Karchikayi (Gujiya) recipe for Holi

Karchikayi (Gujiya)

By Sify Bawarchi

Prep Time: 1 hr

Total Time: 2 hr

Makes: 6

Ingredients

For the dough:

• 2 cups -all purpose flour (maida)
• 2 tbsp- sooji (sanna rava)
• 4 tbsp -ghee
• water for mixing
• To apply on the dough
• A little -milk
• A small ball - cotton
• oil for deep fry

For the filling:

• 1.5 cup -jaggery
• 1 cup -channa dalia powder (putani) coarsely grinded.
• 1 cup -dry coconut powder (vana kobbri)
• cashew nuts, dry grapes and cardamom powder according to taste.
• elaichi powder

Steps

1. Prepare a slightly harder dough with the above ingredients. Keep it aside for 1 hour.
2. Grind channa dalia powder, jaggery and coconut powder in a grinder for 5 to 6 minutes, in between stop the grinder and mix with spoon.
3. Add cashwenuts, grapes and elaichi powder.
4. Make small balls of dough and roll them into egg shaped (ellipse) leaves. Put 1 tbsp spoon of mixture in a line along the centre.
5. Apply milk on the one edge of the leaves with cotton. Stick both the edges.
6. Heat the oil in a pan (balige) and deep fry the karchikayi.
7. Cool it for an hour and fill in boxes with closed lid.

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