Ingredients:

Method:

• Take a large bowl, add the all purpose flour, baking soda, sugar, baking soda and combine well.
• Add the butter into the flour and mix well.
• Add milk little by little and make a smooth dough without any lumps.
• Keep kneading the dough for 10 minutes continuously. ( the more u knead the dough the more flaky the badushas would be)
• Once you knead set aside for 15 minutes.
• Meanwhile make the sugar syrup.

• Mix water, sugar, cardamom and saffron in a wide mouth pan.
• Now boil the mixture until you get the syrup consistency. (about 10-15 minutes)
• Make sure there is no thread formation in the sugar solution.
• Stir in the rose water, lemon juice and set aside. (Adding lemon juice prevents the sugar syrup from crystallizing)

• Take the dough and divide it into lemon sized balls.
• Now take a ball pinch the edges and fold it inwards to make rims decoratively as shown in the picture.
• You can also simply make the shapes like mini doughnuts.

• Heat oil or ghee in a kadai or pan. 
• Make sure that the oil doesn't fume at any point.
• Check the oil temperature by adding a pinch of dough into the oil or ghee, if the dough rises immediately, then it's the right temperature.
• Add the 2-3 badushas at a time in the oil or ghee carefully.
• Remove the kadai from the flame and then let the badushas cook. (Doing this the badushas will not be burnt and also will be cooked completely from inside)
• Cook for 5 minutes until the badushas float and then again put the kadai on flame.
• Now again cook the badushas on medium flame until it turns golden brown. (It took around 5-6 minutes for me)
• Drain the badushas on paper towel if you are frying in the oil and then add it to the sugar syrup.
• If you are frying in the ghee or dalda then immediately add them to the sugar syrup.
• Let it soak for 15-20 minutes.
• Do not refrigerate badushas.
• Once it cools down remove them from the sugar syrup and transfer them to a container.
• You can store them in room temperature for a week.

Video for how to shape Badushas