Chhanar jilipi (Cottage cheese dumplings)
Chhanar jilipi (Cottage cheese dumplings)

Hello everybody, hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, chhanar jilipi (cottage cheese dumplings). It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Chhanar jilipi (Cottage cheese dumplings) is one of the most favored of current trending meals on earth. It is simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It is appreciated by millions daily. Chhanar jilipi (Cottage cheese dumplings) is something that I’ve loved my entire life. They’re 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 first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook chhanar jilipi (cottage cheese dumplings) using 9 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Chhanar jilipi (Cottage cheese dumplings):
  1. Take 150 g chaana/cottage cheese
  2. Prepare 4 tbsp flour/maida
  3. Get 2 tbsp suji/dry semolina
  4. Make ready 2 tbsp corn flour
  5. Take a pinch Baking soda
  6. Make ready As needed Oil
  7. Make ready Sugar
  8. Prepare As needed Water
  9. Take 2-3 cardamoms

Fish Kofta Curry ( Fish dumplings simmered in a ri. Channar Jilipi ( Jalebi made with Indian Cottage. 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.

Steps to make Chhanar jilipi (Cottage cheese dumplings):
  1. 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.
  2. 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
  3. 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
  4. Deep fry in oil until it turns out brownish in colour
  5. 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
  6. Simmer the hot jilipis in the sugar syrup and keep it aside for the jilipis to soak in and serve it hot anytime

But I remembered seeing something called chhanar puli once on a TV show back home. 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. I flavored the cottage cheese with garlic powder salt pepper and italian seasoning.

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