Homemade chenna murki recipe
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Chenna Murki recipe is a bengali sweet made with sugar and paneer.
Prep Time 5 minutes mins
Cook Time 15 minutes mins
Total Time 20 minutes mins
Course Sweets
Cuisine Bengali, Indian
1 cup = 200ml
- 250 grams Paneer / Cottage cheese
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 tbsp Milk
- 2-3 drops Kewra essence or cardamom powder or essence
- 1 cup Water
- Icing sugar/ powdered sugar as per need.
Cut paneer into small cubes of about 1/2 inch size. Keep aside. In a wide pan, add sugar with water and let it cook, stirring continuously, till the sugar dissolves.
Add the milk and scum will be seen floating over the surface of water. discard this scum after collecting with the help of a spoon.
keep cooking the syrup till it attains a one-string consistency.
Add kewra essence and the cubes of paneer/cottage cheese and cook till the syrup coats the cubes well.
When the sugar syrup thickens, remove the pan from heat. Keep twiddling the cubes till the cubes are thickly coated with the syrup and separated from each other.
The sugar syrup will turn into powdered sugar.
Remove the cubes from the pan, place them in serving plate and sprinkle some icing sugar/powdered sugar over them.
Your Chenna Murki is ready.
Keyword chena murki, murki chenna