Chanar Payesh Recipe : Try this authentic Bengali sweet recipe at home

When we talk about sweets, Bengali sweets are one of the most popular ones to have. In fact, no other sweet can beat the taste of Bengali sweets. Bengali Sweets are mostly made of milk and other milk products, and hence these sweets are fresh and need to be consumed within a day or two.

Chanar Payesh is one of the most delicious Bengali sweets served during special occasions. Chanar Payesh recipe requires thick full cream milk which makes the dish richer and delectable. Trying the Chanar Payesh Recipe at home is very easy and this creamy luscious authentic and traditional Bengali sweet will take away your heart. So, here is the Chanar Payesh recipe for you to experiment at home.

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Other Details for Chanar Payesh Recipe

• Cuisine: Bengali Cuisine

• Course: Dessert

• Diet: Vegetarian
• Preparation time: 10 minutes
• Cooking time: 40 minutes
• Total time: 50 minutes
• Serving: 4

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Chanar Payesh Recipe, try this popular Bengali sweet recipe at home

Ingredients required to make Chanar Payesh Recipe

• 250 grams Paneer (Homemade Cottage Cheese)
• 2 cups Milk, thick full cream
• 1/3 cup Sugar
• ½ tsp Cardamom Powder (Elaichi)
• Saffron strands, few strands, soaked in 2 tbsp milk
• 10 Cashew nuts, finely chopped
• 10 Raisins
• 6 Badam (Almond), finely chopped
• Few Pistachios, finely chopped

To garnish

• Mixed nuts, chopped or thin sliced
• 2 to 3 Rose Petals
• 6 to 7 Saffron strands

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Instructions to make Chanar Payesh Recipe

• To start with the Chanar Payesh recipe, take some fresh paneer in a bowl and mash it well with your hands to make it soft and moist.
• Pinch a marble-sized Chenna and prepare dumplings out of it and keep them separately.
• Take a thick bottom pan and boil full cream milk and condense the milk till it turns off white in color and creamy in texture.
• Keep scraping the cream from sides and add into the boiling milk, this will make the milk more thick.
• Now add sugar, saffron milk and cardamom powder along with chopped cashews, almonds and pistachios and let it boil for another few minutes so that the taste enhances.
• Keep stirring at regular breaks to avoid milk getting burnt or sticking at the bottom.
• Once the milk comes to a thick and creamy consistency, pour in the Chenna dumplings and cook for another 5-6 mins on a low flame.
• Then, add raisins and turn off the gas; keep the pan separately to cool. Refrigerate the Chanar Payesh recipe and serve chilled.
• You can serve the Chanar Payesh recipe as a sweet dish during your house parties or during festivals.

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