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Malai Peda | Indian Sweets Recipe

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Making pedas takes a lot of patience but it is worth the patience ( especially when you make homemade khoa) and work after all you get to taste this melt in mouth peda which is heaven for the soul. I am here with yet another peda today, it is my version of malai peda. After I got to experiment a lot of peda’s , I came up with these white beauties, the challenge was keeping the pedas white which was the tricky part, though it doesn’t look pure white.  This peda turned so well and was really happy, the QC tester ( my H) also approved with double thumbs up so this has to be posted. Peda is my favorite Diwali sweet. In my childhood we used to wait for Diwali to get those delicious pedas, I used to admire the shape and the chakra designs on the peda it amazed me as a kid. Sometimes small things bring a lot of happiness, and little things matter a lot to me, hubby took this peda and the mango peda to the office and all his friends just enjoyed and showered me with compliments, glad to have such friends around who appreciate all the little things I do. I love making sweets a lot though I don’t have a sweet tooth, I am a spicy food lover. Moving on to the recipe now.


5.0 from 6 reviews
Malai Peda | Indian Sweets Recipe
 
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Malai peda is melt in mouth kind of sweet, which is milk based and takes patience to make them.
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Recipe type: Sweets
Cuisine: Indian Cuisine
Serves: 10
Ingredients
  • Paneer - 1 cup
  • Milk- ¼ cup
  • Heavy Cream-1 cup
  • Sugar -1/4 cup
  • Sweetened Khoa - ½ cup
  • Cardamom pd - ¼ tsp
  • Slivered Pistachios and Rose petals - for garnish
Instructions
  1. In a mixie grind the paneer and milk mixture coarsely.
  2. Heat a pan and pour in the paneer and milk mixture.
  3. Add sweetened khoa, heavy cream, sugar, cardamom pd to it and stir constantly.
  4. In a medium flame cook the milk mixture till it reduces and leaves the sides of the pan.
  5. Turn off the heat and transfer the peda dough to a plate.
  6. Let it cool completely and then divide them into equal portion.
  7. Form a ball and then flatten them into disc shapes.
  8. Do the same for all the peda dough.
  9. Garnish them with pistachios and rose petals.


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Mango Peda| Indian Sweets Recipe

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I have been having this post in the draft from 2016 and it is high time I shared the recipe with you all. I love posting recipes or should say my experiments in the kitchen, It gives me more of a satisfaction and happiness. So here I am with a recipe I had experimented in my kitchen 2 years back but still, it is very close to my heart recipe. Summer means mangoes for every Indian out there. The only thing I love about summer is its seasonal fruits from muskmelon to mangoes. Mangoes are one of my fav and in my childhood, I and bro used to fight for the seed part as it had most of the flesh in it. In one such summer season, we found ripe, sweet, luscious mangoes and I planned to have some as is and some for experimenting a mango flavored peda. Yes, I am big time peda fan, and turning to be a  peda scientist now (my hubby says so) . After an amazing response to my blueberry peda , as promised am up with another fruit flavored peda.

The recipe was not meditated and it just happened, the outcome was soft and yummy pedas. I made these pedas for the popular Tamil magazine “Aval Kitchen” under North Indian sweets category for their November 2016 edition. Moving on to the recipe.


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An Innovative peda with mango flavor added makes it look more vibrant and tastes just delicious.
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Recipe type: Sweets
Cuisine: Indian
Serves: 15
Ingredients
  • Mango Puree- 1 cup
  • Milk powder- 1 cup
  • Heavy cream - 1 cup
  • Condensed Milk - ½ cup
  • Milk - ¼ cup
  • Butter- 4 tbsp
  • Saffron strands - few
Instructions
  1. Heat a saucepan, melt the butter in it.
  2. Add mango puree and bring to a boil.
  3. Now add heavy cream and milk.
  4. Add milk powder and stir them constantly without any lumps.
  5. After the milk powder is mixed well, add condensed milk
  6. Add the saffron and cook the mixture in low flame till it leaves the sides of pan and forms a mass.
  7. Turn off the heat, and transfer the mixture to a greased plate.
  8. Let the peda dough come to room temperature and cool completely.
  9. You can divide them to equal portions and shape them as you like.
  10. I shaped them the traditional way into disc shapes.
  11. You can use a toothpick or an embossed bottom of the glass to decorate the peda. I used the traditional press.
  12. Garnish them with saffron on top.

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Lengcha Recipe| Langcha (With Milk powder)

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Langchas Recipe
Diwali means sweets for us , we make sweets more than savories. I am here with another sweet which was a great hit and everyone who had showered me with compliments. I thought of making something different and one of the most awaited in my to do list makes it to blog today. Yes these langchas recipe were in my to do list and here I am finally . Langchas recipe are generally paneer based sweet tastes and looks very similar to gulab jamun but shaped differently. These traditional bengali sweet are my recent fav as they taste heavenly , just melts in mouth . Though the the traditional recipe calls for paneer and mawa I have made these using milk pd and heavy cream as I did for my Makan Peda recipe. You can call this is Instant lengcha recipe . I will also share the traditional recipe someday.

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