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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
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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