🇮🇳 Indian Cuisine

Sandesh

Bengali Milk Sweet

Prep Time 40 minutes
Servings 6
Difficulty medium
Calories 150 kcal

A delicate Bengali sweet made from fresh chhena and sugar, shaped into decorative molds. Unlike rasgulla, sandesh is not cooked in syrup but gently shaped and flavored.

Ingredients

Instructions

  1. 1 Boil milk, add lemon juice to curdle. Strain and press to extract whey.
  2. 2 Knead chhena until very smooth (10-12 minutes).
  3. 3 Cook chhena with sugar on low heat, stirring continuously until mixture thickens and leaves the pan sides.
  4. 4 Add cardamom and saffron. Remove from heat.
  5. 5 Shape into molds or press with decorative stamps. Garnish with pistachios. Refrigerate.

Did You Know?

There are over 100 varieties of sandesh in Bengal, from nolen gurer sandesh (made with date palm jaggery) to chocolate sandesh.