Dry Fruits Kova Bullets

If one starts to list down the Indian sweets made of milk, am sure they’ll sit typing the list for hours. So many varieties of desserts are made using dairy products in India. All these milk sweets and desserts, why even many Indian curries which are rich and creamy are made by adding this milk product – Kova/Mawa – formed by condensing milk to certain consistency depending on the recipe to be made. Today we will see how to make this sweet bullets from kova :-)

Ingredients

Milk -  1 liter

Sugar - 100 gms

Elachi Powder - a big pinch

Grated Dry fruits - 1/4 cup

Ghee - 3 tsp

Procedure

Take the 1 liter milk in a heavy bottomed wide mouthed vessel or kadai. In Medium-High heat bring it to boil (Takes 10 minutes) [Stay near the stove and be watchful if you work with medium-high heat. If you have a non-stick vessel you can use since milk will scorch in later stages of cooking.]

Once the milk boils, reduce flame to Medium-Low. Scrap the sides of the vessel and stir the content from time to time.

In next 20 minutes, the milk reduces to half. Remember to stir and scrap the dried milk from time to time.

In next 15-20 minutes, the milk again halves changing into a pale yellow color. Take extra care from this stage since the milk tends to burn/scorch very fast if you’re careless watching it. So stir and scrap the milk solids very frequently. In this stage most of the water vaporizes from the milk turning it into a thick consistency with a granular texture. Here we are going to add sugar and cardamom powder in this stage and mix well.

In next 10 minutes, the milk starts to solidify. Turn flame to Low since the solidifying milk can quickly get burnt if overlooked. Do not forget about stirring frequently.

In next 10 minutes the color of the milk changes to creamy yellow and thickens more.

In next 5-10 minutes, almost all of the water content evaporates from the milk and solidifies the milk completely. Now, when you stir, the content stir together firmly into a single mass. Switch off the stove. 

Now grease plate with ghee and transfer this kova. Allow to cool till you can handle the mixture with your hand. 

Shape the kova into bullets and dip it in grated  dry fruits.

Dry Fruit Kova Bullets are ready to eat.

 

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