Gujiya recipe / holi special gujiya recipe:

GUJIYA is a traditional sweet of North India. These deep-fried sweet dumplings are made of maida or refined flour and filled with a dry fruits and khoya or mawa mixture and are specially made on holi. The outer layer of these sweets is crispy and flaky in texture.

The authentic gujiya has stuffing of sweet mawa or khoya. Hence, it is called mawa gujiya as well. However, today there are many versions of the gujiya available with different fillings such as, dry fruit gujiya, coconut gujiya, chocolate gujiya and many more and even healthier ones like baked gujiya. Nevertheless, nothing can beat the timeless classic.

Here, I have shared the recipe of gujiya in which I have used mawa, suji, coconuts and dry fruits as my stuffing. For making perfect gujiya, some care is to take while making it. Firstly, moyen or moyan should be perfect. (Addition of ghee or oil in the flour is known as moyen or moyan. It makes the outer layer crispy and flaky.) If you add less amount of ghee or oil than required, the crust will be hard and not flaky. If you add more amount of oil and ghee than required, the crust may break while frying. Perfect moyen is, when you can make laddu out of maida and ghee mixture. You always check it before making the dough. Secondly, do not over stuff.Thirdly, seal tightly. Lastly, oil should be at right temperature.

Ingredients for gujiya:

1. Maida or refined flour – 2 cups

2. Ghee – ¼ th cup

3. Milk and water mixture as required

4. Oil or ghee for frying

For stuffing:

1. Mawa or khoya – 1 cup

2. Suji – 4 tbsp

3. Desiccated coconut – ½ cup

4. Powder sugar – 1/3 cup

5. Chopped cashew – 2 tbsp

6. Chopped almond – 2 tbsp

7. Raisins- 2 tbsp

8. Ghee – 2 tbsp

Preparations for making gujiya:

Step-1:

for making dough:

1. Add hot ghee in maida or refined flour and rub the maida with ghee until it mix properly. Make Sure that you can make small ball by taking a small portion from that maida mixture.