Luscious temptations: Dates And Almond Gujias
- Ready In:
- 1hr 40mins
- Ingredients:
- 11
- Yields:
-
40 Gujias
ingredients
- 500 g all-purpose flour (maida)
- 1⁄2 kg dried powdered milk (khoya)
- 6 tablespoons oil or 6 tablespoons ghee
- oil or ghee, to fry
- 200 ml water
- 200 g dates
- 200 g almonds, cut into thin strips
- 2 cups sugar
- 2 cups water
- 3 -5 saffron strands
- yellow food coloring, as required
directions
- Apply a little ghee or oil on your palms and then mix ghee or oil (Use ghee for authenticity) with flour until it looks like breadcrumbs.
- Add water, slowly, to make a soft dough, and cover it with a damp cloth.
- Keep aside.
- Fry the dried milk powder till light brown.
- Add almonds and dates.
- Mix well and fry for another 2 minutes.
- Allow it to cool.
- Pour water in a pot and add the sugar to it.
- Stir well and then boil the sugar-water syrup until it is of one-thread consistency.
- Add a few drops of yellow food colour and saffron.
- Mix well.
- Keep aside.
- Now roll the kneaded dough into small rotis (Indian flatbreads), about the size of your palm.
- Fill half of this with the dried milk powder mixture and seal it tightly with the other half, twisting the edges inwards.
- Take care to see that the filling does not ooze.
- Heat ghee or oil in a wok.
- Once it is hot, slowly put in the gujias and deep-fry till golden brown on either side.
- Allow the excess oil to drain out on clean paper kitchen napkins.
- Drop them carefully into the hot sugar-water syrup, mix well until the gujias are well coated with the syrup on either side.
- Carefully remove them, one at a time, and place neatly on a serving plate.
- What are you waiting for?
- Go ahead, and have one!
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