Ghughra

Deep-fried half-moon pastries filled with a fragrant mixture of freshly grated coconut, jaggery, cardamom, and sometimes poppy seeds or raisins — the Kathiyawadi-Gujarati festival sweet made for Holi, Diwali, and weddings. The thin, flaky wheat flour pastry shell is sealed at the edges, deep-fried until golden, and shatters at first bite to release the aromatic, fudgy coconut-jaggery filling.