Ghughra Recipe
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Deep fried or baked, Ghughra is a sweet snack stuffed with coconut and other enhancing elements and wrapped in a pastry shell. A popular Gujarati road side snack, this is a must try and is worth every penny.
Ghughra Recipe |
Preparation Time |
15 Minutes |
Cooking Time |
95 Minutes |
Difficulty |
Average |
Recipe Type |
Veg. |
Serves |
4 |
Ingredients:
- For Dough
- 4 cups Plain Flour (maida)
- ½ tsp Asafoetida (optional)
- 4 tbsp Melted Ghee
- Salt (as per taste)
- Oil (for deep frying)
For Stuffing
- 3 tsp Sugar
- 2 tsp Sesame Seeds (til)
- 1 tsp Asafoetida (hing)
- 3 tsp Ginger-chilli Paste
- 4 tsp Chopped Coriander
- 1 tsp Cumin Seeds (jeera)
- 4 cups Green Peas
- 8 tbsp Grated Coconut
- 2 Lemon Juice
- 4 tbsp Oil
- Salt (as per taste)
How to make Ghughra:
- Take the flour and sieve it to remove unwanted particles from it. Add salt and asafoetida.
- Mix melted ghee and water in it and make firm dough. Now, make 20- 30 small balls out of it and keep it aside.
- Prepare stuffing by grinding the peas.
- Now, heat the oil in a saucepan and put asafetida & cumin seeds in it. Let the seeds crackle.
- Add mashed peas and stir, mixing in a few drops of water.
- Now, cover the pan with a lid and let the mixture cook for some time.
- When it is cooked, uncover it and let it dry for some time.
- Put the mixture on a plate and let it cool. Add sugar, sesame seeds, lemon juice, salt, ginger-chilli paste, coriander and grated coconut to it and mix well.
- Roll out the balls that you had prepared out of the dough into a 3 inch circle and put one spoon of the stuffing mixture in the centre of each circle.
- Tenderly fold the circle into semicircle and seal the edges using a drop of water.
- Decorate the edges of the semicircle using thumb and forefinger.
- Heat oil in pan and deep fry the stuffed balls in it, until they become brown in color.
- Serve hot with chutney.