Chhanar jilipi (Cottage cheese dumplings).
You can cook Chhanar jilipi (Cottage cheese dumplings) using 9 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.
Ingredients of Chhanar jilipi (Cottage cheese dumplings)
- You need 150 g of chaana/cottage cheese.
- You need 4 tbsp of flour/maida.
- It’s 2 tbsp of suji/dry semolina.
- Prepare 2 tbsp of corn flour.
- Prepare a pinch of Baking soda.
- It’s As needed of Oil.
- Prepare of Sugar.
- Prepare As needed of Water.
- You need 2-3 of cardamoms.
Chhanar jilipi (Cottage cheese dumplings) step by step
- To make chaana boil milk and add lemon juice on it until the milk separates, and pour the residue/chaana in a clean cloth and tie it until all the water drains out..
- Knead the chaana/cottage cheese with maida,corn flour and baking soda,sugar a pinch until it becomes a smooth paste,consistency should be very fine no lumps.
- Take small batches out of the mixture and and roll it pin shape then into a semi-circle with both the side tucked in,thus making many jilipis.
- Deep fry in oil until it turns out brownish in colour.
- In a separate pan take water and plenty of sugar and bring it to boil until thickness develops and it turns into syrup, put some cardamoms in it.
- Simmer the hot jilipis in the sugar syrup and keep it aside for the jilipis to soak in and serve it hot anytime.