Name: Mishti Doi recipe by Geeta Sachdev at BetterButter
Prep time: 25 min
Cook time: 480 min
Total time: 505 min
Yield: 1
Ingredients: 1/2 litre full cream milk; 2 tablespoon curd; 125 gram sugar; 4 to 5 crushed seeds of Cardamoms; few strands of kesar; 1 teaspoon rose or kewra essence

ABOUT Mishti Doi RECIPE

Mishti doi is a fermented sweet doi. This type of yogurt is common in the states of West Bengal and Odisha in India, and in Bangladesh. It is made with milk and sugar/jaggery. It differs from the plain yogurt because of the technique of preparation

Ingredients Serving: 1

1/2 litre full cream milk
2 tablespoon curd
125 gram sugar
4 to 5 crushed seeds of Cardamoms
few strands of kesar
1 teaspoon rose or kewra essence

Instructions

boil the milk in a heavy bottom pan on a medium flame till it reduced to half. Stir continuously. Turn off the gas and cool it till it is just luke warm
Put the sugar in another pan and heat over a low flame to dissolve. Allow the sugar to caramelise /brown. Remove from the heat. and add the milk to the caramelised sugar and mix well
When the sugar and milk are thoroughly mixed, add the yoghurt to the mixture and stir gently to mix
Add cardamom seeds, essence and kesar strands per choice
Pour into the desired container and keep in a warm dark place for the Mishti doi to set
the best taste results are achieved by setting the mishti doi in an earthen pot
when the mishti doi has set, keep in the refrigerator for a few hours and serve chilled

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