March 19, 2020
Admin
8 min.
Lifestyle
Recipe of Sandesh Sandesh RecipeHow to make Sandesh
Disclosure : When you purchase a service or a product through our links, we sometimes earn a commission, at no extra cost to you.
Recipe of Sandesh - How to Make Sandesh
Recipe for Sandesh originated from the eastern state of West Bengal in India. Here it would be important to mention that Sandesh is a sweet dish and like most of the sweet dishes of India, it is taken both during festivals/special occasions and also in normal day to day life. Bengali Sandesh Recipe is very easy to prepare at home, and we are describing the same for all those who are thinking about how to make Sandesh Bengali sweet in their own home?
In any festive season or special occasion in India, Recipe for Sandesh Bengali Sweet is one of the top recipes that are on the mind of the chefs preparing the food. For people who are interested in knowing how to make Sandesh at home, it would be important to mention that Sandesh comes in many varieties and hence has many different recipes. Some of these are – Chocolate Sandesh Recipe, Mango Sandesh Recipe, Rose Sandesh Recipe, Dry Fruit Sandesh Recipe, Kacha Sandesh Recipe, Karapak Sandesh Recipe, and many other varieties.
As this recipe is meant for those who want to know as to how to make Sandesh at home, our Recipe of Sandesh preparation would be meant for preparing the simplest variety of Sandesh. This method is also the way Sandesh Recipe Bengali preparation is done. One of the main advantages of this Sandesh Sweet Recipe is that it needs, very few ingredients, which are available everywhere and is very easily affordable for everyone, who are thinking of making a tasty sweet on a budget.
Recipe for Sandesh Sweet
Ingredients Needed in Recipe of Sandesh Sweet
- Full cream milk – 1 litre (approximately 4 cups)
- Lemon/Curd – 2 Tablespoons (juice)
- Sugar – 1 cup
- Rose Food Essence – 6 to 7 drops
- Raisins (Kismis) – As per requirement (later described)
- Ghee – 1 teaspoon
- Water – 10 tablespoons (very little amount)
Ingredients needed in Recipe of Sandesh Sweet.
How to Make Sandesh at Home
-
Put a deep vessel pan, on a medium flame burner add 1 liter (4 cups) of full cream milk in it and let it boil. Stir the milk after every 2 minutes otherwise, the milk would overflow and spillover from the pan. After boiling the milk switch off the burner and allow the milk to get cooled for 3 to 4 minutes at room temperature.
-
Next, add Lemon juice/ curd slowly and stir the milk constantly. The milk will start curdling. After curdling the milk, the next step is to extract the Chena from this curdled milk. This is done by transferring the curdled milk to a clean cotton cloth (kept over a sieve) and allowing the water to drain out.
-
Once all the water is drained, then all open corners of the cloth are held together and tied into a sack having a tight knot.
Separating Chena from water, collected from curdled milk is an important step in Recipe for Sandesh preparation.
-
Press the sac tightly by hand and then place it on a clean plain surface and put a heavy weight on it, so that on the pressure all water will come out from the chena. Leave it like that for 25 to 30 minutes. Then take out the concentrated chena from the cloth and keep it on a plate.
Weight applied over the sac for draining out the watrer from chena in Sandesh Recipe.
-
In normal cases, almost 3/4th cup of Chena is obtained from 1-liter milk.
-
Now mash the chena by hand for at least 10 minutes, till the chena becomes very smooth like the dough used for making Chapati. Keep this aside.
-
Put a pan on a medium flame burner. Add 10 tablespoons of water and 1 cup sugar in it and stir constantly and make a syrup. When it starts to boil then switch off the burner.
-
Next, put a pan on a low flame burner, add 1 teaspoon ghee in it and allow it to get a bit warm. Now add chena in it and stir constantly. Transfer the sugar syrup, which we prepared earlier, into it and stir constantly for 2 to 3 minutes and make a creamy smooth mixture of chena and sugar syrup.
Chena being cooked by using Recipe of Sandesh .
-
The Burner is now switched off, otherwise, the chena will get stiff and form granules.
-
Now the chena is transferred to a plate and let it cool to the lukewarm stage.
-
Next, divide the chena mass into many small lemon sized balls.
-
Roll the pieces between 2 palms and press a little bit, so that it will be a little flat. Press the center of the ball by putting the tip of the thumb finger and form a small indentation in it.
-
Place a piece of single raisin (kismis) on the indentation produced above and press a bit on it, so the raisins get stuck tightly to the sweet.
Sandesh - The final dish.
-
Finally, we would like to mention that the chena mass doesn’t always have to be shaped into small balls. Some prefer to divide it into many small square/rectangular shapes. For this the total chena mass is kept on a greased plate and pressed by hand, to give a bulky rectangular shape. Now, this can be cut into the desired square/rectangular shape depending on personal choice.
-
Recipe of Bengali Sweet Sandesh is now complete and the dish is now finally ready to be served to your guests.
-
Some special tips in Recipe for Sandesh preparation would be worth mentioning here.
1) 100 grams of sugar is required for Chena, which is obtained from 1-liter full cream milk.
2) For making sugar syrup the amount of water used is very less i.e. the minimum quantity that dissolves the sugar should be used in Recipe of Bengali Sandesh.
(DECLARATION - All the images used in this site, are either from personal collection, or are images available in Public Domain. The owner of this website is grateful to all those, who donated their images to – Wikipedia, Wikimedia, Flickr, Pixabay, Picryl and all other sites; for free use, as images in Public Domain.)
Disclosure: When you purchase a service or a product through our links, we sometimes earn a commission, at no extra cost to you.
