Khajoor Coconut Peda (Sugar-Free) — an effortless mithai that comes together in under 30 minutes that’s aromatic with delicate flavors of rose and cardamom! Made with simple ingredients and roasted milk powder for some richness, these are truly the easiest way to celebrate during the festive season!
WATCH HOW TO MAKE SUGAR-FREE KHAJOOR DATES COCONUT PEDA:
We’ll soak our dates in warm milk and blend into a paste which will be all the sweetness for the peda.
Then heat some ghee and milk powder on medium heat and roast until you get this gorgeous golden brown color. At this stage add milk in parts and stir until you achieve this wet dough or wet mawa consistency. Adding milk powder will give depth and richness like mawa to the pedas.
Now add in your shredded coconut, the dates paste we made, some ghee, cardamom powder, and rose water. Let this cook for a bit until it comes together and then let sit to cool.
Now we can roll them into these cute round pedas, roll them in coconut or pistachios, and garnish with gold sprinkles.
These make for such an effortless yet stunning mithai — you have to try these today!
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Khajoor Coconut Peda (Sugar-Free) — an effortless mithai that comes together in under 30 minutes that’s aromatic with delicate flavors of rose and cardamom! Made with simple ingredients and roasted milk powder for some richness, these are truly the easiest way to celebrate during the festive season!
- 12 dates
- ½ cup hot milk
- 2 tbsp ghee
- ¾ cup shredded coconut
- 1 cup full fat whole milk powder , unsweetened
- ½ cup milk , or as needed
- ½ tsp cardamom powder
- ½ tsp rose water
- desiccated coconut , for rolling
- pistachio powder , for rolling
- golden sprinkles , for garnish
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Soak dates with hot milk for 15 minutes and blend it into a smooth, but thick paste. We don't want a runny paste. If you need more milk, add 1 tbsp at a time.
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In a heavy-bottomed pan add 1 tbsp ghee (the remaining ghee will be used later) with milk powder and roast for 10 minutes on low to medium flame until the color changes to almond-skin color.
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Then add milk slowly in parts so that lumps don't form and cook for 3-5 minutes until it comes together into a wet dough consistency. The milk will give it a wet mawa texture. Don't make it too dry as we will be adding coconut to it.
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Mix in the shredded coconut, dates paste, remaining 1 tbsp ghee, cardamom powder, and rose water. Cook on medium flame for 5-7 minutes until it comes together into a soft dough.
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Transfer it to a plate and let it cool down for 10 minutes.
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Divide the dough into equal parts (I made 16 pedas from them) and shape them into small round pedas or your desired shape.
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Roll the pedas into desiccated coconut or pistachio powder, garnish with golden sprinkles and enjoy!
- Make sure that you use full fat whole milk powder, and not 2% or fat-free milk powder.
- I used 12 dates for the sweetness that I prefer. If you want a little bit on the sweeter side then add 2 more dates.
- This will stay good for up to 7 days in the fridge.
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Hi
I tried the recipe. I just thought I whole cup of milk was a bit too much for the mixture to come together.
I used half and it came together in a few minutes. Is the whole cup needed ? Then how long do you cook the liquid ?
It’s going to take longer than 5 mins to solidify.
Thanks so much
You’ll need entire milk as we will be adding coconut later. Just cook it until it reaches a wet dough consistency, the roasting will add a nice mawa like flavor to it.
Hi Nidhi!
Love your recipe! But had a question though – What if I use Instant skim milk powder because thats the one that is available right now with me. Could you please suggest? Thanks!
skim milk powder will not work, the pedas will become chewy. All Indian grocery stores carry whole milk powder or mawa powder – you should use that for this recipe.
Thank you so much for your kind words and love!!🙏
Skim milk powder will not work it will becomes stretchy and chewy.
Try Indian store they have it for sure!!
Thanks Nidhi! sure. will try that
Can i use mawa instead of milk powder?
Yes, you can use mawa easily.
I think half cup milk was a bit more. After adding all the ingredients my mixture looks a cake batter and not dough consistency. Seems like i have to cook more😔
No it can’t be possible, each and every thing is measured and tested. I hope you are using whole milk powder.
So many ppl have made this recipe it comes out perfect. Milk dries as soon as you add it !!
Desicated coconut or frozen fresh coconut you used?
Its desiccated coconut
Can you provide link of unsweetened milk powder you used?
Here in US, Indian grocery stores carry it as mawa powder which is unsweetened