Chhena Poda

Name: Chhena Poda
Total time: 4200 s
Yield: 5-6 people
Cuisine: Indian
Ingredients: 250 gm fresh paneer (I use store brought you can make it home 🏠 with 2 liters milk 🥛); 1/2 cup sugar (you can use jaggery also); 1/2 tsp cardamom powder; 3/4 tbsp fine semolina (you can grind in mixer if you have moti suji); 2 tbsp chopped nuts.. cashew nut + almonds + pistachios; 2 tsp ghee

Alka Bhandari @alka020567

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A popular cake-like sweet from Odisha made with fresh paneer and you can made healthier with the addition of jaggery also instead of sugar
Chhena poda is very easy to make and is made during festive occasion like Diwali

Chhena poda literally means Baked Cheese in Odia. It is made of well-kneaded homemade fresh/ store brought chhena, sugar, semolina, and is baked until it browns.

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Chhena poda literally means Baked Cheese in Odia. It is made of well-kneaded homemade fresh/ store brought chhena, sugar, semolina, and is baked until it browns.

Alka Bhandari @alka020567

#CA2025

Chhena poda literally means Baked Cheese in Odia. It is made of well-kneaded homemade fresh/ store brought chhena, sugar, semolina, and is baked until it browns.

#CA2025

Chhena poda literally means Baked Cheese in Odia. It is made of well-kneaded homemade fresh/ store brought chhena, sugar, semolina, and is baked until it browns.

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Ingredients

1 hr 10 minutes + cooling time

5-6 people

250 gmfresh paneer (I use store brought you can make it home 🏠 with 2 liters milk 🥛)
1/2 cupsugar (you can use jaggery also)
1/2 tspcardamom powder
3/4 tbspfine semolina (you can grind in mixer if you have moti suji)
2 tbspchopped nuts.. cashew nut + almonds + pistachios
2 tspghee

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Steps

1 hr 10 minutes + cooling time

1

Grate paneer & take in a bowl. Boil milk. Switch off gas. Add lemon juice, little at a time. Stir. Milk will curdle immediately. Keep stirring for a few seconds. Strain the curdle milk (if you are making chhena @ home 🏠)
2

Add sugar & mash it with hands till fluffy like cake batter or you can beat with fork / cake beater
3

Add semolina & cardamom powder & beat it again add nuts & mix well
4

Transfer to greased and butter paper lined small baking tin and tap the tin.
5

Place the baking tin in a preheated
oven at 180°C. Bake for 35 to 40 minutes. (depend on oven temperature plz keep watching) Check with toothpick
The top should be golden brown.
6

Remove from oven. Cool down completely
Carefully unmould, remove butter paper. Garnish with cashew & pistachio
7

Keeps good for 1-2 days at room temperature.
Store in fridge for upto a week, warm it for 20 seconds before serving.
8

First time I make it & it comes so perfect & every one like it.

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Alka Bhandari @alka020567

on March 31, 2025 16:33

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