Steps to Make Chhanar Jilapi (Bengali Style Cottage Cheese Jalebi) in 21 Minutes at Home

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Chhanar Jilapi (Bengali Style Cottage Cheese Jalebi) is one of the most popular of current trending meals on earth. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It’s easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. Chhanar Jilapi (Bengali Style Cottage Cheese Jalebi) is something which I’ve loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look wonderful.

Try this recipe at your home. Jilapi/Jalebi is a very popular sweet in South Asian countries. There are many different ways of making jalebis but in this video, I've shared the easiest instant jalebi recipe.

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook chhanar jilapi (bengali style cottage cheese jalebi) using 10 ingredients and 15 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Chhanar Jilapi (Bengali Style Cottage Cheese Jalebi):

1. Prepare 1 litre full fat milk
2. Get 3 tbsp lemon juice
3. Take 2 tbsp maida (all purpose flour)
4. Get 1 tbsp sooji (samolina)
5. Make ready 1/2 tsp baking powder
6. Make ready 2 pinch salt
7. Take 1 pinch saffron soaked in 1 tbsp warm milk
8. Prepare 2 cup sugar
9. Take 3.5 cup water
10. Get As needed oil or ghee for deep frying (you can mix both in equal proportion)

It's a distant cousin of Gulap Jamun ingredient wise and long-lost brother of Jalebi structure wise. The recipe I follow to make is adapted from Amiya Thakur's "Thakurbarir Ranna-Banna" a famous Bengali Cookbook written by a lady from. Step by step recipe for chanar jilapi, a popular iftar item during Ramadan. Chhena jalebi or Chhena jilapi is a sweet dish originally from coastal Odisha in eastern India, a state known for desserts made of chhena.

Instructions to make Chhanar Jilapi (Bengali Style Cottage Cheese Jalebi):

1. Making Chhana (cottage cheese): In a pan, heat the milk and bring it to boil. Turn off the flame.
2. Immediately, add lime juice and mix. You will observe that water starts separating from the fat. Your Chhana (cottage cheese) is done. Let it cool down.
3. Drain the water to get the chhana. Pour the chhana on a cotton cloth and squeeze to drain the excess water.
4. To completely drain the water away, tie the cloth and hand for atleast 1 hour.
5. Making Chhanae Jilapi: Take the chhana in a mixing bowl and knead to a soft and smooth dough.
6. Now, add maida, baking powder, sooji, salt and the saffron soaked milk. Knead the entire thing properly for 10-15 minutes to a soft and smooth dough. Once it does not stick to your hand, the dough is ready.
7. Remember, kneading is the key. The more you knead, the more soft and smooth your jilapi will be.
8. Cover the dough with a cloth and let it rest for 30 minutes.
9. Meanwhile, in a heavy bottom pan, heat water and add sugar. Heat it constantly in high flame until the sugar gets dissolved, water gets reduced and the syrup comes to 1 string.
10. Once the syrup is done, keep it aside and let it cool down a little bit.
11. Now, take the chhana dough and cut small balls from it. The given quantity of ingredients should give you 7-8 pieces of jilapi.
12. With the help of your palm, roll out long ropes out of the chhana balls and swirl them in circular jilapi (jalebi) pattern.
13. Now, heat oil ghee (or both mixed together) in a pan and deep fry the jilapis until they turn reddish brown.
14. Pour the hot jilapis immediately to the syrup once they are fried.
15. Soak the jilapis in syrup for atleast and hour or so. Your Chhanar Jilapi is ready to be served.

Its popularity has spread beyond coastal Odisha, West Bengal and other Eastern regions of the Indian subcontinent. Chhanar Jeelipi is a traditional Bengali sweet that is made from fresh chhena or cottage cheese. The chhena is kneaded (with other ingredients) until a smooth dough is formed, which is then rolled, shaped and deep-fried. Niramish Chanar Korma, Bengali Pure vegetarian Recipe, Chhanar Korma, Bengali Style Cottage Cheese Dumplings in gravy, Chanar Kofta. Gurer Narkel Naru Recipe from Bengal - The most cherished dessert of of every Bengali.

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