Recipe: Perfect Nolen gurer sondesh

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Recipe: Perfect Nolen gurer sondesh Delicious, fresh and tasty.

Nolen gurer sondesh. Sondesh is a most popular Bengali Sweet which is made with Chhana and Sugar/Gur. Minimum ingredients but really tasty sweet. In any occasion Bengali people celebrates with sondesh.

Leaving behind a very pleasant flavor of the date palm jaggery.

For those who are outside Bengal.

And missing the date palm jaggery Sondesh!

You can cook Nolen gurer sondesh using 3 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Nolen gurer sondesh

  1. You need of full fat milk.

  2. It’s of Lime juice from 1 Lime.

  3. You need of Date Palm Jaggery.

Here is the Nolen Gurer Sandesh recipe.

Though Sondesh is not available everywhere.

You can easily find Nolen Gur in Superstores.

Nolen gurer Sandesh is considered as one of the most anticipated winter dessert recipes among Bengalis.

Nolen gurer sondesh step by step

  1. Preparation of the cottage cheese- heat the milk in a heavy bottom pan. Once it begins to boil add the lime juice and turn off the flame..

  2. Stir the milk till it begins to curdle and the cottage cheese begins to separate..

  3. Strain the cottage cheese in a muslin cloth. Wash the cottage cheese under running water for few minutes so that smell of the lime is gone..

  4. Squeeze the cloth to drain out the excess water then hang it for half an hour to drain more water is remaining..

  5. Take the cottage cheese and start kneading with the heel of your palm for about 10 minutes till its nice and smooth..

  6. Take a non stick pan, heat it on a low flame..

  7. Add the Jaggery and allow it to melt, add the cottage cheese and mix them well..

  8. Keep stirring the mixture on a low flame for about 10-12 minutes till the whole thing comes as a mass..

  9. Transfer it to a plate and allow it to cool down for 5 minutes. Dont wait for it to come to room temperature as it will harden and it works be difficult to give shape to it..

  10. Take the mould and grease it with ghee, give shape to the sondesh with the help of mould..

  11. Serve warm or cold..

It is a chenna based sweet which originated in Bengal.

In Bengal, it is pronounced as Nolen gurer Sondesh.

It is subdivided into few more varieties like jol bhora Sandesh, kora paker Sandesh, norom paker Sandesh etc.

Nolen Gurer Sandesh will be extremely fragile at this stage and required to be removed from the mold carefully.

If not available with a mold then use your hand and give Sandesh a shape of a Ball.