Luscious Temptations: Dates And Almond Gujias

Total Time: 1 hr 40 mins Preparation Time: 40 mins Cook Time: 1 hr

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

Recipe

• 1 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.
• 2 add water, slowly, to make a soft dough, and cover it with a damp cloth.
• 3 keep aside.
• 4 fry the dried milk powder till light brown.
• 5 add almonds and dates.
• 6 mix well and fry for another 2 minutes.
• 7 allow it to cool.
• 8 pour water in a pot and add the sugar to it.
• 9 stir well and then boil the sugar-water syrup until it is of one-thread consistency.
• 10 add a few drops of yellow food colour and saffron.
• 11 mix well.
• 12 keep aside.
• 13 now roll the kneaded dough into small rotis (indian flatbreads), about the size of your palm.
• 14 fill half of this with the dried milk powder mixture and seal it tightly with the other half, twisting the edges inwards.
• 15 take care to see that the filling does not ooze.
• 16 heat ghee or oil in a wok.
• 17 once it is hot, slowly put in the gujias and deep-fry till golden brown on either side.
• 18 allow the excess oil to drain out on clean paper kitchen napkins.
• 19 drop them carefully into the hot sugar-water syrup, mix well until the gujias are well coated with the syrup on either side.
• 20 carefully remove them, one at a time, and place neatly on a serving plate.
• 21 what are you waiting for?
• 22 go ahead, and have one!