Buffalo Milk Sandesh

Sandesh occupies a prominent place among indigenous milk products and carries lot of market potential. Sandesh is the most popular chhana based sweet delicacy of the eastern part of India particularly in West Bengal and Bangladesh. Certain alteration is necessary in the processing technique for conversion of buffalo milk to obtain good quality chhana thereby good quality Sandesh. Some of the treatments which can be adopted are adjustment in fat percent of milk, adjustment in salt balance of buffalo milk, homogenization of milk, change in the coagulation temperature, etc. In India, buffalo milk account for over 55 percent of the country's total milk production. So, the main source of marketable surplus is buffalo milk. In recent years, there has been growing interest in the manufacture of Sandesh and other chhana based product from cow and buffalo milk.