Hey everyone, I hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, chandrkala gujiya. One of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Chandrkala Gujiya is one of the most popular of recent trending foods on earth. It is enjoyed by millions daily. It is easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. Chandrkala Gujiya is something which I’ve loved my entire life. They’re nice and they look wonderful.

Chandrakala and suryakala,. "For this recipe, my father was inspired by the gujiya, a dry fried pastry that is commonly prepared for festivals like Holi in the North. Gujiya or Karanji or Chandrakala, a sweet dumpling is very popular dessert from North, Middle & West Indian which is prepared in most households of these regions. This half-moon shaped, Empanadas look-a-like dessert is a deep fried pastry, made of flour and ghee; filled with a stuffing of mawa (khoya) and dry fruits.

To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have chandrkala gujiya using 14 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Chandrkala Gujiya:

1. Get 200gm. Mawa(dried milk) (1cup)
2. Prepare 2tbsp Powdered sugar/Bhura -
3. Make ready 20-25 (cut 1 nut into 6-7 pieces)Raisins - 50 to 60 (remove
4. Get stems)Elaichi(cardamom) - 6 to 7 (peel and grind to make fine
5. Get powder)Dry Coconut - 50 grams (1/4 cup,grated)
6. Make ready To prepare dough for Chandrakala
7. Get 500gm Flour(maida) (2 1/2 cup)
8. Prepare 1cup ghee Ghee - to fry Gujhiya
9. Take 500gm Sugar for chashni
10. Get 1/4cup Ghee
11. Get 50g Suji
12. Take 200gm Cashew nuts
13. Take 2tbsp Chironji
14. Take 125 gm Ghee

Chandrakala is an important sweet meat made fir Holi just like Gujhiya. You can make this sweet meat for Holi and give it to your family and guests. It tastes awesome and you will feel like having it again and again. Chandrakala is a traditional North Indian dessert specially made for festival of Holi and Diwali.

Instructions to make Chandrkala Gujiya:

1. Fry Mawa in a heavy based utensil till it turns brown(if Mawa is fried properly, Chadrakala last for much long). Take out fried Mawa in a utensil and let it cool.
2. Put Ghee in a frying pan(kadhai), put Suji in Ghee and fry till it turns pink.
3. Put fried Mawa in fried Suji along with powdered sugar/Bhura, cashew nuts, raisins, Elaichi coconut and Chironji. Mix all the ingredients properly. Stuffing required to fill inside Chandrakala is ready..
4. Prepare dough for Chandrakala - - Filter the flour and keep in a utensil. Melt Ghee, put it in the flour then mix properly with your hand. Knead a hard dough(similar to puri) using warm water, cover the dough with a wet cloth and keep aside for 30 minutes. Dough is ready to make Chandrakala.
5. After half an hour press the dough to make it soft, break small pieces of the dough(around 30-40 pieces). If you make 40-50 pieces then 20-25 Chandrakalas can be made out of those. Take one dough piece, roll it like a Puri with a diameter of 2-3 inches. This Puri should be a bit thick but it should be kept thin while preparing other Gujhiyas. Roll 10 Puris of this same size and keep on a plate.
6. Pick 1 Puri from the plate, keep it on your palm(Puris lower surface should be faced upwards). Now place 2 tsp Kasar on the Puri,apply water on the edges then place another Puri on top. Press the edges and close the stuffing in between the 2 Puris. Twist the edges, you need to practice how to  twist, Place this Chandrakalas on a plate or cloth. Similarly prepare 5 Chandrakalas with the 10 Puris, cover them with a cloth to prevent them from drying as it takes time to prepare all of them
7. You can use a washed sheet for this. Now roll 10 more Puris and make 5 Chandrakalas with them then cover them all. - - All your Chandrakalas are made, they are ready to be fried. You can take a 15 minute break if you want.
8. Fry Chandrakala - - Heat oil in a heavy based frying pan(kadhai), put 4 or as many Chandrakalas that can be fried in the Ghee(in the pan). Fry them till they turn brown on a low flame, take out the fried Chandrakalas. All of our Chandrakalas have been fried, we only have to coat them with Chashni.
9. Allow Chandrakalas to cool, till then let us prepare the Chashni. - Prepare Chashni - Put 500 grams sugar in any utensil then add 250 grams of water to it. Stir the sugar a bit so that it mix with water. Cook Chashni till it comes to boil, then cook for 5-6 minutes.Pour one drop of Chashni in a bowl and after it cools off place it on your finger. Now try to stick the drop between your thumb and index finger. While separating the fingers 2 thread looking substances should come out of Chashni.
10. Chashni is ready.
11. Coat Chandrakala with Chashni - - 1. Dip Chadrakala in the Chashni, take it out with a ladle and keep in another plate. Similalr dip another Chandrakala, dip all Chandrakalas in Chashni and take them out. Keep Chandrakalas separated from each other, leave them in open air for 1 hour then turn them over and leave for another 1 hour. Your Chandrakala is ready, you can see they llok so pretty.
12. Eat these fresh Chandrakal. Fill the remaining Chandrakalas in an air-tight container, take them out whenever you want to eat. These Chandrakalas stay fresh up to 15 or more days.

Chandrakalas are similar to Gujiya in taste but are different in shape: these are round. These are khoya/ Mawa (thickened milk), dry fruits and sugar filled pastries; flavored with cardamoms and deep fried in pure ghee. In the way Chashni is coated on Mava Karanji and Gujhiya. Similary a coating of Chashni is formed on Chandrakala Gujhiya. The ingredients are quite similar but the preparation process is a bit different.

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