When I am hosting a party, I am most excited about the dessert. However, I can't really ignore the main food and at the same time don't really want to serve store bought desserts either. As a result, I always find myself looking for dessert options which are easy to make.
A twist to traditional Sandesh (a Bengali sweet) is a good solution especially during summers. I usually make mango sandesh but I tried strawberry sandesh recently as the farmer's market is flooded with ripe and tasty strawberries. Enjoy this refreshing recipe!
Ingredients:
1/2 gallon milk (2%)
juice of 1 lemon
4 tbsp sugar (or more if you have a sweet tooth)
8-10 ripe strawberries or 2-3 ripe mangoes (thinly sliced)
- Boil milk and add juice of 1 lemon to the boiling milk to make paneer (Indian cheese)
- Soon, water and paneer will separate. Switch off the gas and drain-off excess water and keep paneer
- Add sugar to the paneer and taste. You can add more sugar if you like.
- Take a 8X4 pan (or 4 individual small bowls) and make a thin layer in the pan using half of the paneer mixture. Make sure that you spread it evenly and the pan is fully covered. If you feel that you are not able to cover the entire pan - use a smaller pan.
- Prepare a second layer using sliced ripe strawberries or mangoes on top of the paneer layer (you might be putting two layers, one on top of other, of strawberries depending upon the thikcness of ur slices. Make sure that the mangoes or strawberries taste good)
- Finally, spread the third layer with the remaining paneer mixture
- Cover the pan with foil or plastic wrap and keep this in the refrigerator to set for 2 hrs or in freezer for 1 hr
- Cut into 4 pieces and serve :)
7 comments:
This was sooo good! Aren't people jealous of me :)
At least there is one person who is supremely jealous of you right now Gols! The mango one sounds even more wonderful.. mmmm..
why your every dish has a new underlying cutlery:-)
To keep it diverse:) using the existing stock of plates :) Soon, they will repeat!
Tussi Great ho A!
Goli: I sure am jealous, do you think you will consider adopting me ?
Goli: ofcourse we are jealous. I wish Anjana had started Baking at Midnight when we were room mates :(
Ekta, I wish too:)) vaise many initial failures (or successes) were at our kitchens on spruce st :)) Ofcourse you, A, and U also have a big role in gettting me excited abt this :))
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