Gujia

Gujia is a popular sweet dish of north India. Gujia is made, specially in the festival of Holi. Learn how to make/prepare Gujia, by one of the easy method / way.

Ingredients

For Making Dough

• Maida                        1kg
• oil                                250 gm
• Luke warm water      as required

For Filling

• Mawa (Khoya)                    1 kg
• Suji                                       250 gm      
• Sugar (Grinded)                 1 kg
• Almonds (chopped)            250 gm
• Cashew (chopped)             250 gm
• Chironji                                100 gm
• Magaz                                  100 gm
• Kishmish                               250 gm
• Coconut (grated)                  2
• Choti Elaichi (choppped)    8

Method

For Dough

Mix maida, oil and warm water to make a soft dough. Cover it with wet cloth to prevent the dough from losing moisture. Otherwise it will be difficult to roll them.

For Filling Mixture

Heat 2 tablespoons ghee and add the semolina or suji. Add the cashew nuts and almonds. Fry at medium flame until the suji turns slightly brown. Keep stirring, otherwise the suji may get burnt. Keep this aside.

Add another 2 tablespoons ghee in the frying pan and add the khoya. Fry for 2 minutes until slightly brown and then put off the burner.

Mix the fried mawa, sugar, fried semolina, finely chopped dry fruits  grated coconut, other ingredients and cardamom powder. You can increase the amount of sugar as per taste.

Now make small balls of the dough and roll one ball into a chapatti. The chapatti should not be very thin. Place this flat sheet on the gujia maker. Put 1 spoon of filling, smear the edges with water & Milk mixture (i.e. make a mixture of milk and water in a bowl) and carefully close the edges. Remove the extra dough from the gujia maker. Make all the gujia in the similar way, but keep all the gujias covered with a damp cotton cloth and the dough too.

Heat oil in the pan for deep frying. When the oil gets heated, add a pinch of dough in the pan. If it comes to the top, the oil is sufficiently hot.

Fry 5-8 gujia at medium flame for 5 minutes. Carefully turn both the sides until they turn golden brown. The gujias are ready.

Note: These can be stored in a air tight jar for 10-15 days.