For outer cover All purpose flour | Maida 1 cup + 1 tblsp Ghee 2 tblsp Sooji |Rava 1 tblsp Salt 2 pinches Food colour few drops (red + green + green) For the filling Dry coconut 1/2 cup Badam | almonds 10 Pistachio 10 Sugar 2 tblsp Cardamom 2 Oil for deep frying
In a wide bowl add the 1 cup of flour sooji and add hot ghee and salt to this. Mix it well and when you hold the flour it should and when u leave it should break. Keep it aside for 5 minutes.
Put the dry coconut, cardamom, pistachio, badam and sugar in a mixer and pulse them into a coarse powder. This will yield little more than 1/2 cup
Divide the dough into 3 portions and few drops of food colour in each bowl. I added green, red and blue colour.
Add little water to this and make it into a stiff dough. Cover it always, else it will become dry. Place one portion of the dough in a rolling board.
Roll the dough into a thin round chapathi. I cut it using a round lid to get even size.
Repeat the same for the rest of the dough.
Place one portion of the rolled dough in the board. Make a thick paste of 1 tblsp of maida flour and slightly spread it on the rolled dough. Place one more rolled portion on this.
Do it for all the three portions of the rolled dough.
Roll this into a tight roll.
Cut this into a small portions.
Take one portion of the dough and roll this into a thin circle. If needed you can make a perfect circle with a lid.
Cover the gujiya and seal it perfectly. Use a fork or a somasi cutter or a pizza cutter. I used the fork to make the designs. If you are patient enough you can make swirls too.
Make this for the remaining dough. Heat oil for deep frying. Once the oil is hot keep it to a medium low flame adn carefully place the gujiyas into the oil.
Fry on both sides and drain them in a kitchen towel.
Gujiyas are ready to eat now.
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