Orange Sondesh Recipe | Orange Sandesh | Orange Rasmalai ~ Bengali Sweets
 
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Orange Sandesh is a variation of bengali sandesh with orange flavor infused in it. This is just melt mouth kind of cooked sandesh.
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Recipe type: Indian Sweets
Cuisine: Bengali Cuisine
Serves: 15
Ingredients
  • Ricotta cheese -14 Oz
  • Condensed Milk - 1 tin
  • Icing sugar - 2 tbsp ( optional)
  • Heavy cream - ½ cup
  • Orange juice - ½ cup ( Fresh juice)
  • Orange extract - Few drops
  • Orange Food  color - Few drops
  • Saffron - For garnish
  • Pistachios - For garnish
  • Ghee - For greasing the molds (optional)
Instructions
  1. In a pan pour in ricotta cheese, condensed milk,Icing sugar,heavy cream and mix them well.
  2. In low flame with constant stirring cook the mixture till it boils well and starts popping bubbles.
  3. Add orange juice,orange extract to the mixture and keep stirring.
  4. It needs little patience and constant stirring is must  if not done it might burn from the bottom.
  5. Cook the Mixture till it leaves the corner of the pan and starts forming a mass.
  6. Transfer this to a greased plate and let it cool a bit.
  7. When it cools down but still warm to touch knead it well. Grease sondesh molds with ghee.
  8. Shape the sondesh as you like or use a sondesh mold to give some embellishment.
  9. I also tried to give my sondesh a orange shape with a clove on top for the branch and pistachios acting like a leaf.
  10. Shape your sondesh garnish it with some saffron strands and pistachios. Enjoy !!
Recipe by Desi Fiesta at https://www.desifiesta.com/2018/04/orange-sondesh-recipe-orange-sandesh-orange-rasmalai-bengali-sweets.html