Diwali special | sweet recipe sandesh

Diwali special sandesh recipe 

 Namaskar

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Today we'll make "Sandesh"

Sandesh is a Bengali sweet dish & is very delicious.

You can make "Sandesh" on some occasions

or you can also make it when you feel like.

This can be prepared at home very easily

So let's start making "Sandesh"

Ingredients for this are:

Full Cream Milk: 1 lit.

Lemon: 2 nos.

Powdery Sugar: 1/3rd cup (50 gms)

Green Cardamom: 5 nos.

Saffron: 20 - 25 strands

Pistachios: 10 - 12 pcs

Method :

For making Sandesh first of all we boil the milk

& make milk Curd Cheese (Chhena/milk protein) from it

so let’s prepare it.

Let the milk boil

switch on the gas

& wait for the milk to begin boiling

The milk has begun boiling

switch off the gas

& take the milk off the stove.

now let the milk cool down a little

Just wait for 5 minutes

If we add lemon juice to the boiling milk

then the milk curd cheese becomes too tight

So we’ll let the milk cool down a little

And then  we'll add lemon juice to it

let the milk cool down



 we’ve extracted the lemon juice in a bowl

Now add water to juice, in equal quantity.

mix them and gradually add it to the milk in small volumes.

We had let the milk cool down for complete 5 minutes

milk has cooled down

& now we'll add lemon juice to curdle it.

We'll add lemon juice in small amounts & mix.


Our milk curd cheese is ready now

But some lemon juice is left.

Now we won't add more lemon juice.

we'll stop adding lemon juice as soon as the milk curdles.

Now we'll filter out the curd cheese.

To filter the milk curd cheese we'll take a light cotton cloth it is called muslin cloth

We put a big bowl beneath the cloth

So that milk water will settle down

& milk curd cheese will remain above the cloth

So we'll put milk curd cheese to it to filter it

our milk curd cheese has been filtered

We'll add little cold water to wash it off

So we remove it from the bowl

& keep aside

& put little water on the milk curd cheese

& wash it off

So that the lemon juice can be expelled

& the milk curd cheese will cool down as well.

Now we’ll squeeze the curd cheese and strain the remaining water out.

Now we've squeezed out all the water from milk curd cheese

& now we'll take out the milk curd cheese in a plate

we'll take out milk curd cheese from cloth to the plate

we can also use the remaining water of the milk

We can add this to the Pulses (Dal) & also to the curry

Can also use it in vegetables

Can also knead the flour with it

All the minerals & vitamins of the milk are in this remaining water

We'll take out milk curd in the plate from cloth

Our milk curd is ready now & it is very soft as well.

For sandesh we need very soft milk curd cheese

Now we'll make it softer by pressing it

In this way we'll make milk curd softer by pressing it harder by fingers

We've to make it softer

by pressing it by fingers for 5 - 7 minutes

we've made this milk curd softer by pressing it by our hands for 5 - 6 minutes

Now we'll add  cardamom powder,

sugar powder & saffron strands to it

we'll prepare the cardamom powder

& also chop the pistachios

so we'll make cardamom powder

we'll make cardamom powder after peeling it

& we'll finely chop the pistachios

we've powdered the cardamom & finely chopped the pistachios

now we'll add saffron strands & powdered sugar to the curd cheese and mix

we'll mix them until all the ingredients have been mixed well

we've mixed them well for 2 - 3 minutes

now we'll fry it a little

so that rawness of paneer can come out

we'll heat a non stick pan

keep the flame low

& we'll add this paneer mixture to the pan

& we'll stir it continuously for 3 - 4 minutes the flame is low

we'll stir it continuously for 3 - 4 minutes

We'll keep in mind that our paneer will get fried

But doesn’t get crumbled again

now we've made it smoother by pressing harder

so we've to make sure that it doesn’t get crumbled again while frying it.

We must keep the flame really very low.

& on that lower flame we've to fry it by stirring it continuously in this way

we've fried this mixture by continuously stirring it

switch off the gas

again take out the mixture to the plate

let it cool down

after this we'll make Sandesh

milk curd cheese mixture has cooled down

so now we’ll add cardamom powder to it & mix

we'll mix it till cardamom powder gets mixed properly.

cardamom powder has mixed well

now we'll make Sandesh from it

there are many molds available for making sandesh

so we can make Sandesh using them

if you don't have the molds,

then we you can shape the Sandesh by using your palms.

our mixture is soft

it has cooled down

so now we'll make sandesh from this

if you feel like it's not softer enough so we can make it softer by pressing it harder again

we'll take small lump of the mixture in our palms

then we’ll shape it round

& bind it

after binding it we'll give it a shape by rotating round

with both the hands & press it slightly

In this way we'll make them one by one & keep them in the plate

first we bind it

after this we'll make it rounder

& slightly press it & keep aside

now we'll make all the Sandesh to be ready

now we've made all the Sandesh to be ready

Now we’ll garnish the Sandesh with finely chopped Pistachios

we'll add 2- 3 piece of pistachios over the Sandesh by pressing it slightly

so that it'll stick to it

& we've made this Sandesh Saffron flavoured

we've added Saffron to this

Sandesh can be prepared by our choice in different flavours

like if we want to make it Cashew flavoured

so make powder of 10 - 12 cashews

& add this to milk curd cheese & mix well

like if we want to make it Pistachios flavoured

so make powder of pistachios

& add this to milk curd cheese & mix well

in the same way if we want to make it Almond flavoured

so make powder of Almonds & add this to milk curd cheese & mix well

& we've added 50 gms powdered sugar to it

you may change this quantity as per as your taste.

Our Sandesh is now ready & it is very good

& is very easy to prepare

just be careful while frying the mixture

flame should be lower

& fry it while stirring it continuously

stir the mixture for 3 - 4 minutes not more than that

if we fry it more then paneer will be harder

will be harder and will have lumps in it

its softness will be gone

and then it will be difficult to prepare Sandesh

but if it happens, then cool the mixture

& mix it in a Mixer Grinder

then the paneer will be soft again

after this can make the Sandesh

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