Mawa Peda Recipe/Khoya Peda/ Kesar MavaPeda

Wishing all my readers and friends a very Happy Diwali ..May this festival of lights enlighten your lives ..Today's post is a favourite sweet/mithai  .Mawa /Mava Peda/Kesar Mawa Peda is a delicious mithai or Indian sweet which is a favourite of many .It'smade with Mawa/mava or Khoya /Evaporated milk solids . The saffron's or kesar gives this pedas a very nice colour and flavour.

These Mawa pedas are very delicious and easy to make at home it hardly took me 30minutes to make these yummy pedas .Try it out you will love it..

ingredients
250 g mava/khoya
1/2 cup sugar
6-7 green cardamom
A generous pinch of saffron/kesar soaked in 1 tbsp warm milk

Method

• Take a heavy bottomed pan or kadhai , I use non stick pan add the Khoya and sugar and mix on low flame.
• Add saffron infused milk and cardamom powder and mix .
• Keep stirring continuously till sugar dissolves and the mixture starts to leave sides.
• Once you see oil releasing and mixture leaving sides ,switch off the flame and take the mixture in a greased thali or plate .
• Let the mixture cool.

• Divide the mixture in small balls and shape it into round pedas.
• I have used a fondant cutter to give it a design you may simply stick almonds or pista flakes on the Peda.
• Enjoy delicious home-made pedas .