Dates & Paneer Peda | No White Sugar | Fudge Recipe
Dates & paneer peda, a milk sweet made with crumbled paneer, sweetened with dates paste and flavored with cardamom and cloves. A quick and easy fudge recipe with no white sugar
Course Dessert
Cuisine Indian
Keyword Dessert with dates, How to make sweet peda, Milk powder peda, No white sugar sweet, Paneer dessert, Peda recipe, Peda without condensed milk, Pedha recipe
Prep Time 5 minutesminutes
Cook Time 20 minutesminutes
Total Time 25 minutesminutes
Servings 8servings
Calories 130kcal
Ingredients
100gramscrumbled paneer
115gramsdates pasteor use 10-12 soft variety of dates
2tablespoonmilk powder
4tablespoonfull fat milk
6podscardamomonly seeds
3cloves
5teaspoonghee
2tablespoonpistachio silvers for garnish
Instructions
Measure and keep all ingredients ready. Pound cardamom and cloves together in a mortar pestle.
I have used store bought frozen paneer in this recipe. Remove the required paneer and keep it dunked in hot water for 5 minutes. Drain completely and mash it with a fork.
In a heavy bottom pan, add a teaspoon of ghee. Add the crumbled paneer to this and saute for a minute. Keep the flame simmer.
To this now add the dates paste. My date paste was in the refrigerator so it sort look like a lump, but when added to the hot paneer, it immediately loosened and mixed well with the paneer.
To the paneer date mixture add powdered cardamom and clove powder. Keep turning the mixture and make sure the flame is in simmer to avoid burning.
After 2-3 minutes of adding dates paste, add milk powder and milk to the pan. Stir well
The liquid will be absorbed almost immediately and the paste will start coming together. Now add 1 teaspoon of ghee to this and keep stirring.
Add the remaining 3 teaspoon of ghee and regular intervals until the mixture comes together without sticking to the pan and follows your ladle. This will take just 10 minutes.
Take it off the heat, remove the fudge mixture to a flat plate and let it come down to touchable warm.
Use a melon baller and divide the fudge mixture into 16 portions and arrange it on a parchment laid pan.
Flatten the portions using a greased spoon and garnish it with silvered pistachios. The fudge will still be delicate to touch. At this stage refrigerate for 10 minutes, it will harden.
Enjoy the peda as post meal dessert or a quick pick me up energy ball. This makes a good snack in the kids lunch dabba or post play snack for kids.
Storing Instructions
Though the peda will stay good on the counter for a day or two, I still prefer to refrigerate the peda as it contains milk powder and paneer and the climate here is too hot to trust and leave it outside.
The peda doesn't become like a rock while in the fridge. We are enjoying it for the past 2 days and it retains the soft, fudgy texture.