HOLI SPECIAL-Chena Kheer Recipe – Channar Payesh Recipe

Ingredients for Chhena Kheer Recipe

• Full cream milk – ½ liter (for making chena)
• Full cream milk – 1 liter (to thicken it up)
• Sugar – 1 cup (225 grams)
• Powdered sugar – ¼ cup (40 to 50 grams)
• Lemon – 1 (big size)
• Saffron – 15 to 20 threads
• Green cardamom – 4 to 5
• Pistachios – 7 to 8

How to make Channar Payesh Recipe

Take two vessels separately for making chena and thickening up the milk.

Prepare chena:

Take lemon juice and add water in same quantity.

When milk starts simmering, take it off flame and allow it cool. After 3 to 4 minutes, add lemon juice little by little and keep stirring constantly. When milk coagulates completely, chena and water appears separately then stop adding lemon juice into it. Strain the chena over a cloth and pour cold water over it to remove the sourness. Lift up the cloth from all sides and squeeze out the excess water. Chena for making rasgullas is ready.

Thicken up the milk:

For kheer, when milk starts simmering, reduce the flame and cook until it thickens. Keep stirring the milk at regular intervals so that it doesn’t stick to the bottom of the pan. When milk thickens up, add cardamom powder, saffron threads and powdered sugar...MORE