- You could make cottage cheese (Chena) at home or use ready made cottage cheese. If you want to make chena at home . Take 1ltr milk and place for boiling . Once it reaches it's boiling point add 1 tbsp vinegar or 1/2 lime juice .
- The milk will start to curdle . Switch off and keep aside for 5 minutes . Now starin this mixture over a line cloth . Collect the milk and a place a heavy weight over it for 2 hours .
- Your chena is ready to be used . You could use the whey for kneading the dough.
- For Gulab Jamuns sift all ingredients like flour , milk powder , salt and baking powder . Also add cardamom powder , khoya and cottage cheese.
- Now add clarified butter , hot milk , saffron and pinch of salt . Knead into a soft and smooth dough . Add little more milk if dough is too dry .
- Divide into 20 balls and cover with a damp cloth . Meanwhile let's make our sugar syrup .
- Boil water with sugar in a pan . I have used organic sugar hence couldn't find scum then remove it with the help of spoon .
- Cook syrup on low heat until it's thickened reaches thread like consistency .
- Now add pistachio , vetiver essence and talking flakes to the syrup .
- Take a deep pan add oil . Once oil is hot , fry the balls until golden brown from all sides . Remove the fried balls with slotted spoon .
- Place them over absorbent napkins for 2 minutes . Transfer these fried balls over the warm sugar syrup one by one .
- Leave the balls into the syrup for 2 hrs or until they absorb the water and swells . Serve them warm or chilled
Paneer Jamun
By Richik Chatterjee
Mar, 25th
699
Servings
4 persons
Cook Time
25 minutes
Ingredients
14
- 16
Ingredients
- Oil
- Cottage Cheese
- Milk Powder
- Cardamom Powder
- Khoya/Mava
- Milk
- Clarified Butter(Ghee)
- Refined Flour
- Baking Powder
- Salt
- Sugar
- Water
- Vetiver Essence ( Kewra )
- Pistachio Flakes
- Almond Flakes
- Saffron Strands
Instructions
Notes/Tips
It's important to soak the fried balls into the sugar syrup while it's hot . Don't fry the balls over heat else they might get burnt . You could use home made cottage cheese or store once . But they should be soft and hot hard . It's crucial for the dough to be soft and smooth .
