Simple Way to Prepare Tasty Chhanar jilipi (Cottage cheese dumplings)
- By Steve Gardner
- 31 Jan, 2020
Chhanar jilipi (Cottage cheese dumplings) Recipe. How to prepare it? What are the ingredients? Cooking tips and more… This is one of my favourite food recipe, this time i’am gonna make it a little bit tasty.
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..
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Ingredients of Chhanar jilipi (Cottage cheese dumplings)
- It’s 150 g of chaana/cottage cheese.
- It’s 4 tbsp of flour/maida.
- It’s 2 tbsp of suji/dry semolina.
- Take 2 tbsp of corn flour.
- Take a pinch of Baking soda.
- Prepare As needed of Oil.
- You need of Sugar.
- Take As needed of Water.
- Take 2-3 of cardamoms.
Instead of simmering in milk I made a white sauce from butter flour milk curry powder saffron salt and pepper.Chanar Jilipi or Chenna Jhilapi or you can also call it as Paneer Jalebi is a sweet made out of fresh cottage cheese i.e Chenna.Though this sweet mainly belongs to Bengal,it is also available in eastern part of Odisha.Being from Odisha, my love for sweets made out of fresh cottage is pretty obvious.
Chhanar jilipi (Cottage cheese dumplings) step by step
- 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.
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.
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.Chanar Payesh is a creamy luscious authentic and traditional Bengali sweet served during special occasions.Chanar Payesh Recipe is popular paneer sweet recipe made by making paneer balls which are dunked in creamy milk.