Recipe for Sugar-free Sweets

On this holi, enjoy sugar-free Gujjias and Puran Poli. Sugar-free sweets are healthy sweets and you can prepare them at home.

Gujjias

Ingredients you need:

• 1 cup Wheat flour
• 3 tbsp Ghee
• 1 pinch Salt
• 1/2 litre Oil (for frying)

For stuffing:

• 1 cup Grated coconut ( fresh or dried)
• Dates puree ( instead of sugar)
• 1 1/2 cups Milk
• chopped dried fruits
• 1/2 tsp Cardamom powder
• 1 tbsp Poppy seeds

How to prepare Gujiya:

• Combine the salt, flour and ghee, add water and knead the mixture to prepare dough. Cover it with wet cloth and set aside for a while.
• Soak the dates one night before and y blend them the next day. Your dates puree is prepared to be used instead of sugar. Test its sweetness before mixing it with the dough.
• For stuffing- cook coconut, date puree milk, chopped dried fruits, cardamom powder and poppy seeds until this mixture becomes dry.
• Divide the dough into 20-25 small parts and make them into flat round pancakes. Stuff them with a spoon of prepared mixture and fold the pancake  from the centre.
• You can create the fluted crescent border with a cutter.  Remove the excess dough. Seal the border with little milk or oil.  Keep the raw gujjia aside.
• In a wok (karahi), heat the oil for 2-3 minutes; make at least 3-4 raw gujjias at a time and fry them until they turn golden brown.
• Remove the gujjias in a paper bowl and let them cool. After 20 mins, you can savour the sugar-free gujjias. Store them in an airtight container.

Puran Poli

Ingredients you need:

• 1 cup Maida (all purpose flour)
• 1 pinch Turmeric Powder
• 1 pinch Salt
• 2 tsp Ghee
• Water to make dough
• 6 tbsp Oil
• Oil / Ghee for frying

 For stuffing:

• 1 1/2 cup Jaggery (gud)
• 1 1/4 cup Bengal Gram Dal
• 1/4 tsp Cardamom Powder

How to prepare Puran Poli:

• Mix ghee, salt and turmeric powder with maida, add water and knead to make smooth dough.
• Cover with a wet cloth for one hour and knead again.
• Pour 6 tablespoons of oil on the dough and knead until it gets completely absorbed. Keep it aside for 4 hours.
• Boil dal in one whistle and drain the water.
• Grind it with  jaggery and cardamom powder to make a paste. Do not add water.
• Prepare small balls of stuffing. Divide the dough into small balls and flatten them.
• Put the stuffing ball in the dough ball and seal it with other side of the ball.
• Make a proper round of the stuffed dough and prepare a thick puri with it.
• Fry it on a tawa pouring ghee on both sides. Let it cook from both sides.  Your Puran Poli is ready to be served.

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