Kalakand

Kalakand is a sweet cheese confection from India. It has been described as "akin to Italian cheesecake, firmer in texture than milk cake, but softer than burfis."

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Prepared food.name: Kalakand
Prepared food.image: Koderma Kalakand.jpg
Prepared food.caption: Kalakand from Koderma, India
Prepared food.region: Indian subcontinent
Prepared food.course: Dessert
Prepared food.main_ingredient: Chhena, milk, water, sugar, ghee or butter, pistachios
Prepared food.country: India

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Subclass of: food
Has part: milk
Country of origin: India
Image: Kalakand of Salem.jpg

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Kalakand is a sweet cheese confection from India. It has been described as "akin to Italian cheesecake, firmer in texture than milk cake, but softer than burfis."

==History== The earliest mention of kalakand as a sweet appears in the 19th-century Urdu text Zīnat al-ʿarūs. However, contemporary sources state that kalakand was invented in the Baba Thakur Das & Sons halwai (confectioner) shop in Alwar, Rajasthan in 1947, where it is still sold today.

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