Instant Mawa Recipe is one of the easiest to make and can be used for any kind of sweets which call for mawa in the recipe.
Mawa is one of the ingredients that is extensively used in Indian cooking. Usually mawa is made by reducing milk for a very long time. The liquid evaporates leaving the milk solids which is slightly brownish in colour because of the caramelization. The mawa or khova as we call in South is then added in lots of sweets. They are also mixed with sugar to make paalkhova.
I also use mawa in lots of my cakes and desserts. So for me mawa is an integral part of the kitchen. But to make mawa by the traditional method, it takes two to three hours of continuous stirring of milk. You need a lot of patience and if using a stove, you waste quite a lot of gas just to reduce one litre of milk.
To overcome this huge disadvantage, I use this instant mawa recipe. With just two ingredients and two minutes of your time, mawa gets ready. This was a recipe I learnt during my initial days of blogging from one of my blogger friends Suma.
And now I don’t go to the traditional method at all. I know that the traditional method is more flavourful, but the instant version is also almost good. So if you haven’t yet tried it, give it a try. You woill never go back.
Which Milk Powder to use For Instant Mawa
Whenever I mention milk powder, most of my readers get concerned about what I mean by milk powder. So to clear all the confusion, I use Nestle Everyday Dairy Whitener in all my recipes that call for milk powder.
I don’t know if calling this milk powder is correct or not, I have grown up calling this milk powder, so I chose to mention it the same way in the blog too.
Never use skimmed milk powder to make Mawa. Skimmed milk powder may bring down the calorie, but it has a weird flavour, which won’t go well with any of the dishes you make with the mawa. So it is better not to use.
As for cream, I use Amul low fat cream or Fresh cream as we call in India. If you live somewhere where you can’t access Amul brand, go for any low fat cream with 25% fat content. If unable to source cream, use full fat milk instead.
I also made a short video showing the process. Please check my Instagram to watch the video.
Here are some of the dishes which use mawa:
Instant Mawa Recipe
Materials
- 150 g Milk Powder
- 200 ml Amul Fresh Cream
Instructions
- In a microwave safe bowl, mix together the milk powder and Amul fresh cream.
- Cook in microwave high for 1 minute.
- Remove the bowl and mix well.
- Again cook in MW high for one minute.
- Bring the bowl out and stir well.
- If you want softer mawa, the cooking is done only for 2 minutes.
- But if you want it to be crumbly, cook it for another 30 seconds on MW high.
- Allow it to cool completely.
- Now homemade instant mawa is ready to be used in sweets and bakes.
Wow!!! That’s a super quick mawa and an awesome list to make use of it!
Amul fresh cream is it thick. In uk we get single cream and double cream so single cream is lighter and double cream is thicker. What cream shall i use for making mawa.
Use single cream. It would be similar to Amul fresh cream.
Just tried the Mawa. Came out very nice . Do you have a recipe for making peda from this Mawa?
Thank you. I have some peda recipes. WIll get you the link – https://gayathriscookspot.com/?s=mawa+peda