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Creamy and luxurious Bengali mishti doi made with reduced milk, jaggery, and Greek yogurt!

Bengali Mishti Doi Recipe with Jaggery

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This utterly creamy and delicious Bengali Mishti Doi Recipe with Jaggery is a MUST-HAVE dessert. The thickened milk is sweetened with Palm Jaggery and then mixed with strained yogurt to make the world-famous misti doi. The taste is unforgettably rich, creamy, and luxurious!
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Prep Time 2 hours
Cook Time 8 hours
Course Dessert
Cuisine Bengali, Indian
Servings 6

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Instructions
 

Step 1 - Strain the yogurt

  • Place a cheesecloth on a colander and pour the yogurt on it. Then grab the edges of the cloth and squeeze it gently to drain off the excess water. Keep it aside for an hour.

Step 2 - Simmer and reduce the milk

  • Boil milk in a heavy-bottomed pot. Once it comes to a boil, reduce the heat and simmer the milk till the quantity boils down to half. This thickened milk will give a rich taste to the mishti doi.

Step 3 - Melt the Jaggery/Gur

  • Take a pan and add jaggery to it. Heat the pan on low heat to melt the khejur gur. Keep an eye on the pan and be patient. Keep stirring till the jaggery melts completely.

Step 4 - Mix the milk with jaggery

  • When the milkis lukewarmm (you should be able to dip your finger in it comfortably), add it to the melted jaggery and give it a good stir. If you mix very hot milk with jaggery, the milk will curdle.

Step 5 - Mix the hung curd with the jaggery and milk mixture

  • Take the hung yogurt out of the cloth to a bowl and whisk it. Then pour a little bit of the warm milk and jaggery mixture into the yogurt and whisk until it's smooth. Pour the entire yogurt mixture into the milk and whisk until you see no lump.

Step 6 - Prepare your pot

  • If you are using the earthen pot, then take some yogurt and spread the yogurt on the insides of the pot.
  • Pour the yogurt mixture into the pot and cover with a silver foil

Step 7 - Setting the misti doi

  • Heat your oven to 250 degrees F and place the mishti doi pot in the oven. After an hour, switch off the oven but don't remove the pot. Keep the light inside the oven turned on. Leave the container there for 8 hours.

Step 8 - Chill the gur misti doi

  • After 8 hrs, place it in the refrigerator to further set and cool down.
Keyword Bengali, Bengali Sweet, Meetha Dahi, Mishti Doi, Misti Dohi, Sweetened Yogurt
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