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

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Chhanar jilipi (Cottage cheese dumplings) is one of the most popular of recent trending foods in the world. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. It’s simple, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. Chhanar jilipi (Cottage cheese dumplings) is something which I have loved my entire life. They are nice and they look wonderful.

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.

To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook chhanar jilipi (cottage cheese dumplings) using 9 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook that.

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

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. Add the lemon juice to curdle and make the chana / chenna / cottage cheese. Keep it in the strainer or hang it in a muslin cloth to drain the water well. But don't make it too dry.

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

It should have some water left in it. Heat the water and sugar in a heavy pan till sugar dissolves and the water comes to a boil. One of my indulgences, I must confess, when rainy days and Mondays get me down, guaranteed to elevate me from my grumpy lows is this sinful little piece of sweetmeat. Chhanar Jilipi / Chhena Jalebi - Fried sweetmeat made of cottage cheese drunken with sugar syrup This post is late by more than a week. See recipes for Chhanar jilipi (Cottage cheese dumplings) too.

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