Hello everybody, hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, chhanar jilipi (cottage cheese dumplings). It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
A traditional Bengali sweet chhanar jilipi are melts in mouth delights made of cottage cheese or paneer. It's very easy to make and a very delicious sweet. Chana ( or Chena) or Cottage Cheese is the core ingredient for making sweets in Bengal ( both West Bengal and Bangladesh) and this Jilapi/ Jalebi prepared with Chana is amazing to taste.
Chhanar jilipi (Cottage cheese dumplings) is one of the most well liked of current trending meals on earth. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. It is simple, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. Chhanar jilipi (Cottage cheese dumplings) is something which I’ve loved my entire life. They are fine and they look wonderful.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have chhanar jilipi (cottage cheese dumplings) using 9 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Chhanar jilipi (Cottage cheese dumplings):
- Prepare 150 g chaana/cottage cheese
- Get 4 tbsp flour/maida
- Take 2 tbsp suji/dry semolina
- Get 2 tbsp corn flour
- Take a pinch Baking soda
- Make ready As needed Oil
- Make ready Sugar
- Prepare As needed Water
- Get 2-3 cardamoms
Coming to the recipe, chhanar jilipi (Cottage Cheese funnel cake) is a very famous Bong sweet or dessert. That's the recipe I had seen in the magazine. But I remembered seeing something called chhanar puli once on a TV show back home. Fresh cottage cheese pritzel shaped unique and popular Bengali dessert dipped in light sugar syrup.
Steps to make Chhanar jilipi (Cottage cheese dumplings):
- To make chaana boil milk and add lemon juice on it until the milk separates, and pour the residue/chaana in a clean cloth and tie it until all the water drains out.
- Knead the chaana/cottage cheese with maida,corn flour and baking soda,sugar a pinch until it becomes a smooth paste,consistency should be very fine no lumps
- Take small batches out of the mixture and and roll it pin shape then into a semi-circle with both the side tucked in,thus making many jilipis
- Deep fry in oil until it turns out brownish in colour
- In a separate pan take water and plenty of sugar and bring it to boil until thickness develops and it turns into syrup, put some cardamoms in it
- Simmer the hot jilipis in the sugar syrup and keep it aside for the jilipis to soak in and serve it hot anytime
It differs from Gulab Jamun as it does not use Khoya (milk solid). Chenna Jhilapi or Chanar Jilipi is a very popular desert in the Eastern states of Odisha and Bengal. Chenna or Paneer or Cottage Cheese is the quintessential ingredient for most of the Odia desserts and is an integral part of Odia cuisine. I flavored the cottage cheese with garlic powder salt pepper and italian seasoning. Instead of simmering in milk I made a white sauce from butter flour milk curry powder saffron salt and pepper.
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