Recipe for Gujiya is a North India Sweet Delicacy, Made with Maida flour and filled with delightful Khoya and dry fruits filling. The dumpling is then dipped in the sugar syrup for a sweet coating. Specially made during Holi Festival. It is similar to Karanji made in Maharashtra which has a coconut filling and made specially during Diwali.
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In India, Recipe for Gujiya is often served as a Sweet during festivals like Holi and Diwali. But if you don’t have access to these ingredients, here’s a recipe for making gujiya at home!
Gujiya is a traditional Indian Sweet Delicacy made from Maida flour and milk. It’s a delicious treat that everyone should try once in their lifetime. Watch as we prepare this delicious sweet and share some tips on how to make it even better!
How to make Recipe for Gujiya at home?
In a mixing bowl add all purpose flour, a pinch of salt and mix it well. Then add ghee and mix it thoroughly. The flour should bind together on pressing, if not then add some more ghee and mix thoroughly. Now add some water and knead a stiff dough, the dough should not be sticky or soft like chapati dough
Add water in portions. The dough is ready , Cover it and Rest it for 30 mins. Detailed recipe with step-by-step images and instructions below👇
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Mawa Gujiya Recipe
Equipment
- Frying Pan
- Deep Bottom Kadhai
- Mixing Bowl
Ingredients
- 1 Cup Maida or All Purpose Flour
- 3/4 Cup Sugar
- 1/2 tsp Cardamom Powder
- Pinch of Salt
- 150 grams Khoya
- 1/4 Cup Dried Fruits – Cashews & Badam
- 1/4 Cup Powered Sugar
- Few strands of saffron
- 4 tbsp Ghee
- 3 tbsp Dessicated Coconut
Instructions
- Ingredients image
- In a mixing bowl add all purpose flour, a pinch of salt and mix it well
- Then add ghee and mix it thoroughly
- The flour should bind together on pressing, if not then add some more ghee and mix thoroughly
- Now add some water and knead a stiff dough, the dough should not be sticky or soft like chapati doughAdd water in portions
- The dough is ready , Cover it and Rest it for 30 mins
- Take a non stick pan and keeping it on a low flame roast the Khoya by stirring it continuouslyRoast it until the color changes as shown below
- In a pan dry roast desiccated coconut for a while until it gets aromatic and changes the color slightlyTransfer it to a plate once roasted
- In the same pan add some ghee and roast the dried fruits
- Now lets make the sugar syrup – In a pan add 3/4 cup of sugar and add equal quantity of water
- Mix the sugar well and let it melt completely and let it boil
- Once it starts boiling add saffron strands and some cardamom powder and mix it well and let it boil
- Boil it and let it reach a sticky consistency like honey, We don't need string consistency for this syrup
- Mash the roasted khoya and mix it well to remove the lumps
- Add roasted dry fruits and desiccated coconut in the khoya
- Add powdered sugar to the mixture as per taste and mix it well
- Finally add some cardamom powder
- The Khoya filling is ready
- Now make lemon size equal portions of the dough
- Now roll a ball to form a puri
- Place 2 spoons of filling in one side of the puri
- Apply some water on the edge of the other side
- Close it from one side to another and press it gently from all sides
- Now design the edges by pressing and folding the corners
- One is done, lets make the rest similar way
- Heat enough oil for deep frying
- And fry the Gujiya until golden brown
- Once the Gujiya are fried well, remove them from the hot oil and add them in warm syrup
- Drop the fried Gujiya in warm sugar syrup P.S – Don't drop it in hot syrup , the sugar syrup should be warm and not hot otherwise it will become soggy
- Delicious & Mouth Watering Gujiya Ready…
1 Comment
Yummy 😋