PEDA (Indian Sweet)
January 24th, 2009 filed under Desserts
Pedas are an all time favorite sweet. Pedas are like soft milk fudge. Pedas are grainy texture made with milk and sugar, flavored with cardamom. Peda can be served as a candy or as a dessert.
Recipe makes 24.
Ingredients:
- 4 cup paneer
- 1/3 cup milk powder
- 1/3 cup milk
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 3 tablespoon unsalted butter (ghee)
- 1/4 teaspoon cardamom powder (ilatchi)
For Garnish:
- 1 tablespoon sliced pistachios
Method:
- Check the recipe for paneer and make the paneer with whole milk. For this recipe use 4 cups of milk.
- Heat the frying pan on medium. Add butter and let it melt.
- Next add milk, milk powder, and paneer. Mix it well.
- Cook mixture on medium heat stirring continuously until mixture starts leaving the sides of the frying pan and becomes like dough. This should take about 12 minutes. Now this is known as khoya.
- Transfer the khoya into a bowl and let it cool off until khoya becomes just lukewarm.
- Mix the sugar and cardamom powder into the khoya and knead it for about a minute until every thing blends together and become soft dough. Note: if you mix the sugar while khoya is hot that will make pedas soft.
- Divide the mix into about 20 equal parts and roll them into round balls. Lightly press it down so it looks like small patty.
- Put few pieces of sliced pistachios on every peda.
- Pedas should be served at room temperature.
- Pedas can be kept for few days at room temperature and about a month refrigerated.
hi manjula aunty!!
your recipes are so simple yet so good, i just love them, i tried egg less pineapple cake, it turned out beautiful. also i tried panipuri and kaju burfi, everything was gud. thanks a lot. my hubby is a big foodie, he loves watever i make and also he said to say thanks to you from his side also.
Thanks again.
Regards,
Suruchi
hi manjula,
your peda was a hit with my 7 year old son.thanks a lot.
HI MANJULA AUNTY,
I TRIED PEDDA RECIPE IT WAS AWESOME. MY FAMILY LIKED IT SO MUCH. THANKS FOR POSTING SUCH GOOD AND SIMPLE RECIPES. I VISIT YOUR SITE AFTER COUPLE OF DAYS JUST TO FIND SOMETHING NEW. THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
GURMEET
HI MANJULA AUNTY,
I TRIED PEDDA RECIPE IT WAS AWESOME. MY FAMILY LIKED IT SO MUCH. THANKS FOR POSTING SUCH GOOD AND SIMPLE RECIPES. I VISIT YOUR SITE AFTER COUPLE OF DAYS JUST TO FIND SOMETHING NEW. THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
GURMEET
hello manjula aunty
i tried making peda yesterday and it turned out so yummy…i am really happy with the outcome..thanks for this and so many easy and tasty recipies…keep up this good work..!
i tried making peda with these proportions, but the dough became dry and granular. i had used vanaspati instead of ghee. it looked like kalakand in the end. please advise where i am going wrong.
Swagatika, I would suggest remaking the recipe with ghee and not use vanaspati.
Hello Manjula,
in your video, u said that milk powder, milk is 1/3 rd cup. Howver ur recipie ingredients text says that milk powdwer n milk is 3/4 cup. kindly clarify the exact measurement.
mohini.
Mohini,
use 3/4 cup of milk powder.
Thank you so much for having this site. I love cooking with you.
Thank you so much……i tried it n the result was awesome….u r simply great in cooking…
hello Aunty,
I tried making peda seeing ur video & it was a grant success
thanks a lot.