Kaju Peda - Indian Sweet. Kaju Peda - Indian Sweet Sweets are very important in every Indian celebration and festivals are never complete without them. Sweets can be made the traditional way which will be time consuming and tedious or quickly using readily available items like milk powders and condensed milk. Kaju Peda is an Indian Sweet dish made using Cashew nuts, sugar and milk powder.
They are rich in taste and easy to make.
Often referred to as Indian donuts, gulab jamun are deep-fried dumplings that are soaked in a sugar syrup laced with rose water.
Intensely sweet, just one small dumpling will be enough to satisfy your craving (unless, of course, you have a major sweet tooth).
You can cook Kaju Peda - Indian Sweet using 5 ingredients and 13 steps. Here is how you cook it.
Ingredients of Kaju Peda - Indian Sweet
- You need 3 liter of Milk.
- Prepare 1 3/4 cup of Sugar.
- Prepare 1/4 cup of Butter/ghee.
- It's 150 grams of Cashew nuts.
- It's 1 of Cardamom powder (Elaichi).
Find out how to make gulab jamun in our step-by-step recipe guide. Indian Sweet recipes: No Indian festival or celebration is complete without a plateful of mithai. Every region, culture and household has one or the other type of mithai that is synonymous to the occasion and integral to our traditions. Cashew, Sugar, Saffron, Nutmeg, Silver Leaves, Fig, Poppy Seeds (Khas Khas), Dark Compound.
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- Heat the milk in a heavy bottomed vessel and bring it to boil..
- Alongside dry roast cashews nuts and powder it..
- Once the milk has risen, bring the heat to meduim and reduce it to half the volume. This will take about 20-30 minutes. Take care to keep on stirring so as not to burn the bottom. Skim the froth to the sides every now and continue this till the end..
- Once it has reduced to half, bring down the heat to meduim-low and reduce the milk further until it becomes thick. Once you see the milk becoming thick, reduce the heat to low. The milk will burn faster at this stage. The whole process of thickening will take about 2-3 hours...
- Once the milk has become thick and has started leaving the sides of the vessel, you have made "Khoya". We can buy khoya from any Indian/ Asian store just like Paneer, to save time. But I always prefer making it myself because you can decide the consistency of Khoya. For making Peda you need soft Khoya, that is not very solid and thick..
- Add sugar and ghee to the khoya and keep on stirring..
- Once the sugar has dissolved, add the powdered cashew nuts.and mix well until you see no lumps at all. Finally add Cardamom powder (Elaichi). Keep stirring till the mixture does not stick to the sides of the vessel..
- Grease a non-stick pan/plate with ghee. Pour the mixture into the pan/plate and let it cool to room temperature..
- Once cooled, apply some ghee onto your hands and roll it into 35-40 small balls and top it with cashew. Ghee will prevent the peda mixture from sticking onto your hands, so you may have to apply it after every 2 or 3 balls. The ghee will also give the peda a shiny gloss..
- Now you have Kaju Peda for Navratri, Diwali or whatever occassion it may be..
- You can make Khoya beforehand to save time and keep it in an air tight container in fridge for 2-3 days.
- You can make Kaju burfi in the same way but you mut not add the ghee as given in step 6. Pour the mixture into a greased non-stick pan of desired shape and size. Once cool, cut the burfi into the desired shape ( most common being daimond shape). Top with pistachios and you have Kaju Burfi ready..
- Preparation time - 3 hours for making khoya and 30 minutes for making peda mixture. This does not include the time for cooling the mixture..
The name suggests it to be just a sweet store, but believe me it has a lot more of varieties as in drinks, chocolates n snacks. These Indian desserts are in high demand all over the world. All the different popular Indian desserts hail from various parts of India. Almost every state in this country has its own variety of 'mithai' or sweetmeat. For example, rasgulla is a popular Indian sweet from Kolkata.
