Muktagasar Monda (Sweetmeat) মুক্তাগাছার মন্ডা

 Muktagasar Monda (Sweetmeat)

Monda means Muktagasar Monda (Sweetmeat). Monda is an elite type of sweets. It is rare that someone from the country and abroad did not eat or take Monda when they came to Muktagacha, Mymensing. Almost 200 years of tradition. 

Muktagasar Monda (Sweetmeat) মুক্তাগাছার মন্ডা

Origin: 

In early 1824, this traditional Monda (Sweet) was made by a person named Ram Gopal Pal and served in the house of Suryakant Acharya Choudhury, the Zamindar of Muktagacha in the Mymensingh district of Bangladesh. And the Zamindar was so amused by eating this Monda that he continued to spread its reputation around. Since then Monda has held its place as the traditional dessert of Bangladesh in the hands of the same family. It is said that Ram Gopal Pal got the recipe of this Monda through sleeping Dream.

Ingredients: 

5 kilogram pure cow milk, 500 g sugar, 1 cardamom powder (recipe for making 1 Kilogram Monda)

Preparation: 

Strain the milk well and put it in the oven. Simmer on medium flame for 40-50 minutes. Care should be taken that the milk doesn't turn brown. To cook chickpeas in hot milk, add chickpea water in quantity or add 5 tablespoons of lemon juice to one spoonful and stir gently for 4-5 minutes. Now when the Milk Chaana is done, separate it and wrap it in a thin cotton cloth. Now take the Milk Chaana from the cloth in a big bowl and mix the Chaana well. Now make a vein with sugar in a pan and stir it with cardamom powder for 1-2 minutes. Then add Chaana and stir for 10 to 15 minutes on low flame. Now pour the mixed Chaana in a large bowl and cool it. In a separate container, make small balls of 20/25 grams. Finally, in another bowl, take two pieces of balls  and mix them in the desired size and make delicious Monda.

Test taken by:

Ustad Alauddin Khan, Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose, China's Mao Setong, Ayub Khan, public leader Mao Bhasani, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib, national hero Ziaur Rahman and others have tasted this delicious manda and praised it. Let's see for ourselves the delicious Manda.