Receta Bengali Payesh

The first thing comes to mind when we say Milk based sweets are the "Bengali sweets". Most of their sweet dishes, the popular ones like Rasgulla, Sandesh, Ras malai, are made with chenna - milk solids we get by curdling the milk. They form the essential base for these desserts.  As per the article mentioned in Indiatimes, Portuguese introduced Chenna to Bengalis. My curiosity for getting to know, how the Bengalis became so biased with the "Diary" for their sweetmeats led to this interesting read. This article is about Chenna and how it entered the Bengali Kitchens. No matter how or why, I am deeply indebted to them and I am so grateful. I love love those milk sweets and for a long time, those were the only sweets that I ever ate. :) So,…