Quiz: Be sure to not miss this 'mishti' quiz!

________ is a traditional Bengali dessert of delicately sweetened curd. Mild, light and extremely addictive, this makes for a great dessert option when entertaining guests over an Indian meal. The sweetness is lent from the lightly caramelised sugar and traditionally the curd is set in earthen pots. Fill in the blank.

This tasty Bengali dessert has a thick creamy consistency and is made with milk, rice, sugar and ghee, along with cardamom, bay leaf, dry fruits and nuts. Variants include gurer _____ which is made with jaggery and chhenar _____ which is made with chhena. Fill in the blanks.

This traditional sweet is made of deep fried cream. Sometimes khoya and chenna are also mixed with it. The preparation of this dish requires expert skills and patience. Name it.

The rice-harvest festival in Bengal, poush sankranti, is celebrated by making the most wondrous of sweets—the pithe. Pithe is no single dish, but a category of sweets that are part of the Bengali cooking tradition. Name this dish which is a type of pithe, which is light crêpe filled with either kheer or a coconut-and-gur mixture.

_____ means raw or uncooked and _____indicates something with a round shape. Fill in both the blanks to give the name of this famous traditional bengali sweet.

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