Three coloured Gujiya
Three coloured Gujiya

Hello everybody, it is Jim, welcome to our recipe page. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, three coloured gujiya. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Baking three coloured Gujiya's instructions at the end. Rainbow gujiya is a multicolored and multilayered variation of the traditional Indian sweet 'Gujiya'. It's multilayered look gives it another name 'Khaja ki Gujiya' that originates from another sweet called 'khaja', that's multilayered too. Khaja ki gujiya can be made with one color too but more colors make it more attractive.

Three coloured Gujiya is one of the most well liked of current trending foods on earth. It is easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. It is enjoyed by millions every day. Three coloured Gujiya is something which I’ve loved my entire life. They are fine and they look fantastic.

To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook three coloured gujiya using 16 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Three coloured Gujiya:
  1. Make ready 3 cup Refined flour
  2. Take 1/2 cup Ghee
  3. Make ready Curd or Milk – 1 ½ tsp each (4 ½ tsp)
  4. Take For three Colour:
  5. Make ready Beetroot juice: 1 tsbp
  6. Take 2 Tsp Peas paste:
  7. Get 2 tsp Carrot paste:
  8. Make ready (you should boil when separately, drain and make a smooth paste)
  9. Prepare For stuffing
  10. Get Semolina - 3/4 cup (150 grams)
  11. Take 3/4 cup Powdered sugar -
  12. Prepare Dry fruits - 1 cup (cashews, walnuts, almonds, raisins, hazelnut, pecans, sliced dry apricots, pistachio)
  13. Make ready 3 tsp Desiccated coconut
  14. Take 7-8 Green cardamom
  15. Get Ghee - for frying gujiyas and roasting semolina
  16. Make ready You can also Bake them. Baking three coloured Gujiya’s instructions at the end

Its a traditional Maharashtrian and Gujarati sweet dish made in the festivals of Holi and Diwali. Diwali, the festival of colours is around the corner. I made a colourful twist in my rainbow Gujiya by adding tutti frutti in the filling and coloured layers on the outer part of the Gujiya. Gujiya or Karanji or Chandrakala, a sweet dumpling is very popular dessert from North, Middle & West Indian which is prepared in most households of these regions.

Instructions to make Three coloured Gujiya:
  1. Take flour 1 cup flour in three separate vessels add: beetroot, peas paste, carrot paste separately ghee(1 tbsp each) and curd (1 ½ tsp each) in to it. Mix all ingredients really well.
  2. Now add water only if required and knead stiff and tight dough, same as required for making pooris. Cover the dough and keep it aside for one hour.
  3. For making stuffing: - - Finely chop all dry fruits. Peel cardamom and make powder. Take 2 tbsp ghee in a wok and heat it sufficiently. Add semolina in ghee and stir it constantly. Roast until semolina turns golden brown in color. After roasting semolina, add chopped dry fruits into it. Roast for 1 to 2 minutes and mix all ingredients. Turn off the flame and keep stirring the semolina. Take out semolina in a bowl and allow it to cool.
  4. Knead the dough again until smooth. Make 25 small dough balls and cover them. - - Important step: When semolina cools, add powdered sugar, coconut and cardamom powder into it. Mixture for stuffing gujiyas is ready.
  5. Take one dough ball roll, do same with other two. Now make plait. Cut then in equal parts and roll it out in a poori with 3 to 4 inch diameter. Place the rolled poori in a plate. Roll out at least 10 pooris. Now stuff these pooris for making gujiyas. For this, take one poori, place it over the mold and stuff it with 1 or 1.5 tsp stuffing. Spread some water on the corners. Close the mold, press gently and remove the extra dough from it. Open the mold, take out gujiya and place it over a plate.
  6. Likewise, prepare all gujiyas and place them in a plate. Cover them so that they don't dry.
  7. Fry the Gujiyas: - - Take ghee in a wok and heat i sufficiently. Place gujiyas in medium hot ghee and fry on low-medium flame until they turn golden brown in color from both sides. Take out the fried guijyas in a plate with absorbent paper. Likewise fry all gujiyas. - - Mouth drooling Gujiyas are ready. Serve these tantalizing and piping hot gujiyas with Mango Rabri. Or just serve three coloured gujiya on its own.
  8. Baking instructions: - - Preheat the oven to 200 degrees and put the ghee glazed Gujiya tray on the wired stand. Set the oven at 200 degrees for 10 minutes. Take the gujiyas out after 10 minutes and check them. They should be brown from the top. Then turn at cook for another 4-5 minutes. It should be golden from both sides.
  9. Another option to get glaze on the gujiya: you can coat the gujiya with condensed milk to glaze it. It’ll look shiny and tempting. Dilute the condensed milk a little using regular milk. Coat the gujiyas with this sweetened milk using a brush. Turn it over and coat it from the other side too, now bake it for another 5-6 minutes, making sure that you don’t overcook them. It takes 15-18 minutes to bake gujiya. Serve the gujiyas hot and piping and enjoy the taste.
  10. When they cool down, you can put them in an air-tight container and store them for up to a week.

I made a colourful twist in my rainbow Gujiya by adding tutti frutti in the filling and coloured layers on the outer part of the Gujiya. Gujiya or Karanji or Chandrakala, a sweet dumpling is very popular dessert from North, Middle & West Indian which is prepared in most households of these regions. This half-moon shaped, Empanadas look-a-like dessert is a deep fried pastry, made of flour and ghee; filled with a stuffing of mawa (khoya) and dry fruits. The authentic gujiya has a stuffing of sweet mawa or khoya. Hence it is known as Mawa gujiya as well. 🧾Ingredients.

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