Chanar Payesh | Cottage Cheese Pudding
Chanar payesh is a traditional Bengali sweet dish in which chana (soft cottage cheese or paneer) is cooked in thick milk with sugar or condensed milk.
Yield: 4 people
Equipment
- Heavy Bottom Pan
Materials
- 200 gms Paneer or Chana or Chenna
- 1.5 litre Milk
- 1 cup Sugar
- 1 no Bay Leaf
- ½ teaspoon Cardamom Powder
- 2 tablespoon Pista or Cashew Crushed
Instructions
- Cut paneer or chana into small cubes. Alternatively, you can mash the paneer or make small balls using mashed paneer or chana and keep aside.
- Boil milk in a heavy bottom pan adding a bay leaf and reduce it to almost half.
- While reducing the milk, keep scraping the cream from sides and add into boiling milk.
- Once the milk is reduced add sugar and stir until sugar dissolves.
- Next add chana into milk and boil for 2-3 minutes.
- Switch off the gas and sprinkle cardamom powder.
- Add crushed nuts and allow it to cool. Later refrigerate it for half an hour and serve chilled.
Notes
- Do not add chana before adding sugar, milk might curdle.
- You can adjust the amount of sugar according to your taste bud.
- You can also use condensed milk instead of sugar.
- If you love cardamom, you can add whole cardamom while reducing the milk.
- You can also add raisins or nuts according to your choice.