Mathura peda is a North Indian sweet dish that originated from

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. In North India sweets prepared from mawa (

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) are very popular and the peda is also a mawa sweet variety. Mathura peda is so famous in North India that the term is often used in aphorism like ''Mathura ka peda au Chhattisgarh ka kheda'' means "(famous are) the peda sweet of Mathura and helmet in

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." Mathura acts as a brand name for peda sweet. While visiting Mathura, Mathura ke pede, Meva vati peda and export quality special peda attract the visitors.

Janmashtami feast

In Mathura, the birthplace of

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, Mathura ke pede is a favorite offering. These are made by cooking together fresh mawa, milk, sugar and

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with cardamom powder for added flavour. In India

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holiday is considered incomplete without Peda. Every year on this day Peda are prepared to offer to Lord Krishna and break the fast

Global fame

At various tourist places even outside Mathura also, Mathura ke pede is the famous sweet all along with other Indian sweets like maner ke laddu and Agra ka petha.

The folklore taste

The taste of Mathura ke pede can be seen in

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also. "Mathura ke pede mohe lave, khilawe ji....."(he gives me the Mathura ka peda to eat) is the famous song among the Sand poojan (worship) songs in India.

As Geo-specialty prasada

Mathura peda in the Braj Parikrama is geo-specialty prasada, just like the Kurukshetra Prasadam (Channa laddu) is in the

48 kos parikrama of Kurukshetra The 48 kos parikrama is a parikrama (a circumbabulatory pilgrimage) of various ''Mahabharata''-related and other Vedic-era tirthas (Hindu sacred sites) around the holy city of Kurukshetra in the state of Haryana, India. Associated with Kri ...

.Chana laddoo to be ‘Kurukshetra prasadam’, The Tribune, 1 March 2020.

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