Recipe: Boondi Ladoo Cheese cake (The traditional Ladoo served on Ganesh Chaturthi with modern twist)

(Here is interesting recipe through which you can invoke Lord Ganesha)

Ingredients:

300 gm curd

200 gm cream cheese

Five Boondi ladoo

100 gm condensed milk

1 tbsp clear gelatin or agar-agar

½ cup+3tbsp of water

½ cup of sliced almonds and pistachios

Two digestive biscuits/marie crackers

2 tbsp melted butter

2 tbsp brown sugar (powdered)

Recipe:

Crush the cookies very finely.  Now mix melted butter, brown sugar and crushed cookies in a mixing bowl and put it in the bottom of the pan and flatten it with light pressure.  Heat about ½ cup of water.  Meanwhile, dissolve the agar-agar/gelatin in three tablespoon of water.  Pour this gelatin mixture in the ½ cup of water when it comes to boil.  Turn off heat and mix well.  Let it cool.  In a large mixture bowl bend hung curd, cream cheese and condensed milk.  Add the agar-agar after it is not cool and blend well with a hand mixer.  The mixture will be thick.  Now, pour this mixture over the crushed cookies in the baking pan. Cover and refrigerate for at least six hours or till serving time.  Just before serving, top this cheesecake with freshly crumbled Boondi ladoo’s and sliced almonds and pistas.

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