Orange sondesh is a variation of the popular bengali sondesh. Sondesh or sandesh is a milk sweet made by heat the milk and curdling it to form Chenna, is then drained and kneaded with sugar and flavoring. The non cooked versions of sondesh is called Kacha golla which literally means raw ball which is most common kind prepared at every household there , there can be a elaborate cooked versions of sondesh too. The no cook sondesh is not my kind as I some how don’t like the raw taste of chenna in it so I usually cook my sandesh when ever I make. At school we learned to make the non cooked versions and giving it a few variations like one of them was chocolate sandesh stuffed in the regular sandesh ( which is most popularly called as vino sandesh in the internet ) I will post my own version of it some day. I love giving a fruit flavor to our traditional Indian sweets it just make the dish more interesting and taste unique and yummy..I wanted to do this for so long and am so glad to have joined mega Bm this month, this theme just made me do what I was postponing to do so long.
Today am here with two amazing bengali sweets but with a twist, I love developing recipes and it gives me more happiness when I post them. In the morning when I was doing my regular cooking I had decided that for O I will go for Orange recipe, so after all the thinking I just started executing it. The Orange Rasmalai = Orange Rasgulla + Orange Rabdi was my equation to bring up something different. Morning I started my cooking thinking I would post the rasmalai recipe today but changed my mind and thought I should do some justice to them doing a separate post. I will post the recipe in a separate post for now lets come back to sondesh. I have made a cooked version of sondesh with orange flavors infused in them . I made My sondesh with ricotta cheese , No need to make chenna this is just that easy. Just mix in all the Ingredients and yeah little patience is sure required to make and shape them. You can shape them as you like , I tried to shaped them like an orange but my daughter kept telling me “Mama the shape looks like a pumpkin” :p he he so I stopped made the rest in the mold. My lil one is a super choosy and she got so attracted to these that she couldn’t resist to taste them. I usually enjoy shaping any sweets , so this was a fun task for me. Lets Move on to the recipe real quick..
O for Orange Sondesh and Orange Rasmalai
Theme ~ Indian Sweets
Ingredients
- Ricotta cheese -14 Oz
- Condensed Milk – 1 tin
- Icing sugar – 2 tbsp ( optional)
- Heavy cream – 1/2 cup
- Orange juice – 1/2 cup
- Orange extract – Few drops
- Orange Food color – Few drops
- Saffron – For garnish
- Pistachios – For garnish
- Ghee – For greasing the molds (optional)
Method
- In a pan pour in ricotta cheese, condensed milk,Icing sugar,heavy cream and mix them well.
- In low flame with constant stirring cook the mixture till it boils well and starts popping bubbles.
- Add orange juice,orange extract to the mixture and keep stirring.
- It needs little patience and constant stirring is must if not done it might burn from the bottom.
- Cook the Mixture till it leaves the corner of the pan and starts forming a mass.
- Transfer this to a greased plate and let it cool a bit.
- When it cools down but still warm to touch knead it well. Grease sondesh molds with ghee.
- Shape the sondesh as you like or use a sondesh mold to give some embellishment.
- I also tried to give my sondesh a orange shape with a clove on top for the branch and pistachios acting like a leaf.
- Shape your sondesh garnish it with some saffron strands and pistachios. Enjoy !!
- Ricotta cheese -14 Oz
- Condensed Milk - 1 tin
- Icing sugar - 2 tbsp ( optional)
- Heavy cream - ½ cup
- Orange juice - ½ cup ( Fresh juice)
- Orange extract - Few drops
- Orange Food color - Few drops
- Saffron - For garnish
- Pistachios - For garnish
- Ghee - For greasing the molds (optional)
- In a pan pour in ricotta cheese, condensed milk,Icing sugar,heavy cream and mix them well.
- In low flame with constant stirring cook the mixture till it boils well and starts popping bubbles.
- Add orange juice,orange extract to the mixture and keep stirring.
- It needs little patience and constant stirring is must if not done it might burn from the bottom.
- Cook the Mixture till it leaves the corner of the pan and starts forming a mass.
- Transfer this to a greased plate and let it cool a bit.
- When it cools down but still warm to touch knead it well. Grease sondesh molds with ghee.
- Shape the sondesh as you like or use a sondesh mold to give some embellishment.
- I also tried to give my sondesh a orange shape with a clove on top for the branch and pistachios acting like a leaf.
- Shape your sondesh garnish it with some saffron strands and pistachios. Enjoy !!
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Seriously drooling over… Ricotta cheese is a boon naa for preparing this sondesh. Last year I made rose flavored ones with ricotta cheese. Yours have set very well and those designs are eye-catchy. Awesome
Very very tempting. The presentation makes it irresistible.
Omg, what an idea !!! Orange sandesh and rasamalai both sounds delicious and very inviting. You have such a patience to shape them so perfect. Same here, even i don’t like the raw ones, always prefer them as cooked !!! bookmarked, definitely gonna give it a try, Manjula!!!
Orange sandesh and orange rasmalai, seriously am lost and dunno what to choose. Both looks absolutely delightful and irresistible. And those pumpkin shaped lol, ishi is totally correct hahah. Those orange shaped sandesh looks damn cute and rasmalai is super tempting. Well done Manju.
The vibrant colour is all in my eyes kudos to your effort for making both sondesh and rasmalai. lovely pics as always!!
Sondesh is one of my fav milk sweets and orange one of my fav flavours. By combining both you have created an excellent recipe. Those cute sondesh pieces look super inviting. And the rasmalai with orange flavour sounds fantastic. I would love to dig into that bowl..
I dont know where to begin..seriously.First I like those moulds you have used to make these sandesh..would love to get some , where do I buy them from? The orange looks like an orange but even I prefer the moulded sandesh , but the rasmalai wow..I dont know how to express!.
If there was a technology where I could lift that from the screen I would’nt have waited a second..oh man it is awesome.
eyes keep going back to rasmalai which is the only bengali sweet i like. these sondes are super cute n inviting !
I’ve had the opportunity to taste different flavored sandesh when a few years ago I went to the ISKCON in Mayapur. everyday for prasadum they would have different flavoured sandesh. Love the molds you’ve used and the round ones do look like pumpkin.
Literally drooling over the colour Manjula, such an excellent one!..I too had enjoyed making the bengali sweet in AtoZ order and it was so much fun!
Those Orange Sandesh look amazing. Your cooked Sandesh recipe sounds absolutely delicious and easy to make too. Will definitely try it out some time soon.
I m falling short of words to describe manjula! love your patience, the passion towards what you do! The care you take in what you serve here! Fabulous!
Those sandesh looks outof the world! Top quality! perfectly shaped, love the pretty details
Wishing you more happiness in what you do!!!
You seriously need to open a mithai shop Manjula and start shipping all over US. I will be your first customer 🙂 The orange Sandesh and the rasmalai looks fabulous and love the beautiful orange color that you have got for both of them. Awesome job Girl!!
Omg, I love the cute shape of that delicious sandesh. The ricotta and cream together must have made them so rich and delicious.
The dessert looks like the one we get in the sweet shop! So professionally made! Love the color of the sweet.I need to look for Sondesh moulds.
Your sondesh looks so divine and tasty.. perfectly done.