Gujia are small dumplings of half moon shape, with outer covering made up of Maida and Sooji and inside stuffing is filled with various ingredients like grated coconut, ghee roasted dry fruits, grated paneer, mawa and many more as per your choice. It's a Holi special dish, mostly prepared in North India. It has many Nick Names based on the region like Karanji, Somasi etc.
They are made in the similar way as that of samosa with a little variation. The traditional ones were prepared completely sweet, dipped in sugar syrup after fried. But could be because of being Health-Conscious or to avoid the excess sweetness, people prepare it in a way with sweet stuffing only. This is one of my favorite in Holi, and in today's recipe I am going to share my favorite version of Gujia, stuffed with roasted dry fruits and Grated coconut.
This year because of Corona Virus fear, Holi is not so excited. Let's make these easy made tasty Gujiyas and Celebrate Holi inside home.
Ingredients :
✓ Take maida and sooji in a Bowl. Add ghee to it and mix nicely. Keep Mixing them using hand until flour starts binding. Add a pinch of salt to it.
✓ Keep adding water to it gradually and knead it to make a soft dough.Keep it covered for 20-30 mins.
✓ Now let's start with the stuffing
✓ In a pan heat 2 tbsp Ghee. Add roasted Peanut, cashew, almonds, bengal gram, sesame seeds to it and roast for 2-3 mins more in low flame. Don't over-roast the ingredients.
They are made in the similar way as that of samosa with a little variation. The traditional ones were prepared completely sweet, dipped in sugar syrup after fried. But could be because of being Health-Conscious or to avoid the excess sweetness, people prepare it in a way with sweet stuffing only. This is one of my favorite in Holi, and in today's recipe I am going to share my favorite version of Gujia, stuffed with roasted dry fruits and Grated coconut.
This year because of Corona Virus fear, Holi is not so excited. Let's make these easy made tasty Gujiyas and Celebrate Holi inside home.
Ingredients :
- 2 cups Maida
- 1 tbsp Sooji (optional)
- 4 tbsp Melted Ghee/Oil
- 1/2 cup Roasted Peanut Seeds
- 2 tbsp Raisins
- 3 tbsp Cashew Nuts
- 6-8 Almonds
- 1/2 cup Roasted Sesame Seeds
- 1/2 cup Roasted Bengal Gram
- 1/2 Cocont - Cut into pieces
- 4-5 Cardamom
- 1 cup Jaggery Powder/ Sugar as per taste
- Salt
- Oil to fry
✓ Take maida and sooji in a Bowl. Add ghee to it and mix nicely. Keep Mixing them using hand until flour starts binding. Add a pinch of salt to it.
✓ In a pan heat 2 tbsp Ghee. Add roasted Peanut, cashew, almonds, bengal gram, sesame seeds to it and roast for 2-3 mins more in low flame. Don't over-roast the ingredients.
✓ Blend all of these together along with some raisins coarsely, (please don't make it a fine powder) and transfer it all to a bowl.
✓ In the same blender jar, take the coconut pieces, add cardamom to it and grind well. To this, add the Jaggery/sugar and blend again nicely.
✓ Transfer these to the same bowl before and mix everything well again to prepare a nice and bind well stuffing.
✓ Now, knead the dough again nicely one more time. Make small balls out of it.
✓ Take one of them and using a roll-pin, roll very thin. With the help of a small round shaped bowl/bottle cap, make very small-circle shape puris.
✓ Add the stuffing now inside Puri. Close and seal the edges gently and press it so that the stuffing doesn't come out. Now give it a shape of Gujia by pressing the edges using a fork.
✓ Give shape to all the puris after filling the stuffing inside and keep aside.
✓ In the same blender jar, take the coconut pieces, add cardamom to it and grind well. To this, add the Jaggery/sugar and blend again nicely.
✓ Transfer these to the same bowl before and mix everything well again to prepare a nice and bind well stuffing.
✓ Take one of them and using a roll-pin, roll very thin. With the help of a small round shaped bowl/bottle cap, make very small-circle shape puris.
✓ Give shape to all the puris after filling the stuffing inside and keep aside.
✓ Heat Oil in a Kadai. Once the oil is hot, Add the stuffed Gujiyas one by one and start frying in medium flame one by one. Turn sides in between.
✓ Take the Gujiyas out once they are brown in color and transfer them on to a tissue paper so that extra oil is soaked up. Repeat the same for all.
✓ Gujiya is ready to consume for almost a month.
✓ Gujiya is ready to consume for almost a month.
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