Sandesh Recipe - How to Make Sandesh

Sondesh or sandesh, is a delicious and yummy Bengali sweet, but now popular all over India.

Ingredients
Ingredients for Sandesh Mishti
Full cream milk - 1 liter
Lemon - 2
Powdered sugar - 1/3 cup (50 grams)
Cardamom - 5
Saffron - 20 to 25 threads
Pistachios - 10 to 12

Directions

Getting ready:
Take milk in a vessel with heavy base or bottom and let it simmer on low flame.
Add some water to the lemon juice.

Making:
When you see gentle boil in the milk, turn off the flame and let the milk cool down a little.
Now add lemon water to the slightly warm milk in small portions. Stir and keep stirring constantly. When the milk starts to coagulate, then stop adding milk.
Strain this mixture through a muslin cloth and pour some cold water over it. Hold the cloth tight and squeeze out every drop of water from it.
Chena is ready, transfer it to another plate and start mashing it. Keep kneading for 5 to 6 minutes until smooth.
Mix some cardamom powder as well. Thinly chop the pistachios.
Now mix saffron and powdered sugar in chena and mix well.
Heat a non stick pan and add chena into it. Stir continuously and stir roast for 3 to 4 minutes.
Turn off the flame and transfer the chena into another plate. Let it cool down and then mix cardamom powder into it.
Then pinch small lump from the mixture and roll into a oval shape peda. Keep it over a plate. Garnish with some chopped pistachios and continue doing the same until the entire chena is utilized.

Serving:

Sandesh are now done and ready to serve. Store the rest in any container. Enjoy!

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