Dharwad Peda, a rich milk dessert popular in the state of Karnataka. Traditionally its made with milk and sugar. We can make it quickly using store bought paneer.
Ingredients:
- 1 Litre Milk, prefer buffalo milk with high fat content
- 1 tablespoon lemon juice for curdling
- 2 tablespoons Ghee
- 1/4 Milk, during pedha preparation
- 1/4 cup Sugar
- 1/4 teaspoon Cardamon powder
Instructions:
- Make paneer by heating milk and bringing to boil on medium flame, then curdling with lemone juice.
- As it starts curdling, stop heating and allow milk protein / paneer to separate completely.
- Strain out paneer and squeeze out entire water. Keep paneer / cheena aside.
- In a pan, heat ghee and add crumbled paneer. Roast paneer.
- Continue stirring and heating for 10 minutes till it changes colour to light brown and is completely dry.
- Now add sugar and a tbsp of milk. Saute till sugar dissolves.
- Continue stirring on medium flame till it gets darker brown. Add little milk in between to keep the mixture moist.
- Once darker brown, allow to cook and grind with cardamon to fine powder.
- Saute this ground mixture again with 2-3 tbsp milk. Stir and cook till it darkens further.
- Add milk to keep mixture little moist and avoid hardening of sugar.
- Allow to cool. Once cool, take a portion of mixture and roll into cylindrical, nicely consistent ball.
- Roll this peda into castor sugar and coat with sugar granules.
- Dharwad Peda is ready to be served! Store in dry container for future use.
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