With Ricotta cheese as base for this Nolen Gur sandesh and a total of only 3 ingredients this is one of the easiest recipes of sandesh. No Chenna/paneer required. Just mix,cook, cool and shape into sandesh.
Winters in Kolkata are synonymous with desserts made from this seasonal delicacy. For those not familiar with this term-Nolen means new and Gur means jaggery. This gur is basically the sap from the Khajur/khejur trees or date palms. A slit is made in the stem of the trees and an earthern pot tied just below the slit to catch the sap/juice or Ros. The juice collects overnight and then next morning the juice is brought down, boiled and undergoes the process of being converted into gur/jaggery. Any delay in converting the sap into jaggery can lead to fermentation of the sap into alcohol. This fermented sap is sold as Toddy or Tari.
To make this winter specialty available all around the year, they started processing and preserving the otherwise liquid gur in solidified form as Patali Gur. That’s what I have used to make this Sandesh.
One of my most popular Bengali desserts that my friends request me to make over and over again is Mishti Doi-An Easy Stir and Set Recipe. Some other real easy dessert recipes are- Mango Mousse without eggs gelatin or agar agar ,Mango Ice Cream-No Churn No Eggs, Kalakand- 3 Ingredient, One pan, Microwave Recipe, Badaam Ki Barfi with Almond Flour and Instant Shahi Tukra.
Here is the written recipe followed by the step by step pictorial one-
Nolen Gur Sandesh with Ricotta Cheese
Equipment
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1 non stick pan
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1 spatula
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1 plate
Ingredients
- 1 15 oz/425 gms Ricotta Cheese tub-Full fat
- 1 cup Nolen Gur/Patali Gur-grated
- 1/2 cup milk powder
- 1 tbsp Ghee
Instructions
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In a cold non stick pan put all the ingredients and mix well
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Turn on the stove and cook on medium for 20 minutes till it leaves the sides of the pan
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Remove pan from stove
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Should be a little liquid, leave in pan to cool. Will thicken when it cools.
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When cool enough to handle, put a dab of ghee in your hands and shape them into small discs/sandesh
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Put a sprinkling of finely crushed pistachios as garnish
Notes
Here is the step by step pictorial recipe-
Ingredients
Cook on medium till water dries up and mix starts leaving sides of pan
Move pan from stove. let mixture cool in pan.
Once it cools and thickens(see last picture) shape into sandesh
Garnish with chopped pistachios
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Mona
Hi.would love to try as I have milen gur ,need to know substitute for ricotta cheese. Thanks
Aanchal Gupta
Hi Mona, this is an instant recipe. That’s why I am using Ricotta cheese. You can make it the traditional way by using paneer.
Sangeeta sethi
What a fabulous instant hassle free recipe u have given …by using minimal usage of ingredients ..
Aanchal Gupta
Thank you Sangeeta di. I love easy hassle free recipes with few ingredients. Hope you will try it out.
Aanchal Gupta
Thanks di
Shefali
This was such an amazing, tasty and quick recipe. I made it today for Ganesh Chaturthi .
Thanks for sharing this recipe.
Aanchal Gupta
Thanks Shefali for sharing your feedback. It really is a quick, easy and tasty recipe. Glad you enjoyed it.
Anu M Tatini
Love this recipe for many reasons other than the taste. Was easy to make with easily available ingredients like ricotta, milk powder, & light brown sugar ( in place of gur). I used 1/2 tspn elaichi powder for flavoring, have a mindset that a sweet has to have some kind of flavor. Sandesh turned out well! Will definitely try with date gur if I find it here. Thanks Anchal for this easy recipe!
Aanchal Gupta
Hi Anu, thanks for sharing your feedback. You are right it’s an easy recipe with readily available ingredients and so full of flavor. You will love the date gur Sandesh as well. I have tried with regular gur, turns out pretty good.