Mawa Gujiya Recipe
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.
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...
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Notes
While making guijiya, if you are unable to design its edges you may just press it with a fork too
Make sure the sugar syrup is just warm while dropping the fried Gujiyas in them , If you drop gujiyas in hot sugar syrup then they will turn soggy