Indian Vegan Recipes
Kesar Peda – Saffron Infused Mithai Sweet for Sankranti. Vegan Glutenfree Recipe
Kesar Peda is fudge type cookie made with milk solids. This recipe is dairy-free and uses almonds for this Saffron…
- Ready 30 minutes
- Serves 6
- Prep 10 minutes
- Cook 20 minutes
Pedas are a very sugary milk fudge kind of dessert. so the vegan version is also sweet and fudgy. Adjust sweet in the recipe to preference.
Believe you me. you want to make these pedas to celebrate Lohri and Sankranti.
Next in line maybe Kalakand!
Other Sankranti/Lohri recipes
Coconut Rava Laddoo – Sweet balls of coconut flakes and semolina.
This Eggplant and potato stir fry with chickpea flour, spices and nuts. Ringad Batak nu shaak
This puffed grain and jaggery snack. A laddoo ball or bars with puffed grains, sesame seeds, nuts kept together with Jaggery(unrefined sugar) syrup is a favorite sweet and snack in several parts of India. One of the versions has only sesame seeds and jaggery syrup like a chewy sesame brittle. This Tilgud (sesame jaggery) is distributed among friends and family with the saying “Tilgul ghya, god god bola” that means “Take a tilgul and talk sweet as it”. The under-lying thought in the exchange of tilguds is to forget the past ill-feelings and hostilities and resolve to speak sweetly and remain friends.
Kanda Bhaji – Onion Fritters. or make theseBaked broocoli fritters.
Date fig Burfi – Date fig nut bars
Upma- Savory Cream of wheat or rice cooked with peas, nuts and veggies
Besan Quinoa Laddoo – Sweet Chickpea flour balls with cashews and raisins.
Happy Sankranti / Lohri / Pongal to all who are celebrating!
This Peda is being shared at Allergy Free Wednesdays and Ricki’s wellness weekend.
Recipe
Kesar Peda - Saffron Infused Almond Cookie
Kesar Peda is fudge type cookie made with milk solids. This recipe is dairy-free and uses almonds for this Saffron infused Almond cookie. Vegan Gluten-free Recipe. Easily doubled.
- Serves 6
- Prep 10 minutes
- Cook 20 minutes
- Total 30 minutes
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup almond flour (Both blanched as well as natural flour work.)
- 1.5 Tbsp coconut flour
- 3 Tbsp finely ground raw sugar (or other fine vegan sugar)
- a generous pinch of salt
- 1/4 tsp cardamon powder
- 8 saffron strands
- 1 tsp almond milk (or other non dairy milk)
- 1.5 Tbsp maple syrup (or any other sweet syrup with similar consistency like agave, jaggery syrup. sugar syrup)
Instructions
- 1
Heat the almond milk. Mix the saffron strands in it and let sit for 5 minutes.
- 2
In a bowl, mix the almond flour, coconut flour, sugar, salt and cardamom powder.
- 3
Add the saffron almond milk and maple syrup (or jaggery/sugar/date syrup) and mix well to make a soft dough. If the mixture is not a soft sticky mix, add in 1 teaspoons or more maple syrup. Make flat discs of the dough and serve as is, or bake at 300 degrees F / 150ºc for 9 minutes. (the pedas will expand a bit while baking). Top with some chopped pistachios or almond slivers and press in
- 4
Cool completely before serving or storing. Store in the refrigerator in airtight container for upto a week. the baked pedas are are soft Fudgy cookies. They taste best chilled.
Notes
You can make your own coconut flour with coconut flakes like here. To grind the almonds into as fine as possible, add a Tablespoon of oats and a Tablespoon of starch(corn or arrowroot) in the blender and blend. Blanched almond flour works best Nutritional values based on one serving
Nutrition
- Calories98 kcal
- Carbohydrates12 g
- Protein2 g
- Fat5 g
- Saturated Fat1 g
- Sodium6 mg
- Potassium15 mg
- Fiber2 g
- Sugar9 g
- Vitamin A1 IU
- Vitamin C1 mg
- Calcium27 mg
- Iron1 mg
