Sweets & festival foods · Harnaut, Bhagalpur and across Bihar

Balushahi

A fried flour sweet with a layered, porous bite and a sugar-glazed exterior.

RegionHarnaut, Bhagalpur and across Bihar
SeasonCelebrations
TableVegetarian
Also writtenबालूशाही

Balushahi is shaped from flour and fat, fried slowly and glazed with sugar. Its appeal comes from a surface that gives way to a layered, slightly crumbly interior.

Versions appear across northern India. Bihar’s atlas should focus on locally reputed centres and makers rather than claiming the entire form for one place.

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