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Homemade Khoya / Unsweetened Kova (Khoa) / How to make Mawa (Khoya) at Home

October 19, 2013 By Aarthi 15 Comments

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Khoya is a super ingredients which is used in many delicious sweets. But sadly i couldn’t find that amazing stuff in my super market. So i have to make my own khoya..I have made a delicious gulabjamun using the khoya. For this diwali i thought to make some sweets using khoya, so i decided to share the recipe for homemade khoya with you all, so if you cannot find khoya in your place no worries you can make it yourself..

Making khoya is not at all difficult, it is so easy to make. you just need full fat milk. Boil it down till it is thicken. That’s it. I would recommend you to use a large kadai for this process, so the milk thickens faster. Try this out and make many delicious sweets out of it..



Cooking Time : 1 hour or more depends on the size of the pan
Makes : 1 cup of khoya


Ingredients:

Full Fat Milk / Full Cream Milk – 1 liter


Method:

Take a large non stick kadai. Pour in milk and heat it up. Once it started to boil, mix it up and let it continue to boil.

Keep mixing and scrape the sides of the kadai, as you will see the milk skin sticking to them.

At one stage you will see the milk getting thicker. Keep mixing.

Now the milk will get even thicker and you will see it coming together.

Dont leave the pan alone at this stage, because the milk will get burned. keep mixing. 

At one stage the khoya will leave the sides and form into one solid mass.

Switch off the flame and remove them to a bowl. Allow it to cool and store it in a air tight container in the fridge for upto a week.


Notes:
1)As the khoya cools down, it thicken a lot. No worries about that, you can crumble it easily by hands.

2) The khoya gets hard when you store them in fridge, to make it softer, bring it back to room temparature and use.

3) You can store khoya in a air tight container. Keep it in fridge always.

4) The amount of khoya you get depends on the milk you use.


Pictorial:

Take full cream milk in a large kadai..I like to use non stick
Bring it to boil
Let it boil..

Mix well often

Scrape the sides of the kadai with a spoon

it will slowly get thick

Keep stiring

Let it keep on reducing

As you see the milk solids started to form

Keep cooking

Look it is getting even thicker

At this stage you should keep on stiring

So it doesn’t burn

At one stage it will leave the sides of the pan..
This is the correct stage

You can make lots of sweets with this..

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  1. Coral crue

    October 19, 2013 at 8:19 am

    wow it looks mouth watering, always wanted to know how to prepare it at home. thanks!

    Reply
  2. victoria bakes

    October 19, 2013 at 8:42 am

    this is fantastic! always good to use homemade ingredients. thanks!

    Reply
  3. Shobana Vijay

    October 19, 2013 at 12:07 pm

    Hi aarthi.Thanks for sharing.Will try at home and not to get from shop.

    Reply
  4. Linsy Patel

    October 19, 2013 at 12:41 pm

    right time to use this post to make Diwali sweets.

    Reply
  5. Pravina Parikh

    April 7, 2014 at 6:09 pm

    Pictures looks mouth watering
    thanks for posting fresh mawa recipe
    please visit my blog when you get
    chance

    Reply
  6. Mumtaz begum

    April 27, 2015 at 2:47 pm

    Shall we refrigerate this

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  7. Aarthi

    April 28, 2015 at 4:29 am

    @Mumtaz begumyes u can store this in fridge

    Reply
  8. Anonymous

    June 27, 2015 at 1:28 pm

    hi Aarthi,
    Can this be made with the gulab jamun powder?

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  9. Aarthi

    June 30, 2015 at 5:00 am

    @Anonymousno it cannot

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  10. durga kalyan

    October 31, 2015 at 8:14 am

    hi

    i tried this with 1 lt full fat milk in a non stick pan. after 2 hours the end product was not like what i see in pics here. mine was grainy, little salty, very dry and little reddish in color. i think my khova is fried in the butter/ghee that came from milk.
    where did i go wrong.
    it is super dry, can i make gulab jamun with it.
    pls tell what i have to do, to make it soft again to make jamuns.

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  11. Aarthi

    October 31, 2015 at 5:19 pm

    @durga kalyani think you have taken it way too far..What you can do is, add little milk and add it to a blender and pulse it few times so it gets soft again

    Reply
  12. Rohini Balasubramanian

    March 16, 2016 at 3:29 pm

    Hi, awesome blog.. I love and tried all the recipes too..could you plz tell me how to prepare sweetened Konya and plain one

    Reply
  13. Aarthi

    March 21, 2016 at 2:03 pm

    @Rohini Balasubramaniancheck this
    https://www.yummytummyaarthi.com/2013/10/paal-kova-in-10-mins-dhoodh-peda.html

    Reply
  14. Unknown

    May 16, 2016 at 4:19 pm

    great recipe

    Reply
  15. Vinothini Velmurugan

    February 20, 2018 at 3:33 am

    For khova . Try ‘gho ‘brand unsweetened khova . It is the best . It is available in market these days .

    Reply

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