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35 min — 20 min prep, 15 min cooking.

Tripura Sandesh

Name: Tripura Sandesh
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 15 min
Total time: 35 min
Yield: 6 servings
Cuisine: Tripura Indian
Ingredients: 10g pistachios; 1500g Milk; 40g Lemon; 100g sugar; 2g Cardamom Powder

Pressed cottage cheese sweet with cardamom. Bengali dessert made in Tripura sweet shops.

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Time 35 min · Serves 6 · 259 kcal · Tripuri Tribal, Tripura

Ingredients

Garnish

pistachios (garnish) — 10 g

Main

Milk — 1500 g
Lemon — 40 g
sugar — 100 g
Cardamom Powder — 2 g

Method

Boil milk, switch off and add lemon juice slowly till it splits.
Strain the chhena in a muslin cloth and rinse with cold water.
Hang the chhena for 45 minutes to drain.
Knead chhena with your palm till smooth.
Cook chhena with sugar, stirring, till it leaves the pan.
Add cardamom powder and let it cool slightly.
Knead again and shape into small rounds.
Press a pistachio slice on top. Chill for 30 minutes.

Common questions

How many calories in one plate of Tripura Sandesh?: 259 kcal per plate.
How much cooking time?: 35 min — 20 min prep, 15 min cooking.

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