Different types of mawa gujiyas. Mostly made during the holi festival. Holi is known to be the festival of colours and joy. Gujiya, which is a popular traditional sweet filled with sweet fillings and lots of dry fruits.
Gujiya is a sweet fried dumpling made from all purpose flour and filled with khoya/mawa, which is milk solids and nuts.
It is known by different names People make gujiya in several ways.
Some shape it by hand, some soak gujiya in a sugar syrup once fried, so it depends on the type of gujiya that is.
You can have Different types of mawa gujiyas using 16 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you achieve that.
Ingredients of Different types of mawa gujiyas
- Prepare of Filling:.
- You need of rava (coarsly ground).
- It's of mawa Or khova.
- You need of chopped cashew and almonds.
- It's of powdered sugar.
- You need of Outer layer:.
- Prepare of maida.
- Prepare of oil.
- You need of salt.
- You need of Water (needed to prepare the tight dough).
- It's of Assembling:.
- Prepare of orange food colour.
- It's of purple food colour (I have used natural purple colour).
- Prepare of purple cabbage boiled for 1 minute and then blended, Strain the purple liquid and keep aside.
- You need of Deep frying-.
- It's of Oil.
Gujiya is a popular north indian sweet of a crisp, flaky pastry filled with a sweet khoya and dry fruits stuffing. I baked some gujiya and fried the rest and have illustrated both the baking and fried methods in the step by step pics. texture and taste wise the fried gujiya are definitely much better. There are different kinds of gujiyas. We also follow different methods to prepare them.
Different types of mawa gujiyas step by step
- Heat the pan, add 1/2 tsp ghee add rava and saute until raw smell is gone. Add chopped nuts and saute for few seconds. Now add the grated mawa and saute until everything is dried. Switch off the flame, keep aside for cooling down. Once cooled down, add the powdered sugar and mix well. Keep aside..
- In a bowl add the maida, salt and oil and using hands bind it well. Now add water to prepare a tight dough. Divide the dough in 4 equal sizes..
- For Assembling:.
- Purple gujiya: take one portion of the dough, add purple food colour mix well. Now divide it into two balls. Take one ball using roller pin roll it to a poori shape, fill the middle portion with mawa filling and apply water or ghee to the edges and fold it to half, secure the edges and give gujiya style fold at the edge. Prepare another purple gujiya the same way..
- Traditional gujiya: take another portion from the 4 dough balls. Divide into three balls. Take one ball, using roll pin prepare a poori, fill with mawa filling and cover to half. Now seal the edges and fold the edges like gujiya style..
- Traditional gujiya with a twist (flower) : from the remaining two balls (divided before preparing traditional gujiya) take one ball. Follow the same process to prepare the traditional gujiya, add take a very small portion from dough and using knife cut and give shape of a small flower, add small sprinklers at the centre of the flower. Using water or ghee attach the flower to the traditional gujiya, prepare another one same way.
- Mat or basket shaped gujiya:Now we have two dough balls from the initial dough. Mix both of them and divide in three balls. Take one ball and add orange colour. Now divide it into two balls, roll into poori shape, cut vertically in thin slices, keep the aside, similarly from another orange ball prepare the thin slices and keep aside..
- Now from another two dough balls, take one and prepare the white or maida coloured thin slices like orange slices. Keep aside.
- Now finally you have only one dough ball left, divide in into two balls. Take one ball, using roll pin prepare a poori shape, now bind the orange slices and white slices like a basket or mat. Turn the upside down of the poori, fill the mawa filling, fold it into half, seal the edges and fold to give gujiya shape. Repeat for the another dough ball..
- Final step: deep fry all the gujiyas..
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