How to make khoya at home: Pure and healthy way to sweeten festive season
Make this festive season sweeter and healthier with fresh homemade khoya prepared from pure milk. Free from preservatives and rich in flavor, it forms the base of traditional Indian sweets like barfi, peda, and gulab jamun. Celebrate the season with purity, taste, and the joy of cooking authentic festive treats at home.
New Delhi: As the festive season approaches, people start buying sweets from the market to gift them to dear ones or offer them to gods during puja rituals and festivities. This is the time of year when sweets are prepared in quantities more than usual and consumed by many people, making it difficult for sellers or producers to maintain quality and sometimes delivering adulterated or fake items.
Khoya and paneer are the top items used during the festive season in each Indian kitchen and are most caught to adulteration or poor quality. Khoya is the heart of Indian sweets, from Gulab Jamun to peda or halwa; everything offered to gods or guests is prepared using Khoya. Store-bought or adulterated products contain chemicals and can be risky for health.
Making fresh khoya at home ensures purity, right products, freshness and authentic creamy taste that can enhance the flavours of your festive sweets.
How to make Khoya at home
- 1 litre of full-fat cow or buffalo milk
- A heavy-bottomed pan or kadhai
- A wooden spatula for stirring
Steps to prepare at home:
- Pour milk in a pan and let it boil over medium heat for 5 minutes
- Once the milk is boiled, lower the flame and stir well to avoid lumps.
- Once it cools, scrape off the malai from sides and put it back in for extra creaminess
- Again put milk on boiling and boil until it redcues to one-fourth of its original quantity
- Once the milk starts leaving the sides of the pan and turns solid, turn off the gas.
- Your Khoya is ready to be used for delicious mithais.
- Consume Khoya within 4 days for freshness or store in freezer for long-shelf life.
Tips for perfect khoya
- Use full-cream buffalo milk for creaminess.
- Cook on a slow flame to enhance the flavour and thickness of khoya.
- Add a few drops of ghee in the end for aroma and shine.
Homemade khoya is rich in calcium, protein, healthy and prepared hygienically with most care for correct use and contains natural fats. Prepare yourself a fresh batch of hoya this festive season and go health-friendly as well as economical on your pocket with added flavours and nutrition.