How to Cook Appetizing Milk Dates Peda

How to Cook Appetizing Milk Dates Peda Delicious, fresh and tasty.

Milk Dates Peda. Milk Dates Peda - Easy, Delicious Diwali Sweet Easy to make and delicious these Milk Dates peda can be an excellent addition to your Diwali cooking. The slight twist with the addition of dates works wonder to the traditional peda recipe. Great recipe for Milk Dates Peda.

It is a traditional food used to celebrate the Hindu festival of Diwali, also called Deepavali, the festival of lights.

If not, heat milk and then add the dates, mix until it becomes soft.

This dates recipe can be used to make halwa or a soft set burfi or even a ladoo.

You can cook Milk Dates Peda using 7 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Milk Dates Peda

1. It’s 1 cup of condensed milk.

2. It’s 20 of pitted dates.

3. Prepare 20 Tbsp of milk powder.

4. You need 1 Tbsp of butter.

5. You need 1 tsp of kewra essence (or vanilla).

6. Prepare 1/4 cup of milk.

7. You need of Few raisins or dates for decorating.

It tastes very much like a mawa peda but with all the goodness of natural sweetener and no refined sugar.

The taste of dates go unnoticed due to the fragrance of mawa.

Mawa also known as khoya or khova are milk solids widely used to make desserts in Indian.

Sweet peda is a Milk based sweet, often called Milk Peda.

Milk Dates Peda instructions

1. Soak the dates in milk for about 5-6 hours. I soaked it overnight (keep in refrigerator else the milk will spoil). If u are in a hurry heat milk and then add the dates, mix until it becomes soft. Grind the above mixture to a smooth paste..

2. Heat butter in a big microwave safe container. Please choose a big container else while making the mixture can spill out of it..

3. Microwave for a minute then add the condensed milk, milk powder, dates paste and mix well..

4. Microwave the mixture for about 6 minutes, stirring every 2 minutes to prevent burning and overflowing of the mixture..

5. Add the essences and let it cool. Depending on how patient you are and how much time you have..

6. Take a small portion, make balls and then flatten it on your palm. This will be easily doable if u have let the mixture cool enough :).

7. Place a raisin on top of it..

8. Still waiting for the next step? Put it in the mouth my dear and enjoy :D.

Its a simple, less time consuming recipe and can enlighten any occasion due to its flavors and its everyones favorite.

I made this using Milkmaid which makes it even more easy and quick to prepare.

The benefits of dates include relief from constipation, intestinal disorders, heart problems, anemia, sexual dysfunction, diarrhea, abdominal cancer, and many other conditions.

Dates are rich in several vitamins, minerals and fiber too.

There are many varieties of peda that can be made by adding various dry fruits, flavorings like saffron or cardamom powder or rose water and some more ingredients like milk powder or coconut etc.