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Published: Oct 24, 2013 · Modified: Feb 27, 2021 by Sandhya Ramakrishnan · This post may contain affiliate links

Doodh peda / Milk peda / Milk Fudge

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Diwali festival is not complete without making this delicious Doodh Peda or Milk Peda recipe. This is a traditional recipe to make the Easy Peda for festival season.

Doodh peda

For the last week of this month’s Blogging marathon, I was assigned the theme, cooking from fellow Blogging marathoners who ran the A- Z marathon that happened during the month of September.

Usually, when given a lot of options, it should be pretty easy to choose something. It was totally the opposite of this scenario. I had such a hard time choosing from almost 700 plus recipes that were posted during the marathon.

WHY MAKE THIS RECIPE

For the first recipe, I chose to make the doodh peda from Sara’s Kitchen. The reason I chose this recipe was, since it is Diwali season, I wanted to make something traditional and sweet. Second reason is I love Tharattipaal, or in this case the peda. Therattipaal is something that is made for sure during Diwali, when I was growing up.

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Right after the Oil bath on the morning of Diwali after giving me the spicy Diwali lehyam, tharattipaal is the first sweet my mother puts into my mouth. When I saw that Saraswathi had made this Milk peda using the traditional long way, I immediately decided I wanted to make this. Her pattern was made beautifully on the peda and that was one other thing that lured me into making this.

The Milk Peda recipe is very similar to the tharattipaal recipe, except it is allowed to cook slightly longer on the flame to harden it up more. This allows us to make it into peda shape. I made the peda’s as a small bite size pieces and arranged them in little muffin/ cup cake liners. This allowed me to easily distribute it to my kids. This is also my first recipe for this year’s Diwali festival.

Doodh peda serving with paper bowl

Check out my other Diwali sweets and Savory recipes here!

Ingredients to make Doodh peda – (made about 20 small pedas)

  • Whole milk – 4 cups
  • Sugar – ¾ cup
  • Cardamom powder – ¼ tsp
  • Ghee - 1 tsp
Delicious Doodh peda

Procedure –

  • In a heavy wide pan, heat the milk until it boils. Using a wide pan really helps to quicken the cooking process.
Boiling Milk
  • Once the milk boils, reduce the heat to low-med and continue to cook, stirring frequently.
  • The milk will slowly begin to condense and about 60-80 mins later, it will attain a mud like consistency.
Boiling milk in low flame
  • At this stage add the sugar and mix well. Continue to cook until the mixture thickens. Now add the ghee and cardamom powder and mix well. Cook it for 5 more minutes and you will notice that the mixture starts to come together in a halwa consistency.
Making Kova
  • Turn off the flame and allow it cool slightly.
  • Now using a greased hand, knead the Kova well.
  • Divide it into small balls and flatten it slightly. If needed, decorate using nuts of your choice.
  • I placed them in individual muffin liners.
Arranging Milk peda in muffin liners

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Doodh peda in a Tray

Doodh Peda / Milk Peda

Diwali festival is not complete without making this delicious Doodh Peda or Milk Peda recipe. This is a traditional recipe to make the Easy Peda for festival season.
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Course: Dessert, Diwali Recipes, sweets
Cuisine: Indian
Diet: Vegetarian
Cook Time: 2 hours
Total Time: 2 hours
Servings: 20 pieces
Calories: 61kcal
Author: Sandhya Ramakrishnan

Ingredients

  • 4 cups Whole milk
  • ¾ cup Sugar
  • ¼ teaspoon Cardamom powder
  • 1 teaspoon Ghee

Instructions

  • In a heavy wide pan, heat the milk until it boils. Using a wide pan really helps to quicken the cooking process.
  • Once the milk boils, reduce the heat to low-med and continue to cook, stirring frequently.
  • The milk will slowly begin to condense and about 60-80 mins later, it will attain a mud like consistency.
  • At this stage add the sugar and mix well. Continue to cook until the mixture thickens. Now add the ghee and cardamom powder and mix well. Cook it for 5 more minutes and you will notice that the mixture starts to come together in a halwa consistency.
  • Turn off the flame and allow it cool slightly.
  • Now using greased hand, knead the kova well.
  • Divide it into small balls and flatten it slightly. If needed, decorate using nuts of your choice.
  • I placed them in individual muffin liners.

Nutrition

Calories: 61kcal | Carbohydrates: 10g | Protein: 2g | Fat: 2g | Saturated Fat: 1g | Cholesterol: 6mg | Sodium: 21mg | Potassium: 64mg | Sugar: 10g | Vitamin A: 79IU | Calcium: 55mg | Iron: 1mg
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  1. Pavani N says

    October 29, 2013 at 2:29 am

    Perfectly made pedas. I'm too lazy to make this, but I'm sure I'll thoroughly enjoy it if served 🙂

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  2. Navaneetham Krishnan says

    October 26, 2013 at 10:44 am

    Ohhh!!! Adore the outcome as well as the creative use of the muffin liners.

    Reply
  3. Harini-Jaya R says

    October 26, 2013 at 2:47 am

    Good one..love the sweet!

    Reply
  4. vaishali sabnani says

    October 25, 2013 at 2:47 pm

    Delicious is the word...I can virtually enjoy and say..these look so good.

    Reply
  5. Nivedhanams Sowmya says

    October 25, 2013 at 6:12 am

    so tempting and so beautiful!! love the arrangement!!

    Sowmya

    Reply
  6. Jayanthi Padmanabhan says

    October 25, 2013 at 9:23 am

    Beautifully made. I never have the patience to reduce milk.

    Reply
  7. Priya Suresh says

    October 25, 2013 at 7:01 am

    Love the way you have presented this fantastic pedas, they came out simply prefect.

    Reply
  8. Saraswathi Tharagaram says

    October 25, 2013 at 6:07 am

    These pedas are very addictive and you drive crazy to make it again.. Thanks for trying dear..

    Reply
  9. Rajani S says

    October 25, 2013 at 5:10 am

    These finish off in minutes at my place. I don;t make these, but my cousin routinely gets it from Thirunelveli every time he visits us. A good choice for celebrating Diwali 🙂

    Reply
  10. Manjula Bharath says

    October 24, 2013 at 8:51 pm

    wow so delicious and yummy peda there 🙂 looks fantastic !!

    Reply
  11. divya says

    October 24, 2013 at 10:43 pm

    wow .. they look gorgeous and super tempting

    Reply
  12. Divya Prakash says

    October 24, 2013 at 2:05 pm

    Doodh peda looks delicious.. One of my favorite dessert.. Love your presentation 🙂

    Reply
  13. Srivalli says

    October 24, 2013 at 4:20 pm

    Looks very nice...good presentation...

    Reply
  14. Chef Mireille says

    October 24, 2013 at 4:02 pm

    came out so beautiful!

    Reply
  15. Vijayalakshmi Dharmaraj says

    October 24, 2013 at 3:34 pm

    Superb... today i made the paal kova will post soon... lovely presentation... yummy...

    Reply

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