Category: Dairy

Durga Puja is just around the corner and we are super excited! “Bangali manei Pujo, Bangali manei pet puja (Bengalis are synonymous to Durga Pujo, and Bengalis are synonymous to food)!”

As the air fills up with the smell of Shiuli ‘Phool (flower)’, the ‘Kash Phool (Kans Grass)’ pops up here and there, Bengal gets decked up to celebrate its most extravagant event of the year. As is ritual, pandals across the state and especially in Kolkata will get flooded with enthusiastic pandal hoppers and evenings will end with joyous get-togethers. Family and friends will return to the city and guests will start pouring into your home. Wouldn’t it be nice if you could treat them to something traditional yet something homemade?

This Durga Puja, pleasantly surprise your guests with some of Bengal’s best desserts made at home. All you need are packs of Keventer Metro Cow Milk or Keventer Metro Rich Milk and a few basic ingredients.

Before you start making these sweet Bengali milk dishes, the first thing you need to do is boil the milk and add some lemon juice or vinegar to make some ‘chhena (cottage cheese)’. Hang the ‘chhena’ in a cotton cloth and let the water drain out. There! Your key ingredient is ready for one…two…three.. oh so many easy DIY Bengali sweets!

Begin with the ‘Roshogolla’. Yes! Bangalis don’t call it Rasgulla because they fill the sweet with the ‘Rosh of labh (the syrup of love)’! The art of making it right, lies in kneading the ‘chhena’ right and turning it into perfectly round balls. Boil it in some thick syrup made of sugar and water, and you’re done!

Don’t forget to try the Chhanar payesh – the traditional Bengali kheer made with cottage cheese and thick cow milk.

If you want to appear all fancy, Sandesh is your next level up. BTW, Kalakand isn’t as tough to make as you think.

However, if you do not want to go through the trouble of making cottage cheese but still prepare a delicious sweet dish at home, we have another milk recipe up our sleeve! Simply make the Chaaler Payesh (traditional Bengali Kheer made of rice).

Which one of these special Durga Puja desserts will you try this festive season? Whichever idea you go for don’t forget to shop for Keventer Metro Cow Milk or Keventer Metro Rich Milk from Blinkit.

Mishti Doi plays a vital role in many Bengali celebrations, but during Durga Puja, it takes the centre stage as the most beloved dessert. This sweet yoghurt, traditionally set in earthen pots, boasts of a creamy texture and a delightful sweetness no other version of curd, yoghurt, or even frozen yoghurt can offer.

It is an age-old traditional practice in Bengali households to carry huge earthen post of Mishti Doi when visiting friends or family, during Durga Puja. The dessert acts as a befitting gift, fostering joyous moments of togetherness, whether on Sashti, when the Puja’s begin, or on Bijoya Dashami, when the celebrations come to an end.

This sweet yoghurt bears religious significance too. Mishti Doi is offered to the deity as a part of ritualistic practices with utmost reverence. It is a cultural tradition to serve Mishti Doi as the dessert at the end of the traditional ‘Bhog’ organised in Puja pandals. Walk into a pandal on a lazy Durga Puja afternoon and you’ll witness someone or the other from the pandal locality, sitting on a typical plastic chair, and relishing a Keventer Metro Mishti Doi cup with not a care in the world!

And that is how every Durga Puja celebration is meant to be—sweet, refreshing, and a much-awaited break from the monotony of daily life. However, what is strange to notice is that a practice which started eons ago, continues to sustain even after years of modernisation. From Baby Boomers to Gen Alpha, this sweet yoghurt has a huge fan following across generations!

So, as you step into this year’s festivities, don’t forget to add Keventer Metro Mishti Doi to your special Durga Puja food menu whether as a traditional practice or simply because you love this delight! Buy it from your nearest grocery store and give all your grand puja feasts a sweet ending.

We took a little longer to write this blog because while we were at it, we could literally feel our mouths water. Yes! These special lassi variants are that yum! Best part? They are super easy to make too! So put your apron on, and grab a Keventer Metro Classic Lassi and a Keventer metro Mango Lassi to churn up something deliciously different!

Hari Bhari Pudina Lassi – Got 5 minutes? Then you’ve got this Lassi too! Throw in a cup of fresh pudina (mint) leaves into a blender and add half a cup of Keventer Metro Classic Lassi to it. Blend till the mixture is smooth. Now add another half of Keventer Metro Classic Lassi and beat up the mixture with a spoon. Pour it in a glass, add some ice, and garnish with a spring of mint. Done!

Aam Raseela Lassi – If you thought the previous recipe was easy-breezy, wait until you read this one! Simply pour Keventer Metro Mango Lassi in a glass, add some ice and then, add some freshly chopped Himsagar/Alphonso mango cubes. Drum roll! It’s ready! For added zing, fell free to add a pinch of red chilli powder to your lassi. Also, don’t forget to cut a slice of mango, dip it into some red chilli powder and salt, and garnish you glass with it. Now that’s what we call an Aam Raseela Lassi!

Two-in-One Mango Dhamaka – This lassi might take a little longer to make, but trust us, you’ll love the taste! Firstly, pour Keventer Metro Mango Lassi into an ice cube tray and let it freeze in the refrigerator for at least two hours. Once the cubes are frozen, take a tall glass and pour some mango syrup into it in a fashion that the syrup slides down against the body of the glass. Now start swirling the glass so that the mango drizzle forms a pattern against the glass’ body. Next, pour Keventer Metro Classic Lassi into the glass. This time, instead of adding ice cubes, simply add the frozen cubes of Keventer Metro Mango Lassi into it. Slurp it up with a straw and have a lassi-licious time!

