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Home Dish Chenapoda

Chenapoda

Name: How to cook Chenapoda - cookcic.com
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 15 min
Total time: 30 min
Yield: 6-7 persons
Cuisine: Us

Introduce

Chef :

Susmita Patnaik

Chenapoda

Odisha

Ingredient

Food ration :

6-7 persons

Cooking time :

55 minutes

1 ltr

Chena from milk

120-150 g

sugar (adjust as per your taste)

40 g

sooji

Handful

cashews and kishmish

cardamoms

1/2 tsp

vanilla essence

as required

Water

1 tbsp

Ghee

Cooking instructions

* Step 1

Boil milk. As it comes to boiling add 1/2 tsp vinegar. Mix and boom..your milk curdles. Chena and water separates.

* Step 2

Strain the chena. Keep the whey for other uses. (making soups, kneading dough, adding in gravies).

* Step 3

Wash the chena to remove traces of vinegar.

* Step 4

Now the chena taken must not be dry. Put little whey. Take this chena in a mixing bowl. Mash and mix so as to soften and smoothen the chena.

* Step 5

Next add sugar and continue mash and mix till sugar dissolves.

* Step 6

Next add sooji and repeat mash and mix. Then add cardamoms and mix. Add some vanilla essence and mix. Whenever required add 2-3 tbsp of water/ whey water.

* Step 7

Add cashews and kishmish and mix.

* Step 8

Do not make the batter runny, neither should it be very thick. Take the medium path.

* Step 9

Next prepare for baking. Take a pressure cooker, remove it's gasket and whistle. Pour in salt at the base and place a stand upon it.

* Step 10

Now at slow flame preheat the cooker. Keep the stand so that batter doesn't come in direct contact with salt else more heat can lead to burning of the batter.

* Step 11

Next take a baking tin. Brush nicely with ghee. Place a butter paper. Upon that also brush ghee.

* Step 12

Now pour in the chena batter. Even it. Tap it twice.

* Step 13

Place the baking tin in the preheated cooker and place the cooker lid. Bake at slow flame.

* Step 14

After 35-40 minutes check. If it's nice and brown it's done else bake for some more time.

* Step 15

Mine took 50-55 minutes for baking. After 50 minutes. Switch the flame off and let it be for 5 more minutes in the cooker.

* Step 16

The aroma is superb and colour

* Step 17

Then take it out. Do not disturb. Let it cool. As it cools, loosen the sides and carefully revert on to a serving plate. Be careful it may break as it would be soft.