Gujiya recipe

Make your festivals now healthy with this Baked Gujiya recipe. I Have used the alternative of baking and Honey to replace frying and sugar syrup.

How to make Gujiya ?

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How to make?

Take 1 cup mava (khoya) in a pan.
Keep roasting it till mava gets brown.
Make sure you keep stirring mava so that it doesn’t get stick to the pan.
On the sides take a bowl and add 1 cup Maida (plain flour).
In the Maida, add 2 spoon ghee.
Keep mixing everything.
Keep checking mava.
Add little cold water.
2-2 spoon in the maida and ghee mixture.
Make dough like Paratha.
Cover the bowl of lead and leave it for resting 15-20 minutes.
On the pan, mava has been roasted well and its color has changed
take out mava in a bowl and let it cool down.
Once mava gets cool down, add 2 spoon coconut powder.
Add some elaichi powder.
Add chopped pista & almonds.
Add 1.5 tbs sugar
Mix well.
Gujiya filling is ready.
Now take the maida dough and flatten it like a chapati.
Cut out roundels using a bowl.
Take some mava gujiya filling and place it at the centre of roundels.
Apply a little water on the sides of roundels.
Close the gujiya and using fork seal the sides.
We are baking and not frying.
So take parchment paper on a baking tray.
Pre-heat oven for 10 minutes at 180 degree.
Place gujiya in it and bake at 180 degrees for 20 minutes.
Take it out – the colour won’t be too brown as we are baking and not frying.
Immediately brush honey on the top; you will get the excellent shine.
Garnish with chopped almonds and pista.
While serving in a plate; pour some more honey on the top.
So Healthy Baked Gujiya recipe – no frying, no sugar syrup… we have cut down half the calories with this version of Gujiya.