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

Hello everybody, it is Brad, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, chhanar jilipi (cottage cheese dumplings). It is one of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Chhanar jilipi (Cottage cheese dumplings) is one of the most favored of recent trending meals in the world. It is enjoyed by millions every day. It’s simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. They are nice and they look fantastic. Chhanar jilipi (Cottage cheese dumplings) is something that I have loved my entire life.

Comfort food for when I have dumplings leftover from my cream of chicken and dumplings soup. See recipes for Chhanar jilipi (Cottage cheese dumplings) too. Great with a mozzarella grilled cheese sandwich.

To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have chhanar jilipi (cottage cheese dumplings) using 9 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Chhanar jilipi (Cottage cheese dumplings):
  1. Prepare 150 g chaana/cottage cheese
  2. Get 4 tbsp flour/maida
  3. Take 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. Get Sugar
  8. Get As needed Water
  9. Take 2-3 cardamoms

Chanar Jilipi is one of the popular Bengali recipes which is also known as Paneer Jalebi. Prepared using full cream milk, lemon juice, and all purpose flour, this dessert recipe is truly delicious and mouth-watering. Try these cottage cheese swirls dipped in sugar syrup on festivals and special occasions and enjoy with your loved ones. Chanar Jilapi is a popular Bengali Delicacy and is the Chana-fied version of Jalebi or Jilapi.

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

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. Maa Kaali, the fierce incarnation the Durga, is worshipped on the Kartik Amavasya night in Bengal. While Ma Kaali is worshipped in Bengal, on the same day, Diwali is celebrated in the rest of the country and Goddess Lakshmi is worshipped in most homes of North, South and Western India. Chhanar Jilipi is a local variation of one of the country's most popular sweets - the jalebi. See recipes for Chhanar jilipi (Cottage cheese dumplings) too.

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