Holi 2026: How to make desi style Gujiya at home

The colourful festival of Holi is here. This festival is incomplete without the delectable spread of Mawa Gujiyas or desi-style Gujiya. It is a classic Holi sweet popularly made with refined flour and is stuffed with a mixture of mawa, sooji, roasted nuts, and powdered sugar. Take a look at the simplest gujiya recipe one can try at home.

1 cup mawa, 2 tbsp ghee, 3/4 cup sooji, 1/2 cup almonds, 1/2 cup cashews, 1 cup powdered sugar, 1/2 tbsp cardamom powder, 1 tbsp roasted chironji and ghee or oil for frying, 2 cups all purpose flour, 3 tbsp ghee, 1/2 tsp salt, 1 tbsp rose water, 1/2 cup milk, and water as required

Chop and dry roast the nuts in a pan and then let them cool down.

Also, roast the sooji in ghee until it turns golden in colour.

In a pan, heat the mawa and crumble well. Switch off the flame and let it cool down a bit.

To this, add sugar, nuts, and cardamom powder. Combine well.

Knead a soft dough using flour, ghee, salt, rose water, and milk. Add water if required. Cover the dough with a wet cloth.

Divide the dough into small balls, roll out mini pooris.

Place each poori in gujiya mould and fill it with 1.5 tbsp of the stuffing, and apply flour slurry on the edges and press the mould to get the perfect shape.

Heat ghee or oil in a kadhai and deep fry the gujiyas on a low-medium flame, until they turn crisp and golden in colour. Enjoy.

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