Bengali Misti Goja
Bengali Misti Goja is a popular sweet from Bengal. Goja is prepared with flour and ghee, deep fried and soaked in sugar syrup.
Yield: 10 nos
Materials
For Goja
- 1 cup Maida or All Purpose Flour
- ¼ teaspoon Baking Soda
- ¼ cup Ghee or Clarified Butter
- 3 cups Vegetable Oil, for deep frying
- Water as required
For Sugar Syrup
- 1 cup Sugar
- 1 cup Water
Instructions
Making of Sugar Syrup
- Take one cup sugar and one cup water in a pan and boil it until dissolves.
- The sugar syrup should not be toothin or thick so boil it for few minutes. Once done, switch off the gas andkeep it aside.
Making of Goja
- Take 1 cup of flour in a bowl andadd pinch of baking soda and mix well.
- Next add ghee into the mixture and mix it well with your palm until the mixture appears crumb like texture.
- Now add water using a teaspoon little by little as the dough has to be hard in texture and it will have cracks unlike the smooth dough of Poori.
- Next take the dough on a flat kitchen platform and spread it in circle shape by tapping with your fingers.
- Now take a knife and cut the circleinto half circle and further make halves of the half circles.
- At present, you have four pieces of dough and stack them on each other so again it formed dough ball.
- Now repeat step 4 to 6 for 4 to 5 times. This will create the layers inside goja.
- After repeating those steps now spread the dough ball in a square shape with a 1/2 or quarter inch thickness and cut it into square or rectangular pieces.
- Heat oil in a wok and add few rectangular pieces in the oil and slowly fry them till they are golden from all sides.
- Now take them out from the oil and allow to cool for sometime before adding them to the sugar syrup.
- Allow to soak them in sugar syrup for15 to 20 minutes and take them out and serve.