Name: Misthi Doi recipe by litushree Pradhan at BetterButter
Prep time: 600 min
Cook time: 15 min
Total time: 615 min
Yield: 6
Ingredients: 1 liter fully fat milk; 1 cup brown sugar; 4 green Cardamom crushed; 3 tbsp Curd

ABOUT Misthi Doi RECIPE

Misti Doi are very popular in Odisha and West Bengal, specially during summer's.Though the origin is from West Bengal ,but it's equally popular in Odiya crowd too!.We called it as "Meetha Dahi". Meetha Dahi is prepared by boiling milk until it is slightly thickened, sweetening it with sugar, either gura (brown sugar) or khejur gura (date molasses), and allowing the milk to ferment overnight.

Instructions

Heat the milk in a heavy based pan and reduce it to 1/3rd its quantity
Add the brown sugar and crushed cardamom to the boiling milk and stir well.Cook for another 5 minutes and cool down(it should be Luke warm which means, if you dip your finger in the milk, your finger should feel comfortably warm but not hot)
now add 3 tablespoons curd to warm milk mixture and mix very well and make sure curd dissolves in the milk.
Transfer the mixture to earthen pot, terracotta bowls or earthen handi.Andcover with a lid or seal with aluminium foil.Keep in a warm place for the meetha dahi to set.
It may take to 24 hours to set according to the weather in your city.Once set, refrigerat and serve chilled.

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