Mawa Gujiya | Gujiya Indian Dessert | How to make Gujiya
Indian Cuisine
Ingredients
- 250 gms Brown Bread
- 60 gms Ghee/Oil
- 200 gms Homemade mawa (Khoya)
- 20 Almonds
- 0.25 cup coconut flakes
- 300 gms Sugar
- 300 ml Water
- 50 ml Olive Oil
- 20 Cashews - 18 to 20
- 1/4 tsp Salt
Instructions
- 1
Take 250 gms all purpose flour in a bowl. Add 1/4 tsp salt to it.
- 2
Add 60 gms ghee (Clairified butter) to it.
- 3
Prepare a soft dough. The dough should not be very hard nor very soft.
- 4
Cover the dough with a moist cloth.
- 5
We will use 200 gms Mawa/Khoya to prepare our Gujiya mixture
- 6
We will use 20 pieces of cahew, almonds, raisins and 1/2 cup dried grated coconut to prepare our gujiya mixture
- 7
Take 1 tsp ghee in a pan.
- 8
Roast the dry fruits and coconut in the pan. Do not roast it a lot.
- 9
Roast the mawa in a pan for a few minutes till it does not stick to the pan anymore.
- 10
Sugar Cyrup: Take 300 gms of sugar in a pan
- 11
Add 300 ml of water to it.
- 12
Heat the mixture on high flame. Keep stirring the mixture. After there is a boil, lower the flame.
- 13
Check the consistency of the sugar syrup. It should not be very thick nor should it be water like. You can add 1/4 tsp cardamon powder to the sugar syrup
- 14
Add 50 gms sugar to mawa.
- 15
Mix the dry fruits and mawa together. Add 1/2 tsp cardamon powder to the mixture.
- 16
Mix everything well. Your gujiya mixture is ready.
- 17
Start making small balls from the dough we prepared earlier.
- 18
Flatten the dough with a rolling pin. The flattened dough should be a bit thick.
- 19
Add some water to the end of the dough(this is important) and start filling the flattened dough with the mixture we prepared earlier.
- 20
Close the ends as shown in the image
- 21
Taper the ends of the uncooked gujiya as shown in the image. For more clarity on shaping the gujiya you can watch the video between 12:00 and 13:00.
- 22
There are different shapes that you can create.
- 23
Take oil in a pan for deep frying the gujiya. The oil should not be very hot or else the gujiyas will not be cooked properly from the inside.
- 24
After the gujiya turn light brown, take them out of the oil and add them to the sugar syrup immediately.
- 25
Make sure the syrup is warm hot or else the guy will not absorb the sugar syrup. Leave it in the sugar syrup before taking it out
- 26
Your gujiyas are ready. Garnish it with some dry fruits. Enjoy!!!
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