Chanar Payesh Recipe
Chanar Payesh Recipe is popular paneer sweet recipe made by making paneer balls which are dunked in creamy milk. Make Chanar Payesh and serve as a desert for you next dinner party and wow your guests.
When it comes to sweets, Nothing can beat the taste of Bengali sweets. It doesn't matter that a person is a Bengali or from a different region, Bengali sweets are everyone’s favourite.
These sweets are mostly made from milk and milk products, therefore, it has to be consumed within 1-2 days itself. One such creamy luscious authentic and traditional Bengali sweet served during special occasions is Chanar Payesh. Thick full cream milk, reduced to half it's consistency and cooked with fresh home made cottage cheese dumplings is simply delectable.
Serve Chanar Payesh as a sweet dish during your house parties or during festivals. Serve them at the end of a meal made up of Methi Matar Pulao, Nawabi Kofta Curry Recipe and Beetroot Raita Recipe (Cold Beet & Yogurt Soup/Salad).
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4 Servings
Ingredients
- 250 grams Paneer (Homemade Cottage Cheese)
- 2 cups Milk , full cream
- 1/3 cup Sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon Cardamom (Elaichi) Powder
- Saffron strands , few strands, soaked in 2 tablespoons milk
- 10 Cashew nuts , chopped
- 10 Raisins
- 6 Badam (Almond) , chopped
- Few Pistachios , chopped To garnish
- Mixed nuts , chopped
- Rose Petals
- Saffron strands
How to make Chanar Payesh Recipe
To begin making Chanar Payesh, take fresh paneer in a bowl and mash it well with your hands to make it smooth and moist.
Pinch marble sized chenna and make dumplings out of it and keep them aside.
Boil full cream milk in a thick bottomed pan and reduce it till it turns off white and creamy.
Keep scraping the cream from sides and add into the boiling milk. Add sugar, saffron milk and cardamom powder along with chopped cashews, almonds and pistachios and cook it for another few minutes.
Keep stirring at regular intervals to avoid milk getting burnt.
Once the milk comes to a thick and creamy consistency, slide in the chenna dumplings and cook for another 5-6 mins on a low flame.
Add raisins and turn off the gas keep aside to cool. Refrigerate the payesh and serve chilled.
Serve Chanar Payesh as a sweet dish during your house parties or during festivals. Serve them at the end of a meal made up of Methi Matar Pulao, Nawabi Kofta Curry Recipe and Beetroot Raita Recipe (Cold Beet & Yogurt Soup/Salad).
Shaheen Ali
Born and raised in a gastronomic family where cooking is most relied on approximation and eyeballing the ingredients or ratios and proportions for measurements. A physiotherapist by profession who came into blogging almost a year back with a motive to pen down my experience of learning and refining in the journey with food from home and the world beyond, from street food to the fine dining. I live with a motto in life that is 'Life is beautiful if you have good food around'
