Hello everybody, it’s Jim, welcome to our recipe site. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, karjikai/karanji. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Karjikai/Karanji is one of the most popular of recent trending foods on earth. It’s easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. It is enjoyed by millions daily. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Karjikai/Karanji is something that I have loved my entire life.
how to make gujiya sweet recipe kajjikayalu recipe with step by step photo and video recipe. an oval shaped sweet dumpling prepared especially during festival seasons. it is known as karjikai in kannada, karanji in maharashtra, karachika in tamil nadu, kajjikayalu in andhra pradesh and gujiya in gujarat. while, it may have different names, but the preparation and taste. Gujiya is also known as Karanji or Karjikai in different regions of India.
To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have karjikai/karanji using 12 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Karjikai/Karanji:
- Prepare 1 cup Maida/All purpose flour
- Take 1/2 cup fine sooji
- Get 1 teaspoon sugar
- Take Pinch salt
- Make ready 2 teaspoon ghee
- Make ready Oil for deep frying
- Prepare For filling
- Make ready 1 cup Roasted channa dal
- Prepare 3/4 cup jaggery/sugar
- Get 1-2 cardamom seeds
- Get 1/2 cup dry coconut powder
- Make ready Chopped almonds and cashews (optional)
Karijikai/Karanji is a deep fried pastry filled with sweet filling. If you are wondering as what Gujiya is, well, it is similar to Karanji and referred as Gujiya in northern parts of India while it is called karanji in the southern part of India. Karjikai is deep fried crescent shaped pastry sheets prepared with all-purpose flour/wheat flour and filled with sweet stuffing prepared using. Karjikai recipe explained with step by step pictures and a video.
Instructions to make Karjikai/Karanji:
- Mix Maida, sooji, sugar n pinch of salt in a mixing bowl add some ghee and mix everything together with water to make a soft dough knead it for 3 minutes(just like chapati dough but bit softer than that) cover it with wet cloth and place it aside for 1 hour
- Take all the filling ingredients (except nuts) in a blender and grind it to fine/coarse powder
- Take a karjikai mould (available in market)
- Take the dough knead it for 2 minutes then take a small portions of it and roll it like a poori shape then place it on the mould apply very little amount of water to the edges with the help of finger tip and then add the filling powder in the middle then close the mould properly gently press all the edges
- Keep the oil in deep frying pan once the oil is hot enough then place the prepared karanji on oil let oil be on medium flame fry to golden brown
- Store karanji in a airtight box
Karjikai or karigadubu is prepared using maida, sugar and coconut. Karjikai is popular by different names like karchikai, karanji, gujiya and kajjikayalu. Karjikai is a very easy and tasty kadubu recipe prepared during ganesha festival. Karanji recipe video - Karanji, Kajjikayalu, Karjikai, Nevri are the other names to these sweet stuffed deep fried snacks. These are made during festivals most commonly during Diwali and Sankranti or pongal.
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