Tag: Goja

Chena Goja बिहार की प्रसिद्ध छेना मिठाई- Khurma Sweets- Festival Recipe–Paneer / Chena Sweets

Ingredients –

  • Paneer/ Chena – 2 cups.
  • Sugar – 1 1/2  cups
  • All purpose flour (maida) – 1  tbsp
  • Cardamom (elachi) powder- 1/2 tsp
  • Maida/all purpose flour – 1 tbsp.

Method –

  1. Put chena on the plate and using your hand press until chena becomes completely smooth.
  2. Roll and cut into cubes shape with help of knife.
  3. Add 3 cups water, sugar and  cardamom powder into the pan/kadhai.
  4. Mix well and let it boil on high heat.
  5. Chasni is boiled, add chena cubes.
  6. Cook for 10 minutes on high heat.
  7. Keep cooking till chena turns light brown in color.
  8. Keep stirring regularly so that it is evenly coated over the chena.
  9. Add All purpose flour (maida) into the water, mix and add into the chasni.
  10. If chasni becomes thick, add little water time to time.
  11. Keep cooking till chena turns light brown in color.
  12. Once chena become brown in color turn off the heat.
  13. Now take them out in a strainer for 15-20 minutes to drain extra sugar syrup.
  14. Khurma sweets is ready.
  15. You can store in refrigerator for up to a week.

    Colorful Elo Jhelo / Champakali /Goja Sweet Recipe For Republic Day–Indian Sweet Recipe

    Hello friends, today I am sharing Republic Day Special Sweet dish. Hope you like it

    Ingredients –

    1. All – purpose flour (Maida) – 1 cup
    2. Food color (as per your choice)
    3. Ghee / Oil – 2 tsp.
    4. Sugar – 1 cup
    5. Cardamom powder – 2 pinch
    6. Vegetable oil for Frying

    Method –

    • Add ghee into the maida and mix well.
    • With help of water prepare the soft dough and knead thoroughly.
    • Divide the dough into three equal parts, add colors and mix well.
    • Take small portion from the dough and roll them into small balls.
    • Now roll each one of them using a rolling pin of approximately 3-3 ½ inches in diameter.
    • Stack them on top of each other .
    • Leaving out around ½ cm from the outer edges, cut this into slices from the center towards the edges.
    • Hold the strips from the end, while pressing it from the ends, curl them nicely till the end.
    • Repeat the same process for rest of the dough balls and keep them aside.
    • Heat the oil in the pan on medium heat and once oil is ready, fry all the Elo jhelo.
    • When they start floating on the oil, just flip them to cook evenly. Fry until all the Elo Jhelo turns golden brown.
    • Add sugar with 1/3 cup of water in another pan to make sugar syrup. Cook it until all the sugar dissolves into the water.
    • Add cardamom powder into the pan.
    • Check with your fingertip, when you see 1 thread of the sugar syrup between your fingertips, it means sugar syrup is ready.
      Turn off the heat.
    • Dip the fried Elo Jhelo into the sugar syrup for few seconds.
    • Colorful Elo Jhelo is ready, transfer to another plate and allow it to become cold.

    Colorful Elo Jhelo / Champakali /Goja Sweet Recipe For Republic Day–Indian Sweet Recipe

    Hello friends, today I am sharing Republic Day Special Sweet dish. Hope you like it

    Ingredients –

    1. All – purpose flour (Maida) – 1 cup
    2. Food color (as per your choice)
    3. Ghee / Oil – 2 tsp.
    4. Sugar – 1 cup
    5. Cardamom powder – 2 pinch
    6. Vegetable oil for Frying

    Method –

    • Add ghee into the maida and mix well.
    • With help of water prepare the soft dough and knead thoroughly.
    • Divide the dough into three equal parts, add colors and mix well.
    • Take small portion from the dough and roll them into small balls.
    • Now roll each one of them using a rolling pin of approximately 3-3 ½ inches in diameter.
    • Stack them on top of each other .
    • Leaving out around ½ cm from the outer edges, cut this into slices from the center towards the edges.
    • Hold the strips from the end, while pressing it from the ends, curl them nicely till the end.
    • Repeat the same process for rest of the dough balls and keep them aside.
    • Heat the oil in the pan on medium heat and once oil is ready, fry all the Elo jhelo.
    • When they start floating on the oil, just flip them to cook evenly. Fry until all the Elo Jhelo turns golden brown.
    • Add sugar with 1/3 cup of water in another pan to make sugar syrup. Cook it until all the sugar dissolves into the water.
    • Add cardamom powder into the pan.
    • Check with your fingertip, when you see 1 thread of the sugar syrup between your fingertips, it means sugar syrup is ready.
      Turn off the heat.
    • Dip the fried Elo Jhelo into the sugar syrup for few seconds.
    • Colorful Elo Jhelo is ready, transfer to another plate and allow it to become cold.

    Elo Jhelo/ Champakali /Goja Sweet Recipe

    My mother used to prepare Elo Jhelo every year on Diwali or on special festive seasons. This is a very delicious recipe, I personally like Elo Jhelo and today I thought to share this recipe with you. This is also known as Champakali in Maharashtra and in some places this is called as Goja.

    Ingredients –

    1. All-purpose flour (Maida) – 1 cups
    2. Water/Milk for making dough
    3. Ghee/Oil – 2 tsp
    4. Sugar – ½ cup
    5. Oil for Frying
    6. Cardamom powder – 2 pinch

    Method –

    • Take a bowl, mix flour (maida) and oil, with help of water prepare the dough and knead thoroughly.
    • Make sure the dough should not be too hard nor too soft. Cover and keep it aside for 10-15 to let it settle down.
    • After 10-15 minutes when the dough is ready, press it gently to make it smooth.
    • Take small portion from the dough and roll them into small balls.
    • Now roll each one of them using a rolling pin of approximately 3-3 ½ inches in diameter.
    • Leaving out around ½ cm from the outer edges, cut this into slices from the center towards the edges.

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    • Hold the strips from the end, while pressing it from the ends, curl them nicely till the end.

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    • Repeat the same process for rest of the dough balls and keep them aside.

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    • To fry Elo Jhelo, heat the oil in the pan on medium flame and once oil is ready, start putting Elo Jhelo one at a time into the hot oil.
    • When they start floating on the oil, just flip them to cook evenly. Fry until all the Elo Jhelo turns golden brown.
    • Take out the ones which is ready and likewise fry rest of the Elo Jhelo.

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    • Add ½ cup sugar with 1 ½ cup of water in another pan to make sugar syrup. Cook it until all the sugar dissolves into the water and become little thick (approx. 4-5 minutes).
    • When the syrup is ready, turn off the flame, add cardamom powder into it and allow it to cool down for few minutes.
    • Dip the fried Elo Jhelo 2-3 at a time into the sugar syrup for few seconds and transfer to another plate.

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    • Elo Jhelo is ready, allow it to become cold. You can store them into air tight jar.