India is a place for delicious food and sweets. Gujiya is one of the best. India serves varieties of food from north to south and from east to west. Hundreds of thousands varieties of food and cuisines are available in India to taste. Perhaps no other nation has so many varieties of food in their list.

Indians are especially fond of sweets. Many varieties of sweets are prepared, served and tasted all over India. Indian marriage parties cannot be completed without sweet dishes. People in India serve and offer sweets as part and parcel of every celebration.

There are hundreds and thousands of shops selling sweets in India. Indian companies export large amount of sweets to America, Europe, Japan, Middle east and other parts of the world.

All of the Indian sweets are vegetarian. These are delicious, tasty, and healthy.

Indian sweets mainly belong to four categories.

1. Fried sweet: Gujiya, Laddu, Jalebi, Gulab Jamun  etc.

2. Dry fruit sweets: Badam (Almond) katli, Pista loz etc.

3. Milk product sweets: Mawa barfi, Peda, Mishri Mawa etc.

4. Bengali sweets: Sandesh, Rasogolla, Rasomundi, Chhenabada etc.

View: Rasogolla and Sandesh....

I would like to describe about a special north Indian variety Gujiya belongs to fried category.You may find it in shops selling sweets. You can prepare also it at home.

What is a Gujiya?

Gujiya is a variety of fried sweets. Mawa alias Khoya (dried milk) is covered with flour and fried in ghee (butter oil). It is then sugar coated.

Gujiya is a festival sweet. It is prepared in many families in north India in special occassions. It is also a special Diwali dish.

Which materials are required to prepare it?

You need Flour, Mawa / Khoya, sugar and ghee to prepare it. You can add some dry fruits, cardamom, saffron and rose water to enhance taste and fragrance.

How can you prepare Gujiya?

Take some flour and mix it with water to make dough of it. Take some dough and press it (through a belan) to make a thin round piece (as you prepare it for puri). Bake Mawa for some time and allow it to be pink. You can bake it according to your own taste. Put Mawa mixed with some sugar, rose water, saffron and dry fruits into thin flap. Then fold the thin piece of flour paste to a particular shape (Shown in the picture).

Take some ghee and put it on gas burner. When ghee is heated enough put the prepared piece into the same and fry. Then bring it out.Your gujiya is almost prepared.

Take some water separately and boil it. Add some sugar into it. It is called chasni. Pour some chasni over the fried piece. You may also add some dry sugar onto it.

Your Gujiya is now ready to serve. This is a very rich variety of sweets. It has high calorie value.

Serve, eat and enjoy this delicious and tasty north Indian sweet, a special Diwali cousin.

Caution: Gujiya is fried variety of sweets. Both Ghee and Mawa contains vegetarian fat. Hence, Gujiya contains high fat and cholestoral. Cardiac patients and patients having high blood pressure should careful while eating Gujiya. Gujiya, like all other sweets also contain sugar. Diabetics should consult their doctors before eating.