Almond Sandesh

My brother has come to stay with me, and I am found the right opportunity to try out new recipes! My bro is one person who will criticise my cooking quite often, pull my legs even more, but finally ends up eating whatever I server him, good-modrate-bad, without much ado. So, I thought of trying out making some almond sandesh, and they turned out to be quite well! So, here comes the recipe, which is actually a fluke and can be made in a jiffy!!

Ingredients (for 8-10 pieces )

• Full cream/ cow Milk -1 litre
• Lemon- 2 medium sized
  
• MTR Badam Feast (contains sugar, almond, skimmed milk, saffron, cardamom)
• Powdered Sugar ( if required )
• Whole Almonds (soaked in water)
  

Procedure:

1. Boil the milk in a large pan.
2. When boiled, add juices of the lemons and stir continuously to make chhana (cottage cheese) . Let it cool.
   
3. Drain the water from the chhana. Put the chhana in a clean cloth and hang it for 2-3 hours or more to drain out all excess water.
4. Transfer the chhana on a plate. Add about 4 tsp of MTR Badam Feast powder. Mix the ingredients well, and knead the chhana so that no lumps remain and it becomes as smooth as possible.
5. Taste the mix a bit and if you like to have it sweeter, then add some powdered sugar according to your taste.
6. Take a few dots of butter or ghee on your fingers and grease an ovenproof dish.
   
7. Make 8-9 equal portions of the dough. Now roll them with your hand and make flat, round shapes.
   
8. Make a small dent on the top with your thumb and place one almond on the dent.
9. Arrange the sandesh pieces in the ovenproof dish.
10. Bake for about 20-25 minutes at 150 degree C.
11. Cool and serve

As you can understand from the recipe, the flavoring ingredients for the recipe are all included in MTR Badam Feast. You can just add the same ingredients rationally proportionately, if you dont have the readymade mix.

After baking, the ghee/butter at the bottom, as well as the sandesh pieces themselves may give a bit of runny/watery look. The fat will solidify as the vessel cools down.