Mawa peda is an easy, super delicious sweet recipe made with 2 main ingredients – Mawa/khoya and powdered sugar (boora). It is a simple mouth-watering dessert recipe that we get easily at any Indian sweet shop. Learn how to make Halwai style Peda at home-
It’s texture is smooth and melts in the mouth. This recipe is tried and tested recipe which give you the similar results that we get in halwai or Indian sweet shop. Making peda at home does not involve a complex process.
Traditionally, these peda includes khoya (dried milk solids), sugar, nuts and fragrant spices. But this popular treat is surprisingly easy to make at home! Here you’ll find step-by-step instructions with photos to prepare mawa peda (khoya peda) for festivals like holi, diwali and anytime you like.
About Mawa Peda
Mawa peda or khoya peda is rich in calorie rich but hard to resist, indulgent Indian sweet. To make khoya, you need to cook full fat milk on low flame till it reduces to one fourth of its quantity, that is known as mawa or khoya. Then this mixture is sweetened with sugar and flavored with cardamom seeds, is further simmered on low flame till it leaves the sides of the pan. Then small round balls are formed of the cooled mixture and garnished with nuts.
In India, no festivals or occasion is complete without peda. There are many variations of peda available across India, but this recipe shows the easiest way to make instant mawa peda.
Ingredients
This recipe is quite simple, includes very minimum ingredients.
Mawa/Khoya
Sugar/boora
Cardamom seeds
Few chopped nuts (almonds/pistachios)
Serving Suggestions
Mawa Peda or Khoya Peda is a perfect choice for Festivals or Celebrations like holi, diwali and anytime you like.
You can also have this recipe during Navratri or Navratre fasting as it is made with milk only.
Storage
In this recipe the more you will roast the mawa, the more good it would taste and can be stored and consumed for many days.
So, this recipe of peda is easy, quick and does not take much time. Do try this recipe you will surely love it
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Mawa Peda
- Total Time: 15 mins
- Yield: 15–16 1x
Description
Mawa peda is an easy, super delicious sweet recipe made with 2 main ingredients – Mawa/khoya and powdered sugar (boora). It is a simple mouth-watering dessert recipe that we get easily at any Indian sweet shop. Learn how to make Halwai style Peda at home-
Ingredients
- 2½ cups (500 grams) mawa/khoya
- 1½ cups (300 grams) powdered sugar or boora
- 14–15 small green cardamom seeds
- Few almonds or pistachios, finely chopped for garnishing
Instructions
- In a heavy-bottomed pan, add the grated mawa.
- Stir continuously the mawa well on low flame till it becomes light pink.
- Turn off the flame.
- Take out the mixture in a tray and then allow the roasted mawa to cool down a bit.
- Add 6 to 7 grounded cardamoms to the mawa mixture.
- Now, the mixture is ready to make Pedas.
- Meanwhile, ground the remaining cardamoms. Also finely chop the almonds and pistachios.
- Apply a little ghee on your palms and fingers.
- Take a little portion of the mixture. Then start rolling to form round shape.
- Make smooth and crack-free small pedas from the mixture.
- Grease the plate with ghee and make all the pedas one by one and put them on the plate.
- Put 3 to 4 seeds of cardamom and add little chopped nuts in the center of the peda and gently press it with your hand.
- Set aside these prepared pedas for 1 to 2 hours in the open air so that they become dry.
- In this way, Delicious Halwai Style Mawa Peda can be ready at home.
Notes
- Mawa takes a long time to roast but this process makes your pedas much tastier.
- You can also roast the mawa in the microwave without covering. It takes 4-5 minutes and then the mawa gets roasted very well.
- Tagar is also known as boora in some places. Basically, it is granulated just like semolina. You can make it at home with sugar too.
- These pedas are made by pressing the mawa in the round mold or flattened pedas by hand.
- You can store the remaining pedas in an air-tight container so that you can eat them for a week.
- You can also make colored pedas by adding yellow color or saffron to the mawa mixture.
- Adding kewda essence to the mawa, makes it flavorful.
- Prep Time: 5 mins
- Cook Time: 10 mins
- Category: Dessert
- Cuisine: Indian
