Diwali Sweets Recipe Collection
Gujiya Recipe
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Ingredients
for the gujiya pastry
for the khoya stuffing
- 1 cup khoya tightly packed, 200 to 220 gms khoya
- tbsp ½ghee
- cup ⅓chopped dry fruits 10 cashews, 10 almonds, 10 pistachios, ½ tbsp raisins
- cup ⅓powdered sugar or as required
- tsp ½cardamom powder or 6 to 7 cardamoms powdered in a small coffee grinder or a mortar-pestle.
Ingredients
for the gujiya pastry
for the khoya stuffing
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Instructions
Making the gujiya pastry
- In a bowl add flour, whole wheat flour and salt
- In a small pan, heat ghee
- Now take the ghee and add the the flour
- Mix the ghee with the flours using your hand and fingers. The texture should be bread crumb like.
- Now add water slowly and knead. Depending on the quality and texture of the flour, add water as needed.
- Knead the dough well until the it is firm
- Cover the dough with a wet cloth and keep aside for about 30 minutes.
Making the gujiya stuffing
- Grate the khoya/mawa
- Now take the dry fruits and chop.
- In a pan, heat 1/2 tbsp of ghee. Make sure the flame is low.
- Now add the grated khoya.
- Saute continously on very low flame.
- Once the khoya begins to gather around itself, switch off the flame and remove the pan from the stove. Let the mixture cool completely.
- Now, add powdered sugar, the chopped dry fruits and cardamom powder.
- Mix well and keep aside.
- You can taste and add sugar if required.
Preparing the gujiyas
- Take the dough you kneaded and divide into two halves.
- Using one half, make a medium log and slice into equal parts. Do the same for the other half.
- Now use your hands and roll each part to make balls. Put all the balls in one bowl and cover with wet cloth.
- Take your rolling board and lightly dust with flour. Roll each ball with a rolling pin to a small circle with 4 or 5 inches diameter.
- Now using your fingertip, apply some water around the edges of the circle.
- Take 1 or 1.5 tbsp of the filling and place on one side of the circle leaving the edges empty. Make sure not to add too much stuffing.
- Now bring both the edges of the circle together and press the edges together gently.
- Using a gujiya or pizza cutter, trim the extra edges. Make sure the gujiya is pressed and sealed well so that the stuffing does not come out.
- Prepare all in the same way. Cover with moist napkin so that the dough does not become dry.
- Baking the Gujiya
- Preheat your over to 200 degree celcius. Brush oil or melted ghee on all the gujiya
- Bake the gujiya for 20 or 30 minutes or until they are golden. Keep checking while baking.
- Once cooled, store gujiyas in air tight box.