Hello everybody, it’s Brad, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, chhanar jilipi (cottage cheese dumplings). One of my favorites. This time, I will make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Chhanar jilipi (Cottage cheese dumplings) is one of the most well liked of recent trending meals on earth. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. It is easy, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. Chhanar jilipi (Cottage cheese dumplings) is something which I’ve loved my whole life. They are fine and they look fantastic.
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.
To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook chhanar jilipi (cottage cheese dumplings) using 9 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Chhanar jilipi (Cottage cheese dumplings):
- Take 150 g chaana/cottage cheese
- Make ready 4 tbsp flour/maida
- Get 2 tbsp suji/dry semolina
- Get 2 tbsp corn flour
- Prepare a pinch Baking soda
- Get As needed Oil
- Take Sugar
- Prepare As needed Water
- Prepare 2-3 cardamoms
Being from Odisha, my love for sweets made out of fresh cottage is pretty obvious. 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.
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
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. Chanar Jilapi is a popular sweet from the cuisine of Bengal. Nolen Gurer Bhapa Sandesh (Steamed Cottage Cheese Fudge with Date Palm Jaggery). Chhanar Jilipi, paneer caressed with oodles of love, fried in ghee over a lazy languorous flame and soaked in sugar syrup.
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