Chena Poda - Odia Burnt Cheese Cake

Name: Chena Poda - Odia Burnt Cheese Cake
Total time: 2700 s
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: Indian
Ingredients: 1.5 ltr Milk; 1/2 cup curd / 1 lemon; 1/2 cup sugar; 1/4 cup semolina/ sooji; 1/4 cup mix nuts ( almonds, cashews, raisins; 2 tbsp desi ghee; 1/2 cardamom powder; 1 cup salt for baking in kadhai/ cooker

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Chena Poda is an Odia dessert recipe which means burnt cheese. It is also offered to Lord Vishnu in Jagganath Temple.

#goldenapron2
#Odisha
#week2
#ilovecooking
#paneer

Chena Poda is an Odia dessert recipe which means burnt cheese. It is also offered to Lord Vishnu in Jagganath Temple.

Vaishali Chhabra - Food marvels With VC @foodmarvelsvc

Noida

#goldenapron2
#Odisha
#week2
#ilovecooking
#paneer

Chena Poda is an Odia dessert recipe which means burnt cheese. It is also offered to Lord Vishnu in Jagganath Temple.

#goldenapron2
#Odisha
#week2
#ilovecooking
#paneer

Chena Poda is an Odia dessert recipe which means burnt cheese. It is also offered to Lord Vishnu in Jagganath Temple.

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Ingredients

45 mins

4 servings

1.5 ltrMilk
1/2 cupcurd / 1 lemon
1/2 cupsugar
1/4 cupsemolina/ sooji
1/4 cupmix nuts ( almonds, cashews, raisins
2 tbspdesi ghee
1/2cardamom powder
1 cupsalt for baking in kadhai/ cooker

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Steps

45 mins

1

Take milk in a deep vessel and bring it to a boil.
2

When milk starts boiling, add juice of one lemon mixed with 2 tbsp water / 1/2 cup dahi in parts to the milk and keep stirring.
3

After a few minutes of stirring, milk will start curdling.
4

Strain the mixture and take chena (paneer) in a separate bowl. Don't squeeze all the water out.
5

Add sugar, semolina in the mixture and give it a thorough mix
6

Now add 1 tbsp desi ghee,nuts, cardamon powder. Add some whey if the mixture is dry and mix till everything is combined well.
7

In a deep kadhai/ cooker put salt and let it heat for 10 minutes
8

Grease a cake tin/ any steel container and pour the chena mixture in it.
9

After preheating the kadhai, put a stand and pur container over it. Cover and let it bake for about 30.35 minutes
10

Demould once cool enough to touch.Garnish with some nuts and cardamon.