Coconut and nut pastries (mava gujiya)

Holi was one of the busiest times in my grandma’s house. I remember how lunch and sometimes dinner was cooked early so that the latter part of the day could be spent making gujiya and other savoury things. It may look quick, but we are talking hundreds of such homemade pastries, so it was a lot of work. The neighbourhood and house help were given boxes full of these as a token gift and since these last for almost a week if stored properly, we always had lots of them left for a snack after the festival had winded up.