What is a Milk Peda or Doodh Peda?
Variations and Different Methods of Making Milk Peda:
1)Traditional Method:
The traditional method of making milk peda requires lots of time and patience. You need to keep simmering milk in a large pot till it is reduced. Then add lots of sugar and keep cooking till it forms into a dough like. Small portions are pinched from it and shaped into peda like. In my opinion that is the most loved recipe from my blog. Here is the recipe for making traditional milk peda.
Traditional Milk Peda / Doodh peda recipe
2)Milk Peda using Sweetened Condensed Milk (Malai Peda):
This is one of the easiest way of making milk peda, It calls for sweetened condensed milk as the main ingredient. Condensed milk is cooked together with little lemon juice and milk powder till it thickens. Then the mixture is shaped into small pedas.
Milk Peda using Condensed Milk Recipe
3)Milk Peda made using Milk Powder:
This method is also an instant version of making milk peda. It is made using milk powder. I have added saffron to add nice fragrance in the peda. It hardly takes less than 10 mins to make.
Milk peda using milk powder (Kesar peda)
Here are few variations of making Milk Peda / Malai Peda / Doodh Peda:
But for those busy people, Check out my No Cook Milk Peda Recipe.
VIDEO RECIPE FOR MILK PEDA:
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Ingredients
- Full Fat Cow's Milk - 1 liter
- Sugar - 1 cup
- Lemon Juice - 1 tsp
- Ghee - a little to grease hands
- Pistachios - 2 tblspn chopped very finely
Instructions
- Take milk in a heavy bottom pan and heat it. Once it boil, keep stiring and cook till the milk has reduced in half.Once it is reduced in half, add in lemon juice and keep stiring.
- It will curdle a little. keep cooking on high flame. The milk will get lot more thick now.
- Add in sugar and mix well. Cook this for few more mins till it gets really thick
- Now it will change a yellow in colour. Keep cooking till it gets thick and leaves the sides of the pan.
- Now you will see no water in the mix.
- Take it off the heat and leave it to cool down in the pan itself. It will get thick like a khoya.
- Grease your hands with ghee.
- Now take a small portion on your hands. Shape it into balls and press it little Now make a hole in the center.
- Repeat this for remaining mix. Chop pista very finely. Now place few chopped pista over this and chill.
- Serve cold.
Notes
2)Keep stirring so the pedas doesn't catch in the bottom.
3)use wider pan for speeding up the cooking process.
4)Since it is made with real milk. Store in fridge.
5)Don't use too much milk than recommended.
Nutrition
Pictorial:
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| Take milk in a heavy bottom pan |
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| keep stiring untill it comes to a boil |
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| once it reaches a boil, continue boiling till it is reduced in half |
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| Once it is reduced in half, add in a tsp of lemon juice |
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| keep stiring |
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| Now you can see the milk has curdled very little… Dont add too much lemon juice |
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| now it will start to thick much faster |
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| once it is almost thick, add in sugar |
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| keep cooking |
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| Now you can see it has got really thick |
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| The colour will change to little yellowish |
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| now it has started leaving the sides |
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| cook for few more mins till no liquid is left and remove the pan from heat |
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| leave it cool down, |
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| now look at the texture it has got a lot thick |
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| grease your hands lightly with ghee |
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| take a small portion of the mix |
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| roll into balls |
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| flatten in |
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| make a hole |
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| all done…. |
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| now i chopped few pista very finely |
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| place them on top the peda |
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| Refrigerate and enjoy |
Ooohhh! Thank you so much for this recipe. I look forward to the chocolate one too. I think I will make these as a gift wrap for my friends…looks Yummmmmmy!!!!
P.S. You are doing a great job with your recipes. All the recipes I had tried from your blog came out perfectly- not had failed so far. Thanks so much! 🙂
Thnk you .the pictures r really helpful .
Delicious!!!!! Thank you so much for sharing this recipe!!!!
Hi , I tried ur above recipe, thank u for fr such an easy one, … the pedhas came out really gud , tasty, bt they were a litl sticky… can u suggest anything to make it less sticky.. thank yoj
@renu goharFirst it will be sticky, when you give it some resting and setting time. It will get normal
Just now I tried. It came out nice.
Can I add kesar to this peda? When can I do that ? Thanks for this sweet recepie:)
@Anonymousyes u can..just add it when the milk has thickened
Can I use Condensed milk instead of sugar? Will it work?
@AnonymousIn this recipe sugar gives the texture
Hi aarthi…. Very delicious I tried yesterday and came out so good … I'm doing many of ur recipes only and tasted very unique I'm so happy… THANK YOU :):)
Hi aarthi…. Very delicious I tried yesterday and came out so good … I'm doing many of ur recipes only and tasted very unique I'm so happy… THANK YOU :):)
Hi aarthi…. Very delicious I tried yesterday and came out so good … I'm doing many of ur recipes only and tasted very unique I'm so happy… THANK YOU :):)
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Hi….tried ur recipe today ….taste was gud but it was a little chewey …..and the colour also little yellowish. Can u tel me wat went wrong.but ur instructions were easy to follow.
Shall i use curd instead of lemon juice in milk peda
@Anonymousyes u can use
@Sneha GlaxtonI think u have over cooked it and the sugar has cooked to much whihc turned it chewy
Hi, Can I use honey instead of sugar?
@Jony GajarSorry it wont work..Sugar has to be used
Yummy… Thanks for sharing…
Hii Aarthi.. Thanks for ur recipes.
Can we use yogurt instead of lemon juice. If yes, how much quantity should I add.
@AnonymousAdd just 1 to 2 tblspn
Hi..I tried the receipe today..came nicely..thanks
Hii Aarthii.. I always try your recipes.. Thanks a lot.. Can we add buttermilk instead of milk n lemon juice.. If yes how much quantity should I add ?
@Anonymousyes u can use.add just a tsp
Can v use khoya directly bought from shop. Vl it taste the same??
@Sajida Kazino it wont taste the same, but u can use it for making instant peda.
Amazing Way to Learng Recipe!! Watching steps in Image is more easy to learn than watching any video… Good work!!
Very nice n easy.can we take redemade khoya ?
@Jaya Mandlekaryes u can use readymade khoya
Hi,
No need to fry or soak pista, will it tastes good?
@Daya Vaniif u want u can toast them, it will be good on its raw form too
Excellent
Hi sister,
My dooth peda was brittle and can't make it shape,just had it like paal kova!
Thanks,
Daania
I tried this recipe.. It took me around four hours. Only difference is I used curd instead of lemon. And it was my first try.