Chanar Payesh / ছানার পায়েস

Chanar Payesh – An Authentic Bengali Dessert

Chanar Payesh is an authentic Bengali dessert . It is an exotic and classic sweet dish recipe of Bengali cuisine . We make it for our family and friends on special occasions and festivals. This dish is made using chhena or freshly made cottage cheese, milk, sugar, and crushed green cardamom powder .These few ingredients create the taste and flavour of this mouth-watering dish. In Bengal, we make sweet specially with chana or chena or sweetened cottage chees. In this recipe small chana or chena balls are simmmered in cardamom flavoured thickened milk .

“Bijoya Dashami” ….. The Last  Day Of Durga Puja

Durga Puja is the main festival of West Bengal,  the greatest festival of  Bengali ended with the solemn immersion of Goddess Durga idols. This day is popular as “Bijoya Dashami ” to each Bengali of the World. We spent this day by going through different rituals . All ladies assemble near the  Durga idol, apply vermilion on her feet and  forehead and then smear vermillion on each other. We wish each other on Bijoya Dashami saying  ‘Shubho Bijoya”. After the immersion of idol or visarjan , we touch ours elder’s feet for blessings , same generation males hugging each other which we call “kolakuli”,  visit friends and relatives’ houses and exchange ‘Shubho Bijoya’ greetings .

Sweet…. a must needed item to celebrate “Bijoya Dashami”

This celebration is not complete without sweet. Earlier, elders ladies of the joint family  used to make various kinds of sweets together such as narkel naru , payesh amd many more . Now it is not possible to make all sweets together, as many of us live in a nuclear family . So now we try to make one or two items to celebrate this festival. I have prepared “Çhanar Payesh” to celebrate this auspicious day. Try following few Bengali Sweet Recipes at home and enjoy with your loved ones!

Chanar Payesh / ছানার পায়েস

Moumita Chanar Payesh – An Authentic Bengali Dessert Chanar Payesh is an authentic Bengali dessert .… Recipes sweets, bengalisweet, festivesweet, chanarpaysh, paneerkheer Bengali Print This

Serves: 2 Prep Time: 10Minutes Cooking Time: 30 Minutes 30 Minutes

Nutrition facts: 200 calories 20 grams fat

Rating: 5.0/5

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Ingredients

1. Milk- 1litre ( for making chana )
2. Milk-2 ltr ( for making payesh or kheer )
3. Lemon Juice or Vinegar -4 teaspoons ( if required , add more )
4.  Sugar ( powdered ) -2 tablespoons
5. Sugar ( normal )-3/4 cup
6. Green Cradamoms – 4 ( crushed )
7. Rose Water – 2 teaspoons

Instructions

1. Take a heavy bottomed vessel , add milk 1 litre milk for chana balls  .
2. Bring it to boil and keep stirring to avoid burning of milk from bottom .
3. Once the milk will be started boling ,  simmer the gas , start adding the lemon juice or vinegar and keep stirring ( if required , add more lemon juice ) , cook for few seconds until the milk solids get separate from the whey . Switch off the heat .
4. Pour this curdled milk to the already lined muslin cloth over a strainer , squeeze out all the whey water then rinse it as much as possible . If you do not rinse the chana properly , you will get the smell of lemon while having it.
5. Now hang the cloth covered chana with the kitchen tap for 30 minutes . Then remove it from tap and place a heavy weight on chena for another 30 minutes . It will help to squeeze more water from chana .
6. In the meantime , take a heavy bottomed vessel , add 2 litres milk for payesh .
7. Bring it to boil , when milk will be started boiling , simmer the gas , add crushed cardamom .
8. Let it cook till reduced to half the original quantity , stirring in between .
9. After that , remove the cloth from the chana .
10. The chana neither should have too much moisture nor be too dry .
11. Take the chana in a wider plate , rub it well with your palms for 5 to 6 minutes to get smooth texture .
12. Add sugar and rose water with the chana .
13. Make small tiny tiny balls using these chana .
14. Drop chana balls one by one into the milk carefully .
15. Cook for another 5 minutes on low flame . Some balls will be broken , if they are not broken , break some balls with back of spoon .
16. Switch off the flame , let it be cool and serve

Notes

If you do not have time , then you can make it using store bought paneer .