Homemade khova recipe, a base for many rich Indian sweets
Ingredients
1 Cup whole milk/full cream milk
2 Cups milk powder
2 Tbsp ghee
½ Cup cream
Method
Add ghee to a thick bottomed pan and turn on low heat
Next pour in milk with the ghee
Pour cream and mix well
Keep the milk powder ready in a plate and make sure there are no lumps
Add the milk powder into the milk-cream-ghee mixture
Stir till there are no lumps or dry parts of milk powder visible in the mixture
Keep stirring on low flame till it starts to thicken
Do not take eyes off pan and keep stirring the mixture
Bubbles start to appear and thickens further
The mixture starts to leave the sides of the pan
As it thickens further, keep stirring
It gathers into one big lump and comes off the pan easily. For the measures mentioned here, it took 50-55 minutes on low flame, in thick bottomed pan with medium burner size
Turn off heat, let it cool, wrap in cling wrap. Use as required. Keep it refrigerated.
Notes
Always use thick bottomed pan for sweets
Use full cream milk for making khova
Cream adds extra richness and khova thickens quicker
Recipe by Food Of Interest at https://foodofinterest.com/homemade-khova/