Krishna Janmashtmi is the celebration to mark the birth of Lord Krishna and is enjoyed all over India especially in Uttar Pradesh and Maharashtra. Mewa paag is making for this puja for lord Krishna.
Ingredients of MEWA PAAG
- Powdered Sugar- 2.75 cups
- Mawa- 2.25 cups
- Lotus Seeds- 1.5 cups
- Muskmelon seeds- Less than 1 cup
- Dry Coconuts- 1.5 cup
- Almonds- ½ cup
- Edible gum- ¼ cup
- Ghee- ½ cup
How to Make MEWA PAAG
- Preheat the pan and roast the muskmelon seeds until they expand or their colour changes. Take the roasted seeds in the plate.
- Cook and stir the grated coconut until its colour changes. After the 15 minutes, roasted coconut is ready and take it out on a plate.
- Preheat the ghee in the pan. If you will add the edible gum in moderately or extremely heated oil then the edible gum will remain raw. Roast it in the low heated oil.
- Take out the edible gum in the plate once its colour changes and it expanded.
- Roast the almonds in the ghee until they are browned.
- Roast the lotus seeds in the ghee until they are golden brown. All the dry fruits are fried.
- Break the dry fruits finely in the mortar and prepare them.
- Preheat the pan and roast the mawa in it until its colour slightly changes. add the sugar powder and add the dry fruits in the mixture once it is properly mixed.
- Take it out in the plate and apply the ghee on the bottom of the plate. The mixture is set after the 15-20 minutes, mark the cutting area on the mixture.
- The dry fruit paag is set after the 40 minutes. Heat the bottom of the paag so that paag can be removed easily.
- Take the pieces out of the paag on another plate.
- The mixed dry fruit paag is ready to serve.
