PEDA

Raksha bandhan is around the corner. Sweets are integral part of any festive celebrations in India. Instead of buying sweets to celebrate Raksha Bandhan, this time try this trusted and popular recipe. Making Peda by traditional method is lengthy and tedious. But this is very quick and easy recipe which gets ready in minutes and needs only few ingredients.

Ingredients-

Milk powder - 2 cup
Condensed milk - 1 can
Ghee or butter- 2 tbs
Cardamom powder - 1/4 tsp
Raisins or pistachios - 20-25

 

Method -

Take a big microwave safe bowl and mix milk powder, condensed milk and ghee together so there are no lumps in the mixture. 

Put it in microwave for 2 minutes, take out mix thoroughly and put in again for 1 minute.

Take out and repeat the process until it comes to a dough consistency. It took 5 minutes in my microwave,  it may take a bit more or less depending on your microwave.

Take out and allow to cool for a couple of minutes, add Cardamom powder mix properly take  small quantity and make a ball, take raisin or pistachio and press it in the middle, shape all pedas like this.  

Let it cool for 4-5 hours.

it yields 20-25 pedas depending on size.

Enjoy