Bengali sweets

The Bengali sweets (mishti) tradition of Bengal and Odisha, dominated by chhena (fresh curdled milk) and dairy-based sweets. The signature forms include Rasgulla (invented by Nabin Chandra Das at Kolkata in 1868, with the 1930 Odisha-Bengal GI tag dispute still unresolved — Odisha got GI 2015 for Odisha Rasgulla, Bengal for Bengali rosogolla), Sandesh (dried chhena pressed in traditional pithas), Pantua (deep-fried pre-syruped rasgulla), Mishti doi (sweetened fermented yogurt), Chomchom (oblong boiled chhena balls). The 20-century K.C. Das shop at Kolkata and the Bhapa Pitha winter steamed sweets together carry forward the Bengali-Odiya mishti tradition.