If you too have some innovative Lassi recipes up your sleeve, don’t forget to share them with us in the ‘comments’ section. Meanwhile, to try out these recipes at home, grab Keventer Metro Classic Lassi and Keventer Metro Mango Lassi from your nearest store or shopkeventer.com.

When, in the award-winning Bengali movie, ‘Harmonium’, veteran actor, Kali Banerjee’s character told Santosh Dutta, “Dekhun, khei bole debo kothakar doi (I can tell you where you’ve got this curd from just from its taste),” he wasn’t bluffing! That’s the insane love Bengali’s have for Mishti Doi (Sweet Curd). A speciality from Bengal, Mishti Doi has witnessed many an important occasion in every Bengali’s life, adding a special sweetness to those moments.

It all begins with ‘Mukhe Bhaat’ or ‘Annaprashan’, the Bengali ceremony that celebrates the first day when a baby has his or her first solid food. The royal event sees relatives, friends and family rejoice over a grand feast that most definitely ends with some Rosogollas and heaped spoonfuls of the Mishti Doi.

As years pass by and the Bengali immerses himself or herself into traditional occasions and rituals, he or she develops a deep fondness for the Mishti Doi. The Durga Pujas commence year after year and the ‘bhog’ at the thematic ‘pandals’ end with a serving of this delicacy. In fact, it is quite common to find people from the ‘para’ asking for an extra cup of Keventer Metro Mishti Doi even after they’ve had two or three cups already! The sweet dessert is indeed the Bengali’s sweet weakness!

Some Bengali’s don’t even wait for the year’s biggest gala, to have their beloved sweet dish. Any get-together, and there you go! You have a traditional Bengali sweet and a cup of Mishti Doi ready to be served as the dessert that brings the feast to a befitting end. When afternoons in Bengal see the scorching sun, overhead, get the better of a person’s health, many people resort to a lunch of rice and curd to keep the body cool. However, for those who steer clear of anything sour, Mishti Doi comes as a welcome respite. Many a times, out comes a pack of Keventer Metro Mishti Doi from the fridge and the Bengali savours every bit of his or her lunch in the sultry weather.

When the Bengali decides to tie the knot, the Mishti Doi makes another gala appearance. Perhaps, if we could imagine the dessert as a person, we’d find him smiling broadly. The Mishti Doi would clearly be proud of its overwhelming importance in a Bengali wedding.

Through the years that unfold, the Bengali, born with a sweet tooth, finds excuses to dig deep into the Mishti Doi, till it’s time for another ‘Annaprashan’, and the circle of life is complete. In fact, so much is the deliciousness of this delight that its fan following has gone beyond the Bengali and spread across the entire world. The Mishti Doi is a star in its own right!

And when the most delicious of all Mishti Doi-s comes packed in convenient little cups, that can be stored in the fridge, Bengali’s happiness soars in leaps and bounds. The Keventer Metro Mishti Doi finds its place in every household to become a part of Bengali’s most cherished memories and an indispensable part of his/her life.

“Aaaah! Cha ta kheye ektu shanti pelam (I’ve finally found some peace after drinking this tea),” Subhankar Biswas heaves a sigh of relief. He had been taking a short evening break from work at the roadside tea-stall below his office building, with his colleague. As he expresses his satisfaction at having drunk his favourite beverage, his colleague nods in approval, “Doodh Cha ta kintu ekhane fatafati banaye (The milk tea here is truly awesome)!”

The quintessential Bengali, or let’s say, ‘Bangali’, holds an indomitable love for the ‘Doodh Cha’ or milk tea. Though the more sophisticated part of this emotional, poetic, and intellectual section of the society would show its preference for the Darjeeling Tea brewed at the perfect temperature and served unadulterated by milk or sugar, the majority of this culture would swear by the thick, milky concoction to be their first love.

Once the sun rises in the east, the Bangali needs his or her cup of favourite tea to rise up from bed and prepare for the grueling day ahead. The Doodh Cha is an inevitable part of the Bangali’s mornings. However, that’s not all. Chai breaks are those little moments that keeps the Bangali up and running throughout the day. Like drops of elixir, the Doodh Cha keeps the Bangali motivated and assiduous!

And the Bangali picks up this love for the milk tea, young. It begins with long hours spent in the canteen with friends for ‘adda’, perhaps with some guitar-strumming of popular Bengali songs, and evolves into those chit-chats with like-minded people in a roadside shanty during breaks at work. Without the Doodh Cha, the newspaper in the morning doesn’t read that interesting. Nor do those post office debates, on political issues, with ‘para’ friends, have enough fire. The evening get-togethers don’t seem warm enough and lone moments spent listening to Kishore Kumar or Hemanta Mukhopadhyay lack emotion.

But what really makes this Doodh Cha Bangali’s forever mate?

Interestingly enough, it is not just tea leaves that add flavour to this daily delight, but also the quality of milk used to prepare it. The richer and thicker the milk, the more delicious the concoction. Additional flavouring may be done by adding sugar to taste, and some basic condiments like ginger (Ada Cha), cardamom (Elaichi Cha), or spices such as clove, pepper, and cinnamon (Masala Cha). However, the milk remains the most vital ingredient of the Doodh Cha (Err… that is exactly why it is known as the Milk Tea).

Achieving perfection in making this delight at home is no mean task at all. All you need is some CTC tea and Keventer Metro Rich Milk. Heat the milk in a pan till it bubbles, add some sugar to taste, and add some tea. Switch the gas off and let the tea brew in the milk. Pour it through a strainer and enjoy with some biscuits, ‘pakodas’, or chops.

With Keventer Metro Rich Milk as your base, this Doodh Cha is going to be way creamier than you can imagine! So, visit shopkeventer.com or your nearest grocery store to grab our Keventer Metro Milk and indulge the Bangali inside you with the heart-warming taste of the Doodh Cha!