Bengali Sweet Nikuti

Name: Bengali Sweet Nikuti
Total time: 2400 s
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: Indian
Ingredients: 1/2 cup Cottage cheese; 1 tbsp Refined Flour; 1 tbsp Semolina; 1 tbsp Milk powder; 1 tbsp Ghee; 1/2 tsp Baking soda; as required Oil for frying; 1 cup Sugar; 1 cup water; 1-2 cardamom; 1 pinch saffron

Rituparna Ghosh @Ritu_677

West Bengal

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As a Bengali, always my favourite dessert is sweet. And I like 'Nikuti'.Its a famous sweet of Burdwan dist made of cottage cheese.

Rituparna Ghosh @Ritu_677

West Bengal

#2020fav
As a Bengali, always my favourite dessert is sweet. And I like 'Nikuti'.Its a famous sweet of Burdwan dist made of cottage cheese.

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Ingredients

40 mins

4 servings

1/2 cupCottage cheese
1 tbspRefined Flour
1 tbspSemolina
1 tbspMilk powder
1 tbspGhee
1/2 tspBaking soda
as requiredOil for frying
1 cupSugar
1 cupwater
1-2cardamom
1 pinchsaffron

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Steps

40 mins

1

Take 1/2 cup Cottage cheese,1 tbsp Semolina,1 tbsp milk powder,ghee,1 tbsp refined flour for binding and add 1/2 tsp Baking soda.
2

Mix together well.Mash it for at least 10 mins otherwise it may be broken.
3

Now make small balls and shape it oval.
4

Now take oil in a pan and put it in medium flame.
5

Put the oval balls into it and fry until it becomes golden brown.
6

Remove from the pan and keep aside.
7

Next make sugar syrup.
8

Take 1 cup water and 1 cup sugar and boil it.Add pinch of saffron (optional).
9

Add 2 Cardamoms and put the fried sweets.
10

Now remove it from the pan and keep it in a bowl for 30 mins.
11

Then remove it from the sugar syrup and serve it.