Mishti kolkata

Bengali traditional food, especially the yummy mouthwatering sweets are popular all over India. Sweets occupy an important place in the diet of Bengalis and at their social ceremonies. Without sweets their diet will not complete. As we know that Bengalis and Kolkata both are famous for their sweetness, mishti like their sweets and their nature. Therefore every sweets is famous in Kolkata but some of the sweets when we called it known as Bengalis sweets . and they are special in their own way

So let’s taste that some of the famous sweets of Kolkata …..

Shôndesh

 Made from sweetened, finely ground fresh channa shôndesh in all its variants is among the most popular Bengali sweets. The basic shôndesh has been considerably enhanced by the many famous confectioners of Bengal, and now a few hundred different varieties exist, from the simple kachagolla to the complicated abar khabo, jôlbhôra or indrani.

Rôshogolla

Roshogolla is one of the most widely consumed sweets. The basic version has many regional variations. When we talked about Kolkata the first name is come out with our mouth is rassogulla it’s a origin of the Kolkata and the most famous sweet of bengalis . Rôshogolla is one of the three most prominent trademark of Bengali culture (along with Rabindranath Tagore and the festival of Durga Puja) and probably the face of Bengali cuisine to people outside Bengal.

Piţha or pithe

In kolkata the tradition of making different kinds of pan-fried, steamed or boiled sweets, lovingly known as piţhe or the "pitha", still flourishes. These little balls of heaven symbolizes the coming of winter, and the arrival of a season where rich food can be included in the otherwise mild diet of the Bengalis... the richness lie in the creamy silkiness of the milk which is mixed often with molasses, or jaggery made of either date palm or sugarcane, and sometimes sugar. They are mostly divided into different categories based on the way they are created. Generally rice flour goes into making the pithe.  

There are lots of varieties of  sweets which you will get there like chhanar jileepi, kalo jam, darbesh, raghobshai, paesh,bundiya ,nalengurer shôndesh, shor bhaja, and an innumerable variety are just a few examples of sweets in Bengali cuisine.