Instant Rose Peda

A super easy recipe to make rose peda. These are made with a handful of ingredients and comes together in 15 minutes.

Plus, these are shaped to make them super chic!

Festivals and occasions call for delicious sweet recipes. Making them at home is always on top of my mind.

Pedas are always loved by everyone and they are made in single serve size making them great for get togethers or pujas.

This recipe is especially close to my heart as it is the FIRST recipe on my new blog page. After deliberating over how to migrate 600+ recipes from blogspot to my own space, I finally took the leap of faith and here we are!

A brand new blog location with all my tried, tested and loved recipes. If you have following my older space, do have a look around here and shoot me an email or comment with how you think this new space is.

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What is Rose Peda?

Coming back to the recipe, this peda is super easy and quick to make.

Infusing milk powder and condensed milk with rose makes these pedas bright colored and super flavorful.

Rose has been my favorite flavor since childhood. Ice creams, shakes, falooda and sweets. The flavors of rose along with the pink color is my favorite.

I started using rose in peda and other sweets and have been a fan since. Not just me, my family and my friends have loved it. They get the first taste of the recipes and I always love their honest feedback!

This Rose Peda Recipe

• is super easy to make with only a handful of ingredients
• makes super fudgy pedas with a signature top
• are shaped with a rose shaped mooncake mold to make them chic!
• comes together in 15 minutes

Full of rose flavor and taste, these pedas are super soft and delicious. Plus, shaped using the mooncake mold, these are pretty chic.

Perfect to enjoy as sweets, serve at an event or give as hostess gift.

I have made these rose pedas several times and they have been amazing. I would strongly urge you to try these to believe!

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Ingredients

Milk Powder: An important ingredient in this recipe, I have used full fat milk powder or mawa powder in the recipe.

Mawa powder is easily available Indian stores or even from Amazon. It is shelf stable and a great ingredient to have at hand for quick sweet recipes. It does not have any flavoring so it is easy to use it with different flavors in sweets and other recipes.

These rose pedas can be made with milk too. It is a super long process and requires a lot of time. Using milk powder is an easy and effective way of making these pedas.

Condensed Milk: I like to use Sweetened condensed milk to speed up the process of making pedas.

Sugar can be used in the recipe too, but condensed milk shortens the cooking process and makes the rose peda quickly.

Rose Syrup: Rose pedas need rose flavoring for sure. Store bought rose syrup is perfect for the recipe.

Indian stores sell these syrup in bottles and I always have one in my pantry. It is great in so many recipes including this Rose Thandai and Falooda. It makes a great drink with just milk too.

Cardamom Powder: In order to add another layer of flavor and some texture I have added cardamom powder to the pedas.

Perfect for all kinds of pedas, I always use cardamom powder in my peda and other sweets. Nutmeg powder is a great addition too.

Ghee: Ghee is a required ingredient in the recipe. I like to add ghee in two parts, first to cook the mawa powder and condensed milk and the rest to add gloss towards the end of the recipe.

Adding nuts, dried rose petals or some rose extract works well too.

In order to make these rose shaped I have used this mooncake press. It works like a charm with the right consistency of mix.

Step by Step Instructions to make Rose Pedas

1- In a pan add ghee and heat it.

2- Add the milk powder to it.

3- Add in sweetened condensed milk and stir. Let the mix cook till it thickens. Keep stirring intermittently so it does not stick.

4- Once the mixture starts to thicken, add the rose syrup and mix.

5- The mixture will thicken further on cooking.

6- Add the cardamom powder and remaining ghee. Mix well.

7- Once the mix begins to leave the sides of the pan, turn down the flame.

8- Keep turning the mix to cool it down quickly.

9- Once the mix cools down completely, divide it into equal sized balls.

10- Press one ball into a mooncake press and make the peda on a cookie mat.

11- Make the pedas till all the mix is used up.

12- Let the pedas remain uncovered for 10 minutes so they dry enough and have the signature dry top.

13- Transfer to an airtight container or enjoy straight from the cookie sheet!

Tips and Notes

• Make sure the milk powder is not very old. Old mawa powder tends to make the pedas stale.
• Rose syrup is easily available in Indian stores.
• If you cannot find rose syrup, add some pink color and rose water to replicate the flavors.
• Turn down the heat once the mix thickens. Cooking it further will yield chewy pedas.