Kesar Penda (केसर पेंडा )

Penda is sweet which is made from milk mawa. Mainly there are two type of it white penda and kesar penda which has saffron init. Many put orange color with saffron.  When you don't get mawa and you want to make this yummy sweet, use ricotta cheese as substitute for mawa.

Ingredients:-
(1). 15 oz organic ricotta cheese
(2). pinch of saffron
(3). 1 teaspoon cardamom powder
(4). 2 teaspoon of charoli
(5). 1/4 cup chopped almond
(6). 1/4 cup chopped pistachio
(7). 2 cup organic sugar or to taste

Mawa Recipe:-
Take nonstick pan and coat it with unsalted butter. Start the stove on medium flame and add ricotta cheese in it. Stir ricotta cheese occasionally. Cook ricotta cheese until all water from cheese evaporates. It will take roughly about 10-15 minutes. At this point your mawa is ready.

Penda Recipe:-
Now to make Penda add sugar and saffron in it and mix it well. Cook for another  5 minutes, so that water from sugar also goes away. Switch of the stove. Add cardamom powder and mix it well.

Now make small balls and shape it in any shape you like. Decor each penda with 3 to 4 pieces of charoli, 3-4 piece of almond and 3-4 piece of pistachio.

Enjoy.

Kesar Penda

Kesar Penda

Tips:-
You can use mawa to make gulab jamun, carrot halwa, launki(bottle gaurd) halwa or barfi .