Quick Microwave Peda with Condensed-milk and mawa milk powder.
Tuesday, November 23, 2021
Pedas are common sweets shared during Diwali festival. There are many variety of Pedas made with different ingredients which gives different flavor. The basic main ingredient to prepare pedas is milk. Here is a recipe for preparing instant peda with condensed milk and mawa powder (milk powder). Traditionally, preparing peda would take boiling milk and stirring it continuously (for about 30 to 40 minutes) until it is reduced and is thick before adding sugar, saffron and cardamom ... really a long process. Thanks to condensed milk and microwave oven, now you can prepare pedas in no time.
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Important thing to keep in mind is the ratio, it 1:1½ - for one cup of condensed-milk, add 1 and half cup of milk powder. I used 14 oz can of condensed-milk and it yielded about 30 pedas. Hope you will try this recipe and enjoy it with your family.
Ingredients:
- 1 can - sweetened condensed-milk [14 oz can ]
- 1 1/2 can - mawa milk powder
- 1 1/2 tbsp - ghee
- 1/4 tsp - saffron crushed
- 1/4 tsp - kewra water
- 1/4 tsp - rose water
- 1/5 tsp - cardamom powder
- 1 tbsp - pistachio ( small slices for garnishing)
- 1 tbsp - warm milk for soaking saffron ( or mix 1 tbsp water and 1/2 spoon of condense milk - mix and warm it before adding saffron
Method:
- Warm a tablespoon of milk and add saffron. I use a pestle to slightly crush the saffron after soaking for couple of minutes this helps in releasing more color.
- In a microwave safe bowl, mix together ghee, condensed milk and milk powder. I suggest to use a thick glass or ceramic microwave safe bowl rather than plastic bowl.
- Cook the mixture in microwave for 1 minute, remove and give it a stir.
- Repeat this process 3 times and stir after every minute. The is not as sticky any more and leaves the bowl while stirring [See notes below]
- Add kewra water, rose water and cardamom powder
- Keeping aside bit of saffron strands for garnish, add rest of the saffron milk in the mixture.
- Mix it all well.
- Microwave for 1 more minute, the mixture will thicken and leave the sides of the bowl, also the mixture will look bit fluffy. Though the mixture looks soft, it will harden as it cools. Microwaving more will give a chewy texture after it cools.
- Stir and set aside for about 5 minutes or so for it cool.
- When it is lukewarm, apply ghee on your palm and make round balls and give the shape of the pedas.(see below for more ideas)
- Garnish the pedas with saffron and chopped pistachios.
Shaping the pedas
- You may just form them into balls, slightly press to flatten it and garnish with chopped nuts.
- I used the side of thread-spool for giving it flower shape by just pressing it on the formed peda balls.
- You may use tip of a juicer and press over the peda balls to form flower like indentation
- Also may use mini-modak mold to shape into modak-shaped pedas
- Roll the ready mixture in-between parchment paper with use of a rolling-pin to about one centimetre thickness. With a sharp knife, cut them into squares or diamond shapes. Garnish with edible silver leaf (Vark).
- I also found a moon-cake mold [on amazon ], which worked out nicely to get uniform shape and size. (see the post's last picture below)
- I add bit of condensed-milk with the saved saffron and warm it a little. Since condensed-milk has sugar, it helps in sticking the saffron on the pedas.
- Garnish with saffron strands and chopped pistachios and serve.
NOTE:
- Important: ratio is 1:1.5 (or 2:3) that is., for one can/cup of condensed-milk, add 1.5 can/cup of milk powder. I usually use the same emptied condensed milk to measure out the milk powder as well.
- Keep an eye when you microwave the mixture. Number of time you may have to microwave depends on the quantity and wattage (power) of your microwave oven.
- Normally it will take five one-minute cooking in the microwave for a 14 ounce can of condensed milk ( in my microwave oven). When I make smaller batch of pedas with only half can, I have noticed that the peda mixture is ready by 4th one-minute cooking
- When preparing a big batch of pedas, I place the bowl with ready mixture in another bigger dish with hot water. The reason for this is, as I am working on the mixture to shape them, the mixture will get cold and makes it harder to form the shapes, the sides will crack as I press the shape-stamp over it. Some suggest to microwave for 10 seconds, this process helps to warm up the mixture, but I feel it also makes the mixture bit dry as well.
Variations:
- Chocolate pedas: Add 2 tbsp of coco powder to the mixture to make, add vanilla extract instead skip saffron milk.
- Rose pedas: Add bit more rose water and gulkand (rose petal preserve) before the last round of microwave to make rose flavored pedas. Add couple drops of pink/red food color as well. Skip adding saffron milk.
- You may try other variations like Betel leaf (paan), Coffee flavored pedas
Labels: condensed milk, Festive Food, Microwave, Sweet, Traditional Sweet
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