Delicious Chena Poda Recipe

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Delicious Chena Poda Recipe.Chenna poda is a delicious dessert popular in odisha. Its made with chenna or fresh paneer. The whole dish is baked and can also be known as paneer cake.Chena Poda Recipe

Prep Time
10 mins
Cook Time
30 minutes
Total Time
forty minutes
Cuisine
Odisha
Course
Desserts, Sweets

Ingredients

250 grams paneer or chenna
½ cup sugar or a hundred twenty five grams sugar or ½ cup jaggery powder
½ teaspoon cardamom powder
½ tablespoon rice flour
cashews and raisins may be introduced
1 to two teaspoons Ghee or as needed for greasing tray/pan

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Instructions

Preparation
Firstly line a baking pan with a few chopped banana leaves. Grease the banana leaves with some ghee.

You can also use butter paper or parchment paper in preference to banana leaves. Or you can bypass the whole thing and just grease the pan with ghee on all sides.

Also preheat oven at one hundred eighty stages celsius for 15 mins.

Making Chhena Poda Mixture

Then take the 250 grams clean paneer or chenna and fall apart it very well.
Then add ½ cup sugar. You also can use ½ cup jaggery powder rather than sugar.
With smooth fingers blend sugar with the chenna.Chena Poda Recipe

Then preserve to mash and knead the paneer or chenna just like the way you will knead a chapati dough.

The paneer combination has to emerge as free, light and with a cake batter like consistency. The extra mild and softer the consistency, the higher the chhena poda tastes.Chena Poda Recipe

I actually have not added any milk or water. In case the mixture seems dry, then you may upload a few tablespoons of milk or water. Some quantity of fat is released even as mashing chenna and thats satisfactory.Chena Poda Recipe

Delicious Chena Poda Recipe

Once you get a cake batter like consistency in the paneer aggregate, then add ½ teaspoon cardamom powder and ½ tablespoon rice flour. Optionally a pinch of baking soda can also be introduced, but does now not make any distinction. Instead of rice flour, you could additionally use satisfactory rava (sooji). Some chopped dry culmination like cashews, almonds and raisins also can be introduced.

Pour the chhena poda mixture in the pan. Shake the pan lightly in order that the chenna poda aggregate spreads calmly. Level the pinnacle with a spatula.
Place the pan inside the oven and bake chena poda for 30 to 45 mins. If the use of otg, use the toast mode and maintain pan within the middle. Bake chena poda until the pinnacle crust gets a darkish golden shade. Oven instances range, so do hold a take a look at. In some ovens this paneer cake can even take less time. I am giving an average time to be able to paintings for maximum ovens.

Remove from the oven once carried out.
Then take a look at with a bamboo skewer or toothpick and it have to be clean. There ought to be no sticky batter on the toothpick.
Let the paneer cake cool absolutely inside the pan. Then take away it.
You can slice and then serve chenna poda. Leftover may be refrigerated for two to three days.

Serve chhena poda as dessert after meals or as a sweet snack.
Notes

Nutrition Facts
Chhena Poda
Amount Per Serving
Calories 195Calories from Fat ninety nine
% Daily Value*
Fat 11g17%
Saturated Fat 6g38%
Cholesterol 29mg10%
Sodium 10mg0%
Carbohydrates 18g6%
Sugar 16g18%
Protein 5g10%
Calcium 200mg20%