Homemade chenna murki recipe
Chenna Murki recipe is a bengali sweet made with sugar and paneer.
Ingredients
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.
Instructions
- 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.