Nolen Gur To Green Chili: Head To These Mishti Places To Celebrate The Roshogolla

Race over to one of Kolkata’s oldest sweet shops and pop a juicy nolen gurer roshogolla as you ponder over the history and the central role this sweet plays in Bengal’s culture. Read about the legal battle with Odisha here.

One of the oldest sweet shops in Kolkata, this legendary outlet was started by 20-year-old Ganesh Chandra Mullick who came to Kolkata from Konnagar in 1885, and now it is a household name. They are the pioneers of the baked rosogolla – soft spongy balls layered with malai rabri.

This iconic store near Park Circus is know for the gurer rosogolla {a spongy ball dipped in mouthwatering nolen gur} and kesar kachagolla.

They say they were the ones to invent the world-famous rosogolla. We don’t know that for sure, but if you’re conscious about the calories but don’t want to miss out on the best rosogollas in town, they have sugar-free ones. While you’re there, also try their rossomalai, rossomadhuri, and kesar raj bhog.

In a funny feature {in The Telegraph} on which sweet is more popular, Tapan Das of the legendary Nalin Chandra Das & Sons had said:“That’s because there are a lot of specifications for making rosogolla. First, it has to be a porous chhana ball with sufficient moisture-containing pores. And the chhana shouldn’t be in a paste form; a little coarseness is necessary. Then you need a sugar syrup, which is 66.6g of sugar in 100ml of water. You have to boil the chhana balls in that syrup at 100 degrees Celsius. If you mix anything like suji or mango pulp with the chhana, the ball will break when tossed into the boiling syrup.”

Read it here.

This gem near Lansdowne Market has over 20 types of flavoured rosogollas mixed with roots, herbs, roots and fruits like pudina, anar, ginger, kesar sardamom, and even green chilli!