BEETROOT PEDE: GUEST POST BY KANWALJEET CHHABRA

BEETROOT PEDE: GUEST POST BY KANWALJEET CHHABRA


From time to time, I invite friends to contribute recipes to my blog by way of guest posts. Today's Guest Post is from my friend Kanwaljeet Chhabra, a talented young lady who has kindly agreed to contribute her recipe for Beetroot Pede. You can see some of her recipes in her page in Better Butter.

Pedas or Pede  (as they are called in Hindi) are very popular sweets in India for any festival. They are generally made out of milk (which is condensed to make khoya) and sugar. Sometimes, milk powder or ready made condensed milk is used instead to save time.

Kanwaljeet says she has added beetroot to this conventional sweet to make it, "more healthy and colourful."

With Diwali, the festival of lights, coming up soon this is an appropriate and timely contribution. Thank you very much, Kanwaljeet.

Ingredients:

• Small -sized Beetroot,1
• Milk Powder, 2 cups
• Clarified Butter/Ghee, 2 tbsp.
• Milk, 1/2 cup
• Dry Coconut Powder, 1 cup
• Cardamom Powder, 1 tsp
• Chopped Dry Fruits, for garnishing

For Sugar Syrup

• Sugar, 1/4 cup
• Water, 1/4 cup

Method:

First mix milk powder, milk and clarified butter

Mix all ingredients well and make a dough

Keep this dough in the refrigerator for about 15 minutes

Meanwhile grate the beetroot and squeeze all juice from it

Keep this juice and grated beetroot aside

Now for sugar syrup, take water, sugar and cardamom powder and cook until one string consistency is reached. Turn off the gas

Take out milk powder dough from fridge and crush it with hands

In a pan put the grated beetroot and roast it for 2 minutes 

Now add crushed milk powder to this and stir well

Add squeezed beetroot juice and dry coconut powder and mix well

Then add sugar syrup to this

Cook until the mix leaves the sides of the pan

Turn off the gas. Let it cool

Make small size pede with this mix

Garnish it with chopped dry fruit

Beetroot pede are ready.