Chocolate Rose Kalakand | Indian Cheese Cake is a melt in the mouth milk based sweet that is flavored with Rose and chocolate.
Course Indian Sweet
Cuisine Indian Cuisine
Keyword Indian Sweet
Prep Time 5 minutesminutes
Cook Time 20 minutesminutes
Servings 4
Author Vaishali Sabnani
Equipment
Pan / Kadai / Wok
Ingredients
2lts full-fat milk
1tsplemon juice
3-4tbspRose Syrup or as per taste
3-4tbspNutella or as per taste
2tbsppistachios powder
Instructions
Divide the milk in two pots and place both to boil.
Place the first pot on a low flame and stir the milk at regular intervals .
Once the milk has boiled in the second pot add the lemon juice and curdle the milk.
Now strain this mix in a cheesecloth.
Pour fresh and cold water over the prepared cheese, this shall remove all traces of lemon.
keep aside.
Now we shall come back to pot 1 where milk would have reduced considerably.
We need to reduce it to half.
Squeeze out all the water from the cheese cloth and add the paneer to the first pot where milk has been boiling.
Divide the mix into two parts . Add Rose syrup to one and Nutella to the other. Cook them for 2-3 minutes.
If there is a little milk like moisture , do not worry , it shall make the kalakand juicy .
Transfer the Rose kalakand to a greased tray and after a few minutes transfer the chocolate Kalakand over it. let it set.
Garnish with pistachios powder and dried roses.
Cut into pieces .
Notes
Use full-fat milk to make Kalakand.
Make sure you use the homemade chenna to get a soft, melt in the mouth Kalakand.
Using a store-bought paneer might make the Kalakand a little rubbery.