Bengali Recipes, Chanar Bara Recipe
Chanar Bara Recipe
Ingredients:
1 tsp green cardamom power
500 gms refined flour (maida)
250 gms cottage cheese (paneer/chana)
ghee for frying
2 cup sugar
How to make Chanar Bara :
• Mash paneer well.
• Mix one tblsp of ghee with the flour.
• Mix milk a little at a time.
• There should be no lumps.
• The batter should be rather thin.
• Now, mix in the mashed paneer.
• This will thicken the batter.
• Lastly, mix in the powdered cardamom.
• The batter, must be of medium thick consistency so that it can easily be dropped from a spoon.
• Make syrup of one string consistency with the sugar and 11/2 cup of water.
• Heat up ghee in a kadhai.
• Drop spoonfuls of batter and fry till golden.
• Soak in the syrup for at least two hours.