Shandesh

Description

Fresh cheese dessert

Ingredients

• 1 gallon whole milk
• 6 tablespoons lemon juice
• ½ cup sugar
• 1 tablespoon ghee
• 10 pistachios, finely crushed
• 6 whole cardamom pods, seeds only, finely ground

Directions

1. In a large, heavy saucepan, bring milk to the boiling over point.
2. Add lemon juice and stir, until milk curdles.
3. Remove from heat and let set for a few minutes.
4. Pour curds into a cheesecloth.
5. Tie cloth and press out excess moisture, until cheese is firm, like the curds in dry curd cottage cheese.
6. Place cheese on a board, knead in sugar until the cheese is smooth.
7. In a large heavy frying pan, heat ghee.
8. Add sugared cheese and cook on low to medium heat for 7 minutes, stirring constantly.
9. Otherwise it will stick or burn.
10. Add crushed pistachios and ground cardamom.
11. Remove from heat.
12. Pour sandesh into a serving dish and smooth out by pressing down firmly with a spoon.
13. Cut into equally sized portions.
14. Serve either warm or chilled.