Orange sondesh is a variation of the popular bengali sondesh. Sondesh or sandesh is a milk sweet made by heat the milk and curdling it to form Chenna, is then drained and kneaded with sugar and flavoring. The non cooked versions of sondesh is called Kacha golla which literally means raw ball which is most common kind prepared at every household there , there can be a elaborate cooked versions of sondesh too. The no cook sondesh is not my kind as I some how don’t like the raw taste of chenna in it so I usually cook my sandesh when ever I make. At school we learned to make the non cooked versions and giving it a few variations like one of them was chocolate sandesh stuffed in the regular sandesh ( which is most popularly called as vino sandesh in the internet ) I will post my own version of it some day. I love giving a fruit flavor to our traditional Indian sweets it just make the dish more interesting and taste unique and yummy..I wanted to do this for so long and am so glad to have joined mega Bm this month, this theme just made me do what I was postponing to do so long.
Today am here with two amazing bengali sweets but with a twist, I love developing recipes and it gives me more happiness when I post them. In the morning when I was doing my regular cooking I had decided that for O I will go for Orange recipe, so after all the thinking I just started executing it. The Orange Rasmalai = Orange Rasgulla + Orange Rabdi was my equation to bring up something different. Morning I started my cooking thinking I would post the rasmalai recipe today but changed my mind and thought I should do some justice to them doing a separate post. I will post the recipe in a separate post for now lets come back to sondesh. I have made a cooked version of sondesh with orange flavors infused in them . I made My sondesh with ricotta cheese , No need to make chenna this is just that easy. Just mix in all the Ingredients and yeah little patience is sure required to make and shape them. You can shape them as you like , I tried to shaped them like an orange but my daughter kept telling me “Mama the shape looks like a pumpkin” :p he he so I stopped made the rest in the mold. My lil one is a super choosy and she got so attracted to these that she couldn’t resist to taste them. I usually enjoy shaping any sweets , so this was a fun task for me. Lets Move on to the recipe real quick..
O for Orange Sondesh and Orange Rasmalai
Theme ~ Indian Sweets
Ingredients
- Ricotta cheese -14 Oz
- Condensed Milk – 1 tin
- Icing sugar – 2 tbsp ( optional)
- Heavy cream – 1/2 cup
- Orange juice – 1/2 cup
- Orange extract – Few drops
- Orange Food color – Few drops
- Saffron – For garnish
- Pistachios – For garnish
- Ghee – For greasing the molds (optional)
Method
- In a pan pour in ricotta cheese, condensed milk,Icing sugar,heavy cream and mix them well.
- In low flame with constant stirring cook the mixture till it boils well and starts popping bubbles.
- Add orange juice,orange extract to the mixture and keep stirring.
- It needs little patience and constant stirring is must if not done it might burn from the bottom.
- Cook the Mixture till it leaves the corner of the pan and starts forming a mass.
- Transfer this to a greased plate and let it cool a bit.
- When it cools down but still warm to touch knead it well. Grease sondesh molds with ghee.
- Shape the sondesh as you like or use a sondesh mold to give some embellishment.
- I also tried to give my sondesh a orange shape with a clove on top for the branch and pistachios acting like a leaf.
- Shape your sondesh garnish it with some saffron strands and pistachios. Enjoy !!
- 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)
- In a pan pour in ricotta cheese, condensed milk,Icing sugar,heavy cream and mix them well.
- In low flame with constant stirring cook the mixture till it boils well and starts popping bubbles.
- Add orange juice,orange extract to the mixture and keep stirring.
- It needs little patience and constant stirring is must if not done it might burn from the bottom.
- Cook the Mixture till it leaves the corner of the pan and starts forming a mass.
- Transfer this to a greased plate and let it cool a bit.
- When it cools down but still warm to touch knead it well. Grease sondesh molds with ghee.
- Shape the sondesh as you like or use a sondesh mold to give some embellishment.
- I also tried to give my sondesh a orange shape with a clove on top for the branch and pistachios acting like a leaf.
- Shape your sondesh garnish it with some saffron strands and pistachios. Enjoy !!
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