Ingredients:
8-9 sweets can be made with this recipe.
- Milk- 1 L
- White vinegar- 4 Tbs
- Water- 4 Tbs
- Sugar - 4 Tbs
- Maowa- 1 cup
- Ghee/ clarifed butter- 1 &1/2 tbs
- Make chaana by following this link.Making Curd/Chaana(ছানা).
- At this time don't hang chaana for long time. Wash chaana under cold water, then squeeze the cheese cloth to remove water from chaana, and then take it out in a mixing bowl.
- Instead of kneading chaana, just mix it with hand to make chaana coarse.
- Then add sugar and 3/4 th cup of maowa (if you have maowa like a solid bar, grate it in a grater to make maowa in a coarse form) and mix them.
- Now heat ghee in a pan. Add chaana mixure in the ghee and stir it. Stir chaana until chaana start to fold from the side of pan like halwa.(less than 10 minutes. Time may vary for different burner)
- Then take it out in the mixing bowl and keep it to cool down so that you can handle it with hand.
- Divide chaana to make your desire size ball.
- Spread the rest of mawa in a plate. Take one chaana ball, make it round, and then round it in the maowa to coat the outside layer with maowa. Do the same process for the rest of chaana ball.
- Serve your kacagulla to make everyone happy.
Nusrat Sadia
(Montreal, Canada)
I think I broke my fast looking at your food pictures. Not fair : ). Loevly to see your site. Makes me miss home. Will share with my Japanese wife who loves to cook Bengali food.
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ReplyDeleteThanks for your nice comment....:)
can you tell me what is maowa? How to make it?
ReplyDeleteHi sarosra,
ReplyDeleteThank you for visiting this blog. Mawa is the solidified form of milk which is used to make various kind of dessert. You can make it at home or buy it(follow this link) from any Bangladeshi or Indian grocery store.
HI,WHAT IS CALLED IN ENGLISH
ReplyDeleteMawa??AND WHERE CAN WE BUY THESE?
HOW LONG WE CAN STORE IT? AND WHATS THE procedure TO STORE IT?
THANKS
You can find it any Indian grocery store named maowa/khoya. You can deep fridge it.You will find the date on the packet.
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THANKS A LOT
ReplyDeleteAussie April 09, 2014
ReplyDeleteI don't know where I can buy Mawa, in Sydney. it's a long procedure to make it. I would love to make this receipe.
Mawa is nothing but khoa kheer.
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