Holi is round the corner and without gujiya , the celebration is incomplete. This festival treat your guests with home made gujiyas . You can store them too to enjoy after Holi.
Ingredients:
- Refined flour (maida) 2 1/2cup
- Thickened milk (mawa) 250 gm
- Sugar 1 cup
- Cardamom powder (elaichi) 1/2 tsp
- Almond (badam) 10-12
- Raisins (kishmish) 10-12
- Clarified butter (ghee) for frying
Method:
- Fry thickened milk in a pan until it turns light brown and then remove it from the flame.
- Now grind sugar to a powder and finely chop the almonds.
- Mix sugar, almonds, raisins, cardamom powder and thickened milk.
- Keep in mind that sugar is to be added only when thickened milk gets cooled.
- After this add 5 tbsp ghee in thickened milk and knead into hard dough with water.
- Make small rounds of it and roll them into small chapattis.
- Take 1 tbsp thickened milk and spread on the chapattis.
- Put some water on the corners so as to seal them and then press them with your fingers.
- Now heat ghee in a pan and deep fry all gujiyas at low flame from both the sides.
- Take them out and mawa gujiyas are ready to serve.
Recipe by Chef Manoj Rai, Corp. Chef Pind Balluchi
