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-
Scale
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.
- Category: Dessert
- Cuisine: Indian
Keywords: Diwali Sweet Recipes, How to make Mawa Peda, Instant Khoya Peda Recipe, Khoya Peda Recipe