water - 1 - 1 1/2 cups

Cooking Method:

• Blend together Maida, curd, baking soda , a pinch of sugar and ghee(or dalda) with a blender or with your hands to make a nice dough.
• Keep this aside for about 15 minutes covered with a cloth.
• Make small balls out of the dough and press or flatten them.
• Press the centre of the above flattened balls so that it forms a depression. This will help the badusha to absorb sugar better.
• Now prepare sugar syrub by adding sugar and water in a bowl and heating it. Add the vanilla essence to this.
• Let it boil until you get the consistency of one string (Pagu should be 1 string pagu).
• Now heat oil in a pan and start frying the badushas.
• Pl note that the flame should be in medium or sim, otherwise the badushas will not cook properly.
• Wait until the badusha turns golden brown. It does take time as you are setting the flame to medium or sim.
• Now add the badusha into the sugar syrup and let it abosrb sugar for about 10 min.
• Take out the badusha and place in a large plate.

You can garnish the above with coconut strings or tutty-fruitty or other nuts.