palkova recipe / palkova sweet recipe

Palkova Recipe / Kova Sweets Recipes

 

Kova is a delicious, creamy and rich dessert that is prepared with milk and sugar. It is so yummy 😋 that it just melts in your mouth. This is also popularly known as palkova. In my grandmother's place, we used to call it as plate kova. Our village which is in Srikakulam district of Andhra Pradesh is famous for this kova.

I remember my childhood days, when my relatives often used to surprise us with this excellent dish. There are just three ingredients that are required to prepare this awesome sweet dish i.e. milk and sugar. The third and the most important ingredient being patience. We need a lot of patience and time to complete the sweet. I have prepared kova with 3 litres of milk and it took almost 8 hours for me to finish it. Now isn't it a long time? But the end result was delicious and fruitful because my kids and my husband loved it so much.

 

I have already shared the recipes of Kalakand and condensed milk which are also prepared in the same procedure as this kova.

Procedure

Take milk in a pan. Put it on low flame.

Cook until it becomes thick. Keep stirring occasionally to avoid milk burning at the bottom of the pan. Also, do not forget to scrap the edges of the pan once in a while. When the milk thickens,

add sugar and stir until it dissolves completely.

When the milk is completely dissolved, the milk mixture tends to liquidify again.

Keep cooking until the mixture becomes thick again.

Switch off the flame and bring it to room temperature. Store in a glass jar in the refrigerator. Stays good for upto a week.

Ingredients 

Milk   3 litres
Sugar  1 cup
Lots of patience

Method

1. Heat milk in a wide and thick bottomed pan. Cook on a low flame. 
2. Keep stirring occasionally to avoid burning at the bottom of the pan. Also, keep scraping the edges of the pan. 
3. When the milk becomes almost one third of the original quantity ( thickens ), add sugar and mix well.
4. Cook further until it thickens and switch off the flame.
5. Bring it to room temperature and store in a glass jar.
6. This sweet Kova stays good for upto a week.

Notes

• This paalakova can be prepared in a quicker way with condensed milk as well which will be discussed soon in this site.
• Palakova can also be prepared with kova. Just add sugar to the unsweetened kova and cook till you reach the desired consistency.