• Switch on the gas stove to low flame.
• In a thick bottomed pan, add 1 tbsp of desi ghee out of total 2 tbsp (as mentioned in ingredients).
• Pour Dulce de lache. You can use condensed milk too.
• Then add milk powder and mix properly so that there are no lumps.
• The mixture will start thickening with the time. But keep stirring.
• After sometime, the mixture will be so thick and it will start leaving the sides of the pan.
• Add cardamom essence or powder and mix.
• At this stage, add another tbsp of desi ghee and mix it.
• Switch off the flame and flatten the mixture so that it gets cool early.
• After about the 10 minutes, the mixture will be cool enough to touch it with the naked hands.
• Now start shaping the pedas.

FOR ROUND SHAPE...

• Grease your hands with the ghee.
• Scoop out the mixture dough and rotate it between your palm to give it a round shape.
• Tuck a Pistachio in the middle of round peda.
• Make more round pedas.

FOR DIYA SHAPE (because we are making it as Diwali sweet)

• Scoop out the mixture dough and rotate it between your palm to give it a round shape.
• Make a hole in the middle with your finger tip.
• Now start rotating the ball in a way so that a wall is created around the hole.
• Then pinch it with your finger tips to give it a diya shape.
• Now for making the baati (lamp) for diya, just prick a dough, roll it between the palms.
• Toss it in the powdered sugar and fix between the diya.
• Your Round shaped pedas and Diya shaped pedas are ready.