Mom had recently bought paneer. So I decided to make Paneer Peda that too with Kesar. Kesar is nothing but saffron. Paneer is cottage cheese. These Paneer Pedas are pillowy soft yellowish balls which will just melt in your mouth. These pedas are sugar free, nutritiuos, tastes delicious and are great desserts to make for offering to god as prasad Or make for guests. Most important these Paneer Pedas are easy to make even kids can make under guidance of mother.
Usually sugar is used however I have used jaggery for health factor! Pedas are small sweet balls which are very popular in India. Many forma and types of pedas are made out here. Few examples are kesar peda, malai peda, milk peda, mava peda etc….
I don’t like anything artificial like food color. So for slight yellow color for the pedas. I have used saffron infused in hot milk along with 1 t/s turmeric for coloring. You could use color if you wish to.
Honestly I am so tired today I can’t even type. As feeling sleepy now. But don’t you worry will post this content and then only go off to sleep :)…. Because I love to write and cook that’s why 😉
Let’s make kesari paneer peda recipe stepwise:
1. Take heavy bottomed sauce pan. Combine milk, grated sugar or jaggery, grated paneer, freshly pounded cardamom with skin.
2. Keep on low heat and keep stirring the mixture. Infuse saffron in hot milk. Add this mixture to the boiling milk.
3. It’s time to add milk powder. Combine all ensure the milk powder is incorporated well. Ensure you keep stirring the mixture. After some time the batter will start thickening. It will start leaving the edges of the pan. Switch off the gas.
4. Allow to cool down. Now add ghee and start shaping into balls.
5. Flatten these balls slightly with your palms. Top with cashew nuts and raisins. Your Paneer Peda is ready.
Paneer Peda Recipe below:
- 100 gms fresh paneer grated (cottage cheese)
- 75 gms milk powder
- 2 cups milk (300 ml milk)
- ½ cup grated jaggery (75 gms)
- 2 tbsp ghee (clarified butter)
- 3 green cardamom freshly pounded
- Few cashew nuts and raisins
- Take heavy bottomed sauce pan. Combine milk, grated jaggery, grated paneer, freshly pounded cardamom with skin.
- Keep on low heat and keep stirring the mixture. Infuse saffron in hot milk. Add this mixture to the boiling milk.
- It's time to add milk powder. Combine all ensure the milk powder is incorporated well. Ensure you keep stirring the mixture. After some time the batter will start thickening. It will start leaving the edges of the pan. Switch off the gas.
- Allow to cool down. Now add ghee and start shaping into balls.
- Flatten these balls slightly with your palms. Top with cashew nuts and raisins.
- Your Paneer Peda is ready.
2. Top with roasted nuts.
3. Also you could roll these pedas on icing sugar Or desiccated coconut.
Binny says
Hi Maria, I tried this recipe with just 4 tbsp milk with proportionate other ingredients and it made an awesome dish. But then I twice tried making it with the actual quantities as given, but both the times the milk curdled. I couldn’t give this surprise on this Valentine’s Day 🙁 ….. Is my home made paneer (the milk was stale and I made paneer out of it) the culprit?? But I used the same paneer for the smaller quantity too!!!
maria says
Binny ideally the recipe works for smaller quantity should work even for larger quantities. Something is going wrong somewhere also sometime using Jaggery tends to curdle milk so try adding sugar instead. Hope this helps you… I am sorry to know the milk curdled during valentines day do try again and lemme know this time try with sugar.
anita says
as per my knowledge if you add jaggery in milk, it curdles. even colour of the mixture will change. are you sure about using jaggery and not sugar?
maria says
Anita I didn’t get any problem using jaggery you could mix jaggery in hot water and strain it this way the impurities would be discarded. Also if you not comfortable using jaggery go ahead and use sugar in that case. Hope this helps you 🙂