Telangana Pala Kova Milk Fudge Reduced Andhra Sweet Town

Cuisine: Telangana Category: Dessert Prep: 5 min Cook: 60 min Serves: 8 Difficulty: Medium 🌿 Vegetarian

Full-fat milk cooked for hours until it becomes a dense, slightly grainy, intensely flavoured milk fudge — the town of Vijayawada is famous for this sweet.

Ingredients

Method

  1. Bring 2 litres full-fat milk to a boil in a heavy wide pot.
  2. Reduce to medium. Cook uncovered, stirring every 5 to 6 minutes and scraping the sides, for 45 to 55 minutes until the milk has reduced dramatically — to about 1/3 of the original volume.
  3. Add sugar. Stir vigorously as it will initially thin.
  4. Continue cooking on medium, stirring more frequently, for 15 to 18 more minutes until the mixture is very thick and begins to pull away from the sides.
  5. Add ghee and cardamom powder. Stir.
  6. Cook 5 more minutes until the mixture forms a mass.
  7. Pour onto a greased tray. Spread to 1.5 cm thickness. Cool completely.
  8. Cut into squares. The pala kova should be slightly grainy from the caramelised milk solids with a deep dairy flavour.

Recipe from samaiyal.com — Authentic Indian Recipes