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Monday, May 28, 2012

Sandesh | Bengali Sweet Recipe | Dessert Recipe!

Author: Saraswathi Iyer | Posted at: 7:14 PM | Filed Under: CHILLED DESSERT, HOMEMADE BENGALI SWEETS, PANEER(INDIAN COTTAGE CHEESE) RECIPES, SWEETS, TRADITIONAL/AUTHENTIC RECIPES

After my previous post on How to make Fresh Homemade Chena/Paneer I prepared this sweet. Sandesh is a Bengali sweet. Its very delicious and tasty. My bengali friend here also had told me the method. I use to eat a lot of Bengali sweets when in Bangalore from K C Das and Blue Bell, it will be really delicious. No one can eat just one:-)

Ingredients
Chena/Fresh Paneer- 2 to 3 cups(It should be definetly homemade and fresh) Click here for recipe
Sugar - 1 cup
Cardamom powder - 2 pinches.
Milk - 1 tablespoon

Grind Sugar to fine powder once and add chena and grind it. Heat a kadai and add this.

Heat a vessel and keep stirring.

Keep Stirring till its little dry and water is absorbed.

Off the stove at this consistency. Allow it to cool.

Add milk and knead. Make small balls or desired shapes.

Preparation Method
Powder sugar in mixie. Add the fresh chena to it and grind to smooth paste.
Heat a kadai, add the ground mixture. Keep stirring until its thick and slight colour change. Add the cardamom powder and mix. Off the stove.
Allow it to cool.
Once its cool add 1 tblspn milk and kneed to smooth dough.
Slowly take small portions and make small balls or into any shape you need. Store in air tight container.
Let it sit for an hour in fridge before your serving.

I could make around 15 nos of medium size sweet.

Shelf life - This will stay for about a week.

Sandesh is ready to serve.

Serve it chilled.

This recipe is going for Cooking with love Dad started by Saraswathi Iyer and guest hosted by Nayna and Showcase Desserts by Divya.

Friday, May 25, 2012

Homemade Fresh Chena | Soft Paneer | Step Wise Basic Recipe!

Author: Saraswathi Iyer | Posted at: 4:55 PM | Filed Under: HOMEMADE BENGALI SWEETS, How to make, PANEER(INDIAN COTTAGE CHEESE) RECIPES, SWEETS

Thank you for the wishes on FB for my Engagement Anniversary. I have done this many times at home, but today was able to click the step wise pictures. Hope you like it.

How to make Fresh Chena/Paneer at home step wise pictures. I have already posted the recipe here but this has a slight change in preparation and just loved this. This recipe is exclusive for sweets.

Ingredients

Amul Gold Extra Cream Milk - 1 ltr

Vinegar - 1 tablespoon

Muslin cloth or any white dhothi cloth.

Preparation Method

Step by Step pictures

I have used Amul but you can also use any Full Cream Milk.

Boil Milk

Add Vinegar to the milk

Get ready to collect chena

Just started to curdle.

curdling.

Fully Curdled

Pour and collect. Check out it will be real hot.

Hang for whey water to drop out.

1. In a vessel add milk and allow to boil. Once it come to boil, add vinegar and after 1 min off the stove. Mix it with a spoon/laddle.

2. Let it sit for few minutes and mix until all the milk is curdled.
3. Take a vessel put cloth on it and pour this slowly.
4. Collect the panner and tight it thouroughly to a tap or anyplace so all water is dropped for about an hour or more.
5. Then squeeze extra water and transfer it to a bowl or air tight container for use of any preparation of Bengali Sweets at home.

This is unsweetned Chena for the sweets.

My future post is definetly a sweet dish. Any guesses? leave your comment.

Thursday, May 24, 2012

Black & White Wednesday Gallery | Event Roundup!

Author: Saraswathi Iyer | Posted at: 11:17 PM | Filed Under: EVENT ROUNDUPS

Hi Friends,

I am glad and happy in guest hosting Susan Wolfe Black and White #33 Wednesday this week. I have received 21 entries.Thanks Susan for the opportunity.

The roundup/gallery will be up below and I thank each and everyone for the contribution.