Luscious temptations: Dates And Almond Gujias

• 500 g all-purpose flour (maida)
• 12 kg dried powdered milk (khoya)
• 6 tablespoons oil or 6 tablespoons ghee
• oil or ghee, to fry
• 200 ml water
• 200 g dates
• 200 g almonds, cut into thin strips
• 2 cups sugar
• 2 cups water
• 3 -5 saffron strands
• yellow food coloring, as required

1. Apply a little ghee or oil on your palms and then mix ghee or oil (Use ghee for authenticity) with flour until it looks like breadcrumbs.
2. Add water, slowly, to make a soft dough, and cover it with a damp cloth.
3. Keep aside.
4. Fry the dried milk powder till light brown.
5. Add almonds and dates.
6. Mix well and fry for another 2 minutes.
7. Allow it to cool.
8. Pour water in a pot and add the sugar to it.
9. Stir well and then boil the sugar-water syrup until it is of one-thread consistency.
10. Add a few drops of yellow food colour and saffron.
11. Mix well.
12. Keep aside.
13. Now roll the kneaded dough into small rotis (Indian flatbreads), about the size of your palm.
14. Fill half of this with the dried milk powder mixture and seal it tightly with the other half, twisting the edges inwards.
15. Take care to see that the filling does not ooze.
16. Heat ghee or oil in a wok.
17. Once it is hot, slowly put in the gujias and deep-fry till golden brown on either side.
18. Allow the excess oil to drain out on clean paper kitchen napkins.
19. Drop them carefully into the hot sugar-water syrup, mix well until the gujias are well coated with the syrup on either side.
20. Carefully remove them, one at a time, and place neatly on a serving plate.
21. What are you waiting for?
22. Go ahead, and have one!

powdered milk, oil, oil, water, dates, almonds, sugar, water, saffron strands, yellow food coloring

Taken from www.food.com/recipe/luscious-temptations-dates-and-almond-gujias-76378 (may not work)