How to Make Khoya – खोया / मावा: Also known as mawa, is a key ingredient in many Indian sweets such as Gajar Ka Halwa, Khoya Burfi, and many more. In India, we usually buy it from sweet shops, but you can easily make it at home. Homemade mawa is fresh and hygienic, and fresh mawa gives your sweets a richer and more delicious taste.

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How To Make Khoya?

Recipe by Vipasha

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Course: How to?, Sweets, Veg FoodCuisine: Indian

Servings

1.5

cup

Prep time

minutes

Cooking time

hour

minutes

Calories

960

kcal

Total time

hour

minutes

This Khoya or Mawa is made by milk and can use to make different king of Indian Sweets (मिठाई).

Ingredients

Milk (दूध) – 1.5 liter
Cardamom (छोटी इलायची) – 3-4

Directions

Crush cardamom (छोटी इलायची) with the help of mortar pestle. Remove the skin and make fine powder of seeds.
Take heavy base non-stick deep pan add milk (दूध) with cardamom (छोटी इलायची) powder and bring it to boil.
Now simmer the heat and cook for 5 minutes. Keep stirring.
After 5 minute increase the flame and cook for more 5 minutes. Keep stirring.
Repeat step 2 and 3 until milk reduce to half.
Now simmer and cook until khoya don’t get desire thickness. Must keep stirring, otherwise it’s stuck in the base.
Now your khoya or mawa is ready, use it to make any Indian sweet.

Notes

To make sweeten khoya add 1 tin of condensed milk after milk boiled.
You can use 1 tbsp. cardamom (छोटी इलायची) powder instead of cardamom (छोटी इलायची). For this ignore step 1. But fresh cursed cardamom (छोटी इलायची) gave more rich taste fragrance.

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