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Thabdi peda recipe | traditional Gujarati style thabdi peda recipe| peda recipe

Author Nehas Cook Book
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Prep Time 5 minutes
Cook Time 40 minutes
Total Time 45 minutes
Course Dessert, Indian sweets
Cuisine Indian
Servings 8 pieces

Ingredients
 

  • 1 litre milk
  • 230 g or ½ cup + ½ cup sugar
  • ½ tsp alum powder - fitkari powder
  • ¼ tsp cardamom powder

Instructions

  • Firstly, in a large thick-bottomed pan heat milk.
  • Add sugar and stir continuously so the sugar dissolves completely.
  • Now add ½ tsp alum powder (fitkari powder) to the milk. Stir and allow the milk to curdle.
  • Stir continuously as the milk splutters. Milk starts to thicken and water evaporates from it.
  • Then on another side in a pan add ½ cup of sugar and caramelize it. When sugar is completely caramelized and turns brown color then add to the milk mixture.
  • Stir the mixture till the milk mixture thickens and start to separate the pan.
  • Add cardamom powder and mix well.
  • Switch off the gas and allow it to cool the mixture completely.
  • Finally, with greased hand make a round shape peda or set it into block shaped burfi. Garnish with slits of almonds and serve.

Notes

  • If you use lemon juice, then dilute it with water and then add it to milk. Non-diluted Lemon juice makes thabdi taste sour.
  • Cook thabdi on high flame, otherwise if the paneer is overcooked then it will become chewy.
  • Caramelize sugar mixture gives a nice color to thabdi.