Peda Recipe with Condensed Milk and Saffron
An easy Peda Recipe made with condensed milk and flavored with saffron and cardamom. Ready in less than 30 minutes and sure to be a highlight of your dessert platter.
Servings: 20 pedas
Calories: 38kcal
Equipment
Ingredients
- 1 batch Chaina recipe
- ⅔ cup Sweetened condensed milk full fat
- ¼ cup Milk
- 3 Green Cardamoms or 1 teaspoon powdered cardamom
- ⅛ teaspoon Saffron strands or a generous pinch
- 8-10 Pistachios coarsely chopped
- Ghee to grease
Instructions
- In a blender, add chaina, condensed milk, green cardamoms, saffron and milk. Blend until smooth.
- Set a non-stick pan on medium low heat and transfer the blended mixture to the pan. Start cooking the mixture slowly, stirring continuously until it thickens.
- You will see that as the mixture thickens, it starts to come together, almost like a wet dough. This whole exercise should not take more than 12-15 minutes.
- Turn the heat off and allow the peda mixture to cool down a little bit so that it is easy to form into little discs with your hands.
- Grease your hands with ghee (recipe here). Take a small portion of the mixture, I would say approximately a teaspoon, and roll into a small ball and flatten it a bit to form into a disc.
- Press some chopped pistachios on top of each peda as a garnish. Enjoy!
Video
Notes
Nonstick Pan: You will need a good nonstick pan to cook the peda mixture. Due to a variety of reasons like the sugar and milk solids in the ingredients, if a non stick pan is not used, the mixture will stick and you won't get the desired results.
Don't overcook: You have to turn the heat off on the peda mixture as soon as it starts to come together and resembles a Pate a choux dough (just like in the homemade churros recipe). Overcooking will result in non-fudgy, dry pedas.
Storage: As is with most milk based recipes, store these pedas in a airtight container in the refrigerator.
Nutrition
Calories: 38kcal | Carbohydrates: 6g | Protein: 1g | Fat: 1g | Saturated Fat: 1g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 0.1g | Monounsaturated Fat: 0.4g | Cholesterol: 4mg | Sodium: 14mg | Potassium: 50mg | Fiber: 0.1g | Sugar: 6g | Vitamin A: 34IU | Vitamin C: 0.4mg | Calcium: 35mg | Iron: 0.1mg
