Recipe: Perfect Chhanar jilipi (Cottage cheese dumplings)

Chhanar jilipi (Cottage cheese dumplings). 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. Chanar Jilipi is a very popular Bengali Sweet from India's eastern state of West Bengal.

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 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. You can have Chhanar jilipi (Cottage cheese dumplings) using 9 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Chhanar jilipi (Cottage cheese dumplings)

1. Prepare 150 g of chaana/cottage cheese.
2. You need 4 tbsp of flour/maida.
3. It's 2 tbsp of suji/dry semolina.
4. Prepare 2 tbsp of corn flour.
5. You need a pinch of Baking soda.
6. You need As needed of Oil.
7. It's of Sugar.
8. It's As needed of Water.
9. You need 2-3 of cardamoms.

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. 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.

Chhanar jilipi (Cottage cheese dumplings) instructions

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.

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