Mawa recipe | Khoya recipe | How to make mawa recipe with milk
Mawa or Khoya is the most needed ingredient for making any Indian sweet recipes. Homemade Mawa is the key ingredient which gives the ultimate taste to all the sweet recipes. Indian sweet recipes like Gulab jamun, Rabdi, lauki ka halwa, Gujiya can be made with it. And this is the reason for the amazing taste of sweets that we get from halwai.
Mawa or khoya is the dried evaporated milk solids. The traditional way of making mawa or khoya is by slowly simmering milk on low flame till all its moisture evaporates and only milk solids are left. It is highly consumed in northern India especially for making sweets during the festive season. It is also used in Punjab for making popular kofta curries, dry fruit curries like khoya matar curry, Malai kofta, Kaju kofta curry.
Basically, Mawa is used as a thickening agent in all the recipes and forms a base for all sweets or desserts. Depending on the type of sweet, it can be used in either hard form or soft form or even granular form.
Nowadays, mawa is easily available in the market and can be used as per your need. But, the freshness and the quality of store-bought mawa is not better than homemade ones. Preparing mawa is very easy but time-consuming. I would suggest, do other kitchen choruses simultaneously. You just have to be attentive while multi-tasking, do stir the milk and scratch the milk cream from the sides of the pan at regular intervals.
Mawa/Khoya Recipe Card
Mawa/Khoya Recipe
Materials
- 1 litre Full-fat milk 5 cups of full-fat milk
Instructions
For making Mawa/Khoya:
- Place thick bottom wide kadhai or pan on the gas stove and pour full-fat milk in the kadhai.
- Boil the milk on medium flame, till the milk starts to froth or a layer of milk cream or malai appears on the top.
- When the cream layer appears on the top, lower the flame and with the help of spatula stir the milk.
- Simmer the milk continuously on low flame and stir it occasionally to prevent burning from the bottom.
- Make sure to stir the milk at intervals and to scrape the cream layers from the sides of the pan and mix in the milk.
- Scrape off the milk layer from the sides of the pan and add it to the milk in the pan.
- At some particular stage, the consistency of milk will look like Rabri.
- When there's no milk liquid is left in the pan, bubbles will pop at the top and at this point, stir the milk solid continuously.
- Only after few seconds bubbles will settle and now turn off the flame and scrape all the sides of the pan and mix it nicely with the milk solid i.e. mawa.
- Remove the prepared mawa from the pan and add it in a bowl and cover and let it cool down to room temperature.
- Fresh homemade Mawa/Khoya is ready and can be used for making any sweet dish of your taste or even curries.
Step by step instructions:
For making Mawa/Khoya:
- Place thick bottom pan on the gas stove and pour full-fat milk in the kadhai.
- Boil the milk on medium flame, till the milk starts to froth or a layer of milk cream or malai appears on the top.
- When the cream layer appears on the top, lower the flame and with the help of spatula stir the milk.
- Simmer the milk continuously on low flame and stir it occasionally to prevent burning from the bottom.
- Make sure to stir the milk at intervals and to scrape the cream layers from the sides of the pan and mix in the milk.
- Scrape off the milk layer from the sides of the pan and add it to the milk in the pan.
- At some particular stage, the consistency of milk will look like Rabri.
- When there’s no milk liquid is left in the pan, bubbles will pop at the top and at this point, stir the milk solid continuously.
- Only after few seconds bubbles will settle and now turn off the flame and scrape all the sides of the pan and mix it nicely with the milk solid i.e. mawa.
- Remove the prepared mawa from the pan and add it in a bowl and cover and let it cool down to room temperature.
- Fresh homemade Mawa/Khoya is ready and can be used for making any sweet dish of your taste or even curries.
For more sweet or Dessert recipes, please check out my Sweets collection. Along with Rabri recipe, it includes Gulab jamun recipe, Besan ke ladoo recipe, Boora recipe.
Looks delicious…n very easy to make….with simple steps….n no adulteration….😘
Thanks a lot Pooja 🙂