Recepie of Mathura Peda

Some devotees asked me if I knew how to make Mathura peda, also called as Dharwad peda, to offer for their Radha Vrindavanchandra deities. So I experimented with some ingredients and came up with 2 methods, not very different from each other. Both tasted good, while i felt the second method came close to the taste of Mathura peda, my daughter went with the first method.

In the first method i used:
1 1/4 cup of Mava or whole milk powder
4 tablespoons of heavy cream
elaichi/cardamom powder- 1 teaspoon
brown sugar- 1/2 cup
granulated sugar and coconut powder for dusting/rolling.

Thoroughly mix the heavy cream and one cup of mava, cook on a medium flame, in a thick bottomed pan. Add the brown sugar and stir well to mix. Continue stirring and scraping till the mixture becomes a thick paste. Add the remaining quarter cup of mava and mix well, till the mixture leaves the sides of the pan. Add the cardamom powder. When cool shape into small pedas. Roll in coconut powder and powdered sugar.

The second method: This tasted more like the peda.
2 heaped tablespoons of chenna.
3/4 cup of mava/milk powder
1/2 cup of brown sugar
3 tablespoons of heavy cream
1 teaspoon of elaichi freshly powdered.

Incorporate the chenna into the above given method and follow all the steps adding the remaining ingredients in the same manner as above till the mixture pulls away from the sides of  the pan. Shape into pedas when cool, roll it in superfine granulated sugar and coconut powder.