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    Kesar Sandesh Recipe

    Last Updated On: Apr 8, 2025 by Aarthi

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    Kesar Sandesh recipe with step by step pictures. This is basically a Bengali sweet that is made with fresh chenna or paneer and sugar which is flavored with saffron.

    Kesar Sandesh

    Sandesh is one sweet which i wanted to make for very long time. It is a really simple sweet to make, but taste really delicious. It is made with paneer, you can even make it with store bought paneer, but making it with homemade chenna is much more delicious.

    I flavoured this with saffron and cardamom..You can add so many flavours in this, will try to share more version.

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    Ingredients for Kesar Sandesh Recipe

    • Full Fat Milk - 1 liter
    • Lemon Juice - 1.5 tbsp
    • Sugar - ⅓ cup
    • Cardamom Powder - 1 tsp
    • Saffron a pinch
    • Nuts a handful finely chopped
     
     
     
     
    Hope you will give this a try and let me know how it turns out for you..

    How to Make Kesar Sandesh Recipe

    1. Squeeze some lemons, you will need 1.5 tbsp of lemon juice, line a sieve with muslin cloth and place it over a big bowl.
    2. Take milk in a pot and put it on high heat. Let it come to a boil. Once it boils, take it off the heat and let it sit for 1 min.
    3. Add in lemon juice and mix gently. The milk will curdle. Once a greenish whey separates from the milk and the milk solids have curdled completely. Strain it in the sieve.
    4. Now take a big bowl of cold water and wash the chenna well. rinse it in three changes of water.
    5. Squeeze it gently with your hands to remove any excess whey water, Tie a knot and hang it over a tap and leave it to drain for 30 mins. I squeezed occasionally to make things faster.
    6. Now the chenna is done, this is a soft chenna recipe, you can use them to make different sweets.
    7. Now take the crumbled chenna, sugar in a blender and puree till smooth.
    8. Take this in a dry pan and cook for 4 to 5 mins till it dries a little. Now take it off the heat and add in cardamom and saffron.
    9. Cool this down. Take small portion and roll it into a smooth ball. Make a indention and place some nuts in it.
    10. Chill this for few hours before serving.
     

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    Kesar Sandesh Recipe

    Kesar Sandesh recipe with step by step pictures. This is basically a Bengali sweet that is made with fresh chenna or paneer and sugar which is flavored with saffron.
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    Prep Time: 15 minutes minutes
    Cook Time: 30 minutes minutes
    resting time: 1 hour hour
    Total Time: 1 hour hour 45 minutes minutes
    Servings: 20 servings
    Calories: 44kcal

    Ingredients

    • 1 liter Full Fat Milk
    • 1.5 tbsp Lemon Juice
    • ⅓ cup Sugar
    • 1 tsp Cardamom Powder
    • Saffron a pinch
    • Nuts a handful finely chopped

    Instructions

    • Squeeze some lemons, you will need 1.5 tblspn of lemon juice, line a sieve with muslin cloth and place it over a big bowl.
    • Take milk in a pot and put it on high heat. Let it come to a boil. Once it boils, take it off the heat and let it sit for 1 min.
    • Now add in lemon juice and mix gently. The milk will curdle. Once a greenish whey separates from the milk and the milk solids have curdled completely. Strain it in the sieve.
    • Now take a big bowl of cold water and wash the chenna well. rinse it in three changes of water.
    • Squeeze it gently with your hands to remove any excess whey water, Tie a knot and hang it over a tap and leave it to drain for 30 mins. I squeezed occasionally to make things faster.
    • Now the chenna is done, this is a soft chenna recipe, you can use them to make different sweets.
    • Now take the crumbled chenna, sugar in a blender and puree till smooth.
    • Take this in a dry pan and cook for 4 to 5 mins till it dries a little. Now take it off the heat and add in cardamom and saffron.
    • Cool this down. Take small portion and roll it into a smooth ball. Make a indention and place some nuts in it.
    • Chill this for few hours before serving.

    Notes

    1)Always use full fat milk for making chenna.
    2)Adding lemon juice to curdle the milk gives a nice flavour to the chenna.
    3)You can reserve the whey water in a air tight bottle and when you make chenna for the next time, add this instead of lemon juice.
    4) You have to wash the chenna really well to get the extra sour taste.
    5) Hang the chenna to remove excess water, never place weight over it , it will make them tough.
    6)Dont add too much sugar to the sandesh, else it will leave so much water.
    7)Don't over cook it, else it will turn crumbly. Even if it turn crumbly or looks a bit dry, take it in a blender and puree till smooth, so you can shape it into ball.

    Nutrition

    Serving: 1g | Calories: 44kcal | Carbohydrates: 6g | Protein: 2g | Fat: 2g | Saturated Fat: 1g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 0.1g | Monounsaturated Fat: 0.4g | Cholesterol: 6mg | Sodium: 20mg | Potassium: 80mg | Fiber: 0.03g | Sugar: 6g | Vitamin A: 84IU | Vitamin C: 0.5mg | Calcium: 64mg | Iron: 0.02mg
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    Kesar Sandesh Step by Step

    Take milk in a pot
    Put it on high heat and keep stiring
    Squeeze juice from 1 lemon, you need 1.5 tblspn
    of lemon juice
    Line sieve with muslin cloth and place it over a bowl
    Now the milk must have started foamy
    Now it has boiled
    Take it off the heat and leave it for a 1 mins
    Add in the lemon juice
    Mix gently and you will see the milk has started curdling
    Now it is completely curdled, you can see a light greenish
    kind of water has separated, this is the correct stage
    pour the entire thing on to the sieve
    This is the whey water, so healthy..You can use them
    to knead chapati dough, add it to rasam, soup..
    Now take a bowl of cold water, drop the curdled chenna
    into the water and wash it well
    You can run it under cold tap water too.. I washed it
    like this for 3 changes of water

     

     
    Now hung it over a tap for 30 mins, i squeezed
    it with my hands occasionally to make things faster
     
    This is the soft chenna which you get after
    the draining process, you can use this to make sweets
    Now take your ingredients
    Take the chenna in a blender
    add in sugar
    now puree them till smooth
    it has to be smooth
    add it to a dry pan 
    keep mix till it gets little dry..
    dont over cook them, else it will turn crumbly
    take it off the heat, add in saffron and cardamom powder
    mix well
     
     
    cool this well
    take small portion and roll it to a smooth ball
    dip it in some chopped nuts
    done
    you can make a small indention in the middle
    place some nuts in
    chill it for 30 mins
    Serve
     
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