Mishti Doi of Kolkata

oh Calcutta!! i miss it SO much. it was the first time i was at Calcutta last december and i just fell in love with the city. of course the major attraction was definitely the food, specially the variety of sweets & puchkas...yum yum yum, but also the simplicity and a general feel of that city hit me. when i came back to pune, it was the first time that i was not happy coming back home. i wanted to go back. just waiting for my next trip there.
i ate many sweets and puchkas in Calcutta and after coming back had been craving madly for them. what to do? best option was to try them at home and i did. first i attacked the puchkas. though i have been making golgappas at home regularly but Calcutta puchka took my breath away; literally :D and i have quite perfected the recipe thanks to Shivi. will share the recipe soon once i take some nice pictures. every time i make them i cannot think of anything else before i finish the last bit and so have missed taking pictures. in Calcutta too i missed taking pictures while enjoying some of those heavenly puchkas and mishti doi and rosogullas and sandesh and...who could think of pictures in those delicious moments! (some of the pictures shared here are picked up from the net)
yesterday i tried mishti doi and it came out perfect! i even called Shivi to taste and approve and she did (yippee!) here is the recipe if you want to try out. it is super simple.
ingredients: a litre of fresh full cream buffalo milk, 8 tbsps of sugar/patali gur if you can manage, 2 tsp of curd(should not be sour). preparation: boil milk, add half the sugar and let it simmer on slow gas till it becomes half. meanwhile add a tbsp of water to rest of sugar and mix in a thick bottomed pan on slow fire till it become brown. be careful that it does not burn. add this to the milk and allow it to cool. the colour of milk will change to light brown. once it reaches luke warm stage, add the curd, mix well, pour in a matki if you have and let it set. can take 5-7 hrs depending on weather. once set keep it in the fridge for another 5-7 hrs. serve chilled. tastes absolutely heavenly. slurp slurp slurp.