Khajoor Ghugra Recipe
Khajoor Ghugra Recipe
Cuisine: GujaratiKhajoor Ghugra Recipe: Khajoor Ghugra, also known as Date Turnovers, are sweet pastries filled with a mixture of dates, nuts, and flavored with cardamom. They are a popular dessert in Gujarat.
Ingredients
1/4 cup milk
1/2 cup ghee
2 tsp poppy seeds ground
6 green cardamoms powdered
200 gm seeded and coarsely grounded dates
1 cup refined flour
1/4 cup coconut desiccated
ghee for frying
salt to taste
1/2 cup sugar
Directions
- Rub 1/2 cup ghee into the flour.
- Mix in a pinch of salt and milk and prepare dough.
- Smoothen and knead the dough well for 15 minutes.
- Make small balls and keep covered.
- Prepare a smooth mixture of poppy seeds,
- Desiccated coconut, ground dates, green cardamom powder and sugar.
- Make small balls of even size.
- Roll out maida balls into small rounds.
- Put the date stuffing on one side,
- Fold to look like semi circle and seal the edges.
- Cut edges with fluted cutter.
- Make all the ghugras similarly.
- Heat up ghee in a pot and deep fry in batches till golden brown.
- Drain completely.
- Serve as sweet snack.
