Gujia is a Diwali specialty which is relished and enjoyed all over the country. It is made on Diwali and on other festivals as well. How about you make it yourself at home this Diwali? Here’s the Gujia recipe that I tried this week at my friend Kamakshi’s place. Her mother-in-law Kamala Durgapal was the main chef.

Ingredients-:

• 1 kg - Maida (flour)
• 1 can Ricotta Cheese – ( substitute for Khoya )
• 3 tbsp - Kismis (raisins)
• 4 tbsp dry coconut
• 2tsps cardamom powder
  
• 6 tbsp - Cooking Oil
• 200 ml - milk
• 500 gm - Sugar

Method-:

• Mix 6 tbsp of oil with maida well, using fingers.
• Knead it lightly, adding milk as required, into soft dough.
• Set aside and cover with a damp cloth.
• Fry Ricotta Cheese in a deep-frying pan to a light brown color. Buy Ricotta cheese from the food market and pan fry it stirring continuously on medium heat till it looses all the water content and becomes dry, dark yellowish in color.
• Add sugar, coconut, raisins and cardamom into the fried ricotta and mix well. .
• Let it cool.
• Roll out the kneaded dough into a thin small chapatti. Cut in half.
• Fill half the chapati with the khoya/cheese mixture and seal the edges with maida paste.
• Fold the chapati and twist the edges inwards.
• Deep-fry these gujias to a deep light brown color on a slow fire.
• Take them out using the sieve type ladle to drain the oil completely.
• Store for use in an airtight glass jar.
• Makes about 40 gujias.

Additional Recipe

A variation is to make sugar syrup of 4 cups sugar and 2 cups water and boil to a two thread consistency. Drop the fried gujjias for a minute and drain.we found these tasted really good.

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