Description:Balushahi (Urdu: بالوشاھی; Hindi: बालुशाही) is a traditional dessert in Northern Indian, Pakistani and Nepali cuisine, similar to a glazed doughnut. In South India, a similar pastry is known as Badushah.
One-inch-diameter (25 mm), 1⁄2-inch-thick (13 mm) discs are shaped with hands, fried in ghee or oil and dunked in thick sugar syrup so that there is a sugar coating. They are not very sweet, but tasty with a slightly flaky texture.
You can see hundreds of these on sale in takeaways and restaurants along Ladypool Road. Taken by pupils from Anderton Park School as part of a project looking at how Ladypool Road has changed over the last 100 years.