Monday, September 2, 2019


Gur ji churi or churmo is a crumble made with whole wheat flour. Flour dumplings are deep fried to a crispy texture and crumbled in a pestle and mortar or ground in a chopper. Sugar or jaggery is added along with hot ghee and mixed together. This is made as a prashad on Shivratri day.
Since I am using organic jaggery powder in this recipe I have added and mixed it. If you are using the usual jaggery it needs to be melted with water to remove the impurities. Then we have to thicken the syrup until it starts bubbling and then mixed it to the crumble along with hot ghee.

Wheat flour .... 2 cups
Organic jaggery .. 3/4 cup to 1 cup (to your liking)
Ghee ...........  4-5  tbsps
Oil ........... for frying the dumplings.
Cardamom powder ... 1/4 tsp (optional)


Take the flour in a plate or bowl. Make a well in the middle and add 2 tbsps of ghee.

Mix it well and check the moin. If the flour forms a lump then it is perfect.

Add water little by little and make a stiff dough.

Divide the dough into 7-8 small dumplings.

Heat oil and drop the dumplings.

Turn them to fry evenly to a golden brown colour.

Remove them on a paper tissue.

Grind them coarsely in a chopper or pound in a pestle and mortar to make the crumble.

 Add the jaggery powder and cardamom powder.

Heat the remaining ghee and pour it over the mixture.

Mix it well.


  1. This looks similar to churma we make in north. A healthy treat with shole wheat and jaggery and a good snack to satisfy your sweet cravings.

    1. Yes Renu.. It is the same churma like we get in Rajasthan.Thanks for liking.

  2. The steps to making gur na ladwa is the same up till where you grind the muthia as we call it into a coarse powder. After that we made jaggery syrup, add to the churma and make ladoos. I usually make the ladoos during Diwali. Coming diwali will try out your gur ji churi as its an interesting recipe.

    1. We also make the laddoos butin that we grind the muthias to a coarse texture or we make a roti and cruumble it.

  3. I made this once as part of the Rajasthani combo Dal Baati Churma and it was so good. I need to update that post and make it again !

    1. Yes Mireille that one is a traditional meal of Rajasthan and so popular.



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