Chanar Payesh Recipe

Name: Chanar Payesh Recipe
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 40 min
Total time: 50 min
Yield: 4
Cuisine: Bengali Recipes
Ingredients: 250 grams Paneer (Homemade Cottage Cheese); 2 cups Milk full cream; 1/3 cup Sugar; 1/2 teaspoon Cardamom Powder (Elaichi); null Saffron strands few strands, soaked in 2 tablespoons milk; 10 null Cashew nuts chopped; 10 null Sultana Raisins; 6 null Whole Almonds (Badam) chopped; Few null Pistachios chopped; null Mixed nuts chopped; null Rose Petals; null Saffron strands

Shaheen Ali

December 5, 2018

4678 Ratings

Time:Prep: 10 M|Cook: 40 M|Total: 50 M

Makes:4 Servings

Meal:Dessert

Cuisine:Bengali Recipes

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).

You will also love other Bengali sweets like

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.

You will also love other Bengali sweets like

Ingredients

To garnish

250 grams Paneer (Homemade Cottage Cheese)

2 cups Milk, full cream

1/3 cup Sugar

1/2 teaspoon Cardamom Powder (Elaichi)

Saffron strands, few strands, soaked in 2 tablespoons milk

10 Cashew nuts, chopped

10 Sultana Raisins

6 Whole Almonds (Badam), chopped

Few Pistachios, chopped

Mixed nuts, chopped

Rose Petals

Saffron strands

Instructions for 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.