In a medium bowl add flour, baking powder, ½ teaspoon sugar, baking soda,

and mix well to this add softened butter, yogurt. And mix well to resemble bread crumbs.

Then slowly add water to make rough dough. And set aside for resting.

Then make sugar syrup by boiling ¾ cup sugar and ¾ cup water until it reaches 200F or single string consistency. When it starts boiling add crushed cardamom and saffron and lemon juice.

Adding lemon juice will help the sugar syrup to remain sugar syrup and won’t let crystallizes while cooling. Set aside

Divide the dough into 10 equal pieces

make a round using your two palm then slightly flatten them into 4 inch round with a depression in the center

. Repeat and finish the entire dough and make it into 10 flatten rounds

Heat oil in thick bottomed pan, then when it reaches 350F to check oil is ready add a pinch of dough and it comes back to the top then it is done. Then IMMEDIATELY SWITCH OFF THE FLAME. Carefully add prepared flatten rounds.

When it starts floating its own on top of oil and switch on the stove and continue to cook until it becomes golden brown in color flip occasionally so that both sides cooks really well.

Remove from the oil and place it in kitchen towel to remove excess oil. Then immediately soak it in warm sugar syrup for 10 minutes.

You need to make sure that sugar syrup is warm otherwise it won’t penetrate into the cooked badusha. Remove from the sugar syrup and serve with salted toasted pistachio which is really nice combo.

Enjoy