Nivedita's Kitchen: Milk Pedha and Choco Pedha

Tried and tasted by Nivedita

Hi All,

Dharwad (my home town) which is in Karnataka, is famous for Pedhas. Dharwad Thakhur pedhas are world famous and no pedha can beat the taste. I have been brought up with pedhas. And I always loved Thakhur pedhas. I will try to give the link about that pedha, as the recipe for that pedha is a secret and is not revealed any where.(if any of you know the recipe, please let me know!)

When I was a kid, I loved pedhas a lot. My grandfather always used to bring a piece of pedha for me. I used to keep it for a long time in my hand and I used to eat it the way one eats ice cream. I was scared that it will finish soon!

Now coming to my recipe over here, I love these white pedhas or doodh pedhas. I would have never dared to make these pedhas at home till I really wanted to try something new(for me) for Jagruti's event. I browsed many blogs and sites to get the recipe. And I was surprised to know that the recipe is so simple. So I thought of trying two pedhas at a time(no patience to wait for next day)

When I browsed for pedha, I got many links. I was searching for quick recipe, and came through THIS one. I was happy with the procedure and when I scrolled down to check the recipe, even this was inspired by Usha of Veg Inspirations and even she followed some other blog with little variation!!

Now I am here with my recipe with not much modification :

First is for Milk Pedha :( I used cup for measurement)

Sweetened condensed Milk - 1 cup

Milk powder - 3/4 cup

Cardamom powder - 1 tsp

Ghee - 1 tbsp

Add the sweetened condensed milk and the milk powder in a deep and big M/W safe dish. Mix well. Add cardamom powder and mix well.

Keep the dish in microwave on HIGH for a minute.

Remove, mix well and repeat the step till done.

The mix will be a soft dough.

Add ghee and mix well.

Remove in a plate. Allow it to cool for some time.

Moist your hand with milk to make pedhas.

You can store it in a fridge for a week.

I could prepare around 15 pedhas out of this.

THANKS EVERYONE, WHO HAS SHARED THIS RECIPE IN THEIR BLOGS. I followed Usha's recipe.

Recipe for Chocolate Pedhas :

I got the recipe from HERE. This is also a quick but tasty pedhas.

My daughter loved this chocolate pedhas so much that she kept all for her self.

I followed the exact recipe.

Sweetened condensed milk - 1 1/2 cup

Curd/ thick yogurt - half cup

Milk - half cup

Coco powder - half cup

Ghee - 2 to 3 tablespoons

Warm the milk in microwave in Microwave safe dish.

Mix the yogurt and coco powder and whisk it till no lumps.

Add this coco milk to the condensed milk and mix well.

Microwave on HIGH for 3 minutes. Open and mix well. Repeat the step till you get the thick paste like above in the photo. Add the ghee and mix well. Microwave on HIGH for 30 seconds.

Keep it for 15 to 20 minutes.

Make pedhas of desired shapes.
Sending these pedhas to two events :

Jagruti (of Joy of Cooking)

Announcing an Event ~ Celebrate Sweets-Pedha