This was one sweet I found in both Bengali and Odisha cuisine. Goja / Gaja are deep fried sweets common in both cuisine. They can be made with paneer, mawa or maida and with the difference in the ingredients, the name changes. I have already posted chenna gaja recipe in this BM and now it is time for Khir Goja. This is made with a combination of maida and mawa. I used my home made mawa and the gojas turned out wonderful.
With all those mawa in it, it is such a rich sweet. It is also deep fried and then dipped in sugar syrup. I am really happy to have found this sweet as it turned out amazing. The sweet is crisp on the outside, juicy and soft inside. To make the gojas, the dough is shaped by layering and it creates a nice airy inside after frying. My hubby got to taste this and found it amazing. I had to struggle to keep him off the remaining batch which I sent to his office the next day.
Ingredients:
Mawa – 1/2 cup
Maida – 1/2 cup
Baking Powder – 1/2 tsp
Cardamom Powder – 1/4 tsp
Oil – To Deep Fry
Sugar – 200 gm
Water – 150 ml
Vinegar – 1 tbs
Procedure:
In a bowl mix together mawa, maida, baking powder and cardamom powder.
Rub all the ingredients until it makes a crumbly flour.
Add little water to make a stiff dough.
Pat the dough into a disc with your palm.
Slice it into two.
Place one portion on the other and pat it again into a disc.
Repeat this process 4 times.
Now shape the dough into a cuboid.
Slice the rectangle into smaller cuboids.
Heat oil and deep fry the pieces in medium flame until nicely browned on all the sides.
By the time you start kneading the dough, in another stove mix sugar and water in a pan and bring it to boil.
Allow it to boil until it reaches one thread consistency.
Add vinegar and remove from flame and set aside.
Once the gajas are fried, add them to the warm syrup and let them soak in for 30 minutes.
Remove from the syrup and arrange on a plate and allow them to cool down.
Store in airtight jar.
Kheer-er Goja / Khira Gaja - Indian Sweet Recipes
Ingredients
- Mawa - 1/2 cup
- Maida - 1/2 cup
- Baking Powder - 1/2 tsp
- Cardamom Powder - 1/4 tsp
- Oil-to deep fry
- Sugar - 200 gm
- Water -150 ml
- Vinegar - 1 tbs
Instructions
- In a bowl mix together mawa, maida, baking powder and cardamom powder.
- Rub all the ingredients until it makes a crumbly flour.
- Add little water to make a stiff dough.
- Pat the dough into a disc with your palm.
- Slice it into two.
- Place one portion on the other and pat it again into a disc.
- Repeat this process 4 times.
- Now shape the dough into a cuboid.
- Slice the rectangle into smaller cuboids.
- Heat oil and deep fry the pieces in medium flame until nicely browned on all the sides.
- By the time you start kneading the dough, in another stove mix sugar and water in a pan and bring it to boil.
- Allow it to boil until it reaches one thread consistency.
- Add vinegar and remove from flame and set aside.
- Once the gajas are fried, add them to the warm syrup and let them soak in for 30 minutes.
- Remove from the syrup and arrange on a plate and allow them to cool down.
- Store in airtight jar.
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Beautiful name – kheer er goja ! And fantastic sweet ! The texture of the sweet is amazing , golden crisp beauties are tempting me Gayathri , they look awesome .
Love how the cuisines have similar sweets with small variations. You have done such an amazing research and these are amazing. Very warm and inviting.
Omg, i dont mind having these gaja anytime. Kheer er goja looks incredible and very catchy as well. Love this Bengali/Odhisha version of Kajas.. Tempting to the core;
OMG, what a rich sweet !!! You’re really rocking this theme, Gayathri. All these sweets are so unique and looks absolutely delicious. Kudos to your efforts for finding this sweets, trying and sharing here !!!
Very interesting dessert this is. Love your step by step pics, shows the process so clearly. Love the layering part and the deep frying and dunking in sugar part 🙂 🙂 Awesome dessert.
Very tempting, Gayathri. Would love to try out all these delicious sweets.
Melt in mouth gaja looks absolutely pleasing and tempting!!
My my my ! It’s an amazing delicacy and u have mad it so well. If I am not mistaken, this is one of the items for chappan bhog for Lord Jagannatha rath yatra
Gaja is a Odia dish. It features in sukhila bhoga, if not in chhapana bhoga of lord jagannath. There are many dishes offered in jagannath temple as sukhila bhoga (dry prasad) and sankudi bhoga (prasad like besara, mahura,saga)- not everyday but depending on occasion. Kheera gaja is also given as bhoga (prasad) during pujas in odia households.
Unique name of a unique kind of sweet dish. At first glance looks like sakarpara, but its so different. I’m yearning for something sweet and wouldn’t mind a piece of kheer er goja.
Wow Gayathri, the outer look of the sweet is so sinful and I am sure as you said it must have tasted out of the world!..can’t wait to try it myself sometime..
Oh my this is so much torcher gayathiri, delicious is just a word .. They look so sinful and you have perfected the recipe so well. My mouth is salivating parcel me some 😀 looks so so so yummy , Kalakiteenga !!
Wow Gayathri you are killing this theme! Love the nme and these deep fried golden beauties! Rich, royal and divine!
This is just sheer beauty Gayathri! What an amazing recipe and you have done a great job with your finds of milk sweets.
This is very interesting dessert and I am sure it must have tasted as delicious a sit looks. O am just amazed at your research and strict theme, very nicely planned Gayatri.
These gaja also look great. Seems like Shruthi had a blast with all these delicacies.
Looks can be deceptive right! The sweet looks so simple but definitely so sinful! Super find Gayathri!
Omg what a lovely collection you have with sweets, Mouthwatering.