easy sandesh recipe | sandesh sweet | bengali sweet sondesh recipe
Recipe Snapshot
- Prep time: 30 minutes
- Cook time: 20 minutes
- Total time: 50 minutes
- Yield: 7 Servings
- Category: sweet
- Cuisine: bengali
Ingredients
- 2 litre full cream milk
- 3 tbsp lemon juice / vinegar / curd
- ½ cup powdered sugar
- ¼ tsp cardamom powder
- 3 tbsp tutti frutti (almonds or pistachios to garnish)
Method
- firstly, boil 2 litre full cream milk in a thick bottomed pan, stir occasionally.
- turn off the stove add add 3 tbsp of lemon juice / vinegar / curd.
- mix well till the milk curdles like while preparing paneer. add more lemon juice if required.
- now drain off the curdled milk using cloth.
- rinse with cold water, making sure the paneer remains soft and removes lemon flavour.
- squeeze and drain off the water.
- now hang the cloth along with curdled milk for 30 minutes. do not hang for more time, as they loose moisture completely.
- after 30 minutes, mash well for 10 minutes.
- mash till the curdled milk turns smooth and soft. else it will be difficult to prepare balls.
- further add ½ cup powdered sugar and combine well.
- transfer the prepared paneer dough onto the kadai.
- cook on low flame by spreading and mashing well.
- cook for 5 minutes or till the curdled milk is cooked well. over cooking, makes paneer crumbly loosing out all moisture.
- now add in cardamom powder and mix well.
- allow it to cool for 5 minutes.
- further, prepare small balls once its lightly cooled and make a dent in center.
- finally, garnish sandesh with tutti frutti, almonds or pistachios and serve.
Kiyaan Singh’s Kitchen Note
Keep this recipe as a working base: cook once as written, then adjust spice, texture, and serving style for your own table.