Gujiya - How to Make Gujiya
Gujiya are crescent shaped filled pastry that are deep fried. The traditional gujiya recipe has a filling of sweeetned khoya or mawa (milk solids), cardamom and some nuts.
These delish fried pastries resembles the Mexican empanadas. In fact gujia are very much popular in North India, especially during the Holi festival.
You will get to see many variations of gujiya in the sweet shops during Holi. Gujia is made on both Holi and Diwali festivals.
My gujiya recipe is the traditional North Indian recipe and is made with the stuffing of khoya (mawa), sugar and nuts.
Generally, in a gujia, the outer pastry is made of all-purpose flour. But you can break away from the norm and make the pastry dough with whole wheat flour.
In this recipe, I have included half-half of both all-purpose flour and whole wheat flour.
I baked some gujiya and fried the rest and have illustrated both the baking and fried methods in the step by step guide.
Texture and taste wise the fried gujiya are definitely much better. However for health reasons and to cut down on the fat you can easily bake them when making this gujiya recipe.