Sweet Puff (Gujiya)

1. Sweet Puff (Mawa Gujiya) I don’t remember any special occasion or festival goes without this sweet. Not only in north India but in south India also it is made and eaten with great interest.

   Ingredients:

   For Pastry
   ½ lb. (250 gm.) All purpose flour (Maida)
   2 tbls. Hot oil
   1 pinch salt
   water to kneed it
   
   For filling:
   ½ lb. (250 gm.) Mawa/khoya* or condensed milk
   ½ lb. (250 gm.) desiccated coconut
   ¼ lb. Sugar or according to your taste
   1 cup chopped nuts
   1 tsp. cardamom powder
   
   Desi ghee for frying.
   
   Mix Mawa/khoya, sugar and desiccated coconut and roast it in low heat. Mix nuts and cardamom powder in it. Keep aside.
   
   Mix water in all purpose flour, hot oil, salt and rub it for few minutes. Add enough water to make soft dough. Roll it thinly and fill one or two tsp. of filling mixture in it. Fold it to half and seal it with little water. Cut the edges with a cutter like pie cutter.
   
   Fry it in Ghee until golden brown.
   
   *Mawa is made with milk. Just by cooking milk slowly until it thickens. Or you can use sweetened condensed milk. If you are using sweetened condensed milk, you do not need sugar.