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30 min — 15 min prep, 15 min cooking.

Nolen Gurer Sandesh

Name: Nolen Gurer Sandesh
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 15 min
Total time: 30 min
Yield: 6 servings
Cuisine: West Bengal Indian
Ingredients: 5g pistachios; 100g Date Jaggery (Khejur Gur); 40g Lemon; 1000g Milk; 20g sugar

Fresh chhena sweet made with date palm jaggery. Seasonal Kolkata winter delicacy, available December to February only.

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Time 30 min · Serves 6 · 205 kcal · Bengal, West Bengal

Ingredients

Garnish

pistachios (garnish) — 5 g

Main

Date Jaggery (Khejur Gur) — 100 g
Lemon — 40 g
Milk — 1000 g
sugar — 20 g

Method

Boil the milk, switch off, then slowly add lemon juice till it splits.
Strain in a muslin cloth, rinse and hang for 30 minutes.
Knead the chenna till very smooth.
Cook chenna with grated nolen gur and sugar, stirring all the time.
Switch off when it turns soft dough and leaves the pan.
Cool till warm and knead once more.
Press into moulds or shape round discs.
Top with pistachio and chill for 1 hour.

Common questions

How many calories in one plate of Nolen Gurer Sandesh?: 205 kcal per plate.
How much cooking time?: 30 min — 15 min prep, 15 min cooking.

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