Love Sweets? Make This Lip Smacking Bengali Sandesh At Home Now

One of the most popular sweets out there, the Bengali sandesh is not just food but rather an emotion. Ask a Bengali about what is so special about sandesh, and he/she will place it high up in the rank table along with rasgulla and mishti doi and will go into a long discourse of how the popular dessert is perfect for all seasons and moods. 

Usually served after a meal, or before offering water to a weary guest, the quintessential sandesh is sweetmeat made from chenna, sugar with a bit of cardamom along with whatever garnish you desire.

A perfect treat for kids and adults alike, it is liked not only by Bengalis but all over India as well. If you have sweet tooth and crave to have sandesh, worry not, with the help of this easy recipe you can make it at your home. It does not demand much of your time and you can make it with basic items available at your home. You may make it for a get-together party at your home or for any festival.

Ingredients:

• Full cream milk - 2 cups
• Lemon Juice - 2 tsp 
• Powdered sugar - 2 ½ tablespoon
• Cardamom powder or rose water - a pinch or a drop
• Pista, almonds, saffron, choco sprinkles, rose petals to garnish

Method:

• Take a container and boil full cream milk.
• Once the milk starts boiling, lower the flame and add lemon juice to it. The milk will curdle.
• Now, take a muslin cloth and rinse the excess water and hang cheena for some time.
• Wash cheena with cold water and put it under a heavy weighing container to let the excess water rinse.
• After 15 minutes, take a non-stick pan (buy Prestige Omega Deluxe Aluminium Granite Fry Pan from here at ₹ 656) and add moist chenna to it.
• Now, add powdered sugar (buy Dhampur Green Bura Sugar from here at ₹ 99) and rose water or cardamom powder and mix well. Cook on a low flame.
• Once the mixture melts off and becomes gooey, cook until you get a thick consistency throughout. Mix it all in and leave the pan aside.

• Once cool, knead it lightly. Roll into balls and flatten slightly. You can add crushed pista or almond (buy almonds from here at a discounted price of ₹ 189) while kneading.
• Garnish with nuts, almonds, rose petals or chocolate sprinkles.

Your delectable sandesh is ready. Refrigerate and consume within two days.