Hello everybody, it is me again, Dan, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, coconut khoya gujiya. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Gujiya recipe with step by step pics. Gujiya is a popular North Indian sweet of a crisp, flaky pastry filled with a sweet khoya and dry fruits stuffing. But I do not add coconut to the khoya stuffing. Ingredients of Coconut Gujiya Recipe: Khoya, mava, coconut and pistachio stuffed in maida pockets, fried and dipped in sugar syrup.
Coconut Khoya Gujiya is one of the most favored of recent trending meals in the world. It is enjoyed by millions daily. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes delicious. Coconut Khoya Gujiya is something which I’ve loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook coconut khoya gujiya using 17 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Coconut Khoya Gujiya:
- Make ready For Filling
- Make ready 1/2 cup coconut grated
- Get 3 tsp semolina/suji
- Get 1 tbsp chopped cashewnuts and raisins
- Make ready 2 tbsp grated date palm jaggery or 3 tbsp sugar
- Take 2 tbsp khoya
- Get 2 tbsp milk powder
- Make ready 1 tsp ghee
- Make ready For Crust
- Make ready 1 cup all purpose flour/maida
- Prepare 2 tbsp wheat flour
- Take 1/4 tsp salt
- Prepare 1 cup oil for frying
- Take As needed water for kneading
- Prepare For sugar syrup
- Take 1/2 cup sugar
- Take 1/4 cup water
Whether it is a family gathering, festival or potluck, this light, and flaky Gujiyas are a serious. Gujiya is a sweet fried dumpling which is filled with a mixture of milk solids (mawa/khoya) and nuts. These mawa gujiya are the perfect festive treat, the addition of coconut makes them so special! Gujiya, Karanji, Karjikai or Kajjkayalu is popular Diwali or Holi sweet recipe.
Instructions to make Coconut Khoya Gujiya:
- Grate coconut.Heat 1 tsp ghee in a pan and roast semolina to light brown.Set aside.Heat 1/4 th cup water in a pan and boil date palm jaggery cubes till liquidised. Add coconut,semolina, khowa or kalakand and milk powder and toss till all moisture dries up.Add roasted dry fruits.Set aside and cool.
- In a mixing bowl mix maida with wheat flour and pinch of salt.Sprinkle 1 tbsp oil or ghee and 1/4 th tsp baking powder.Mix all till crumbly like bread crumbs.Add water little by little and knead into a stiff dough.If needed add 1/2 tbsp more oil and knead.Cover and let it rest for 10 minutes.Divide into lemon sized balls.
- Roll each ball into a thin round puri.Place a filling in the centre and wet the edges with water.Fold into a semi circular disc.Press to seal the edges in a gujiya cutter or press by hand and make designs along the edges with a fork.Heat oil in a pan and fry gujiyas in batches over low heat flipping it once one side is done and fry till crispy brown.Set aside in an absorbent paper.Make a syrup by boiling sugar till one string consistency. Let it cool.
- Dip the gujiyas in this syrup and transfer to a plate to cool.Transfer to an airtight container.Serve hot or cold gujiyas with tea or coffee.
These mawa gujiya are the perfect festive treat, the addition of coconut makes them so special! Gujiya, Karanji, Karjikai or Kajjkayalu is popular Diwali or Holi sweet recipe. Gujiya making is an art by self specially if we can sealing the edges by hand, my mom never used mould or fork to seal edges. This recipe for Mawa Gujiya is unique for Holi in India. Gujiya - Gujiya Recipe - Mawa Gujiya Recipe - How to make Gujiya.
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