Hey everyone, it is Drew, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, chenapoda | baked cheesecake. One of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Chenapoda
To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook chenapoda | baked cheesecake using 6 ingredients and 14 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Chenapoda | baked Cheesecake:
- Make ready 1.5 cup fresh Paneer (made from 2 kg Milk )
- Make ready 1/2 cup Sugar
- Make ready 2 tbsp semolina
- Make ready 1 pinch Cardamom
- Prepare 1 tbsp Ghee
- Prepare Handful Raisins and cashews
It's easy to make and just as delicious as any restaurant cheesecake that I've had. Chena Poda(Chena means cottage cheese, Poda stands for burnt). Chena poda(baked cottage cheese) is a sweet dish from the state of Orissa, India. Chhena poda (Odia: เฌเญเฌจเฌพเฌชเญเฌกเฌผ) is a cheese dessert from the state of Odisha in eastern India.
Steps to make Chenapoda | baked Cheesecake:
- Make fresh paneer and keep it aside for 10-15 minutes.
- Do not squeeze it very hard, a spongy texture with a little moisture is good enough.
- Heat little ghee in a pan, roast cashews and keep it aside.
- Now, take paneer in a bowl and mix it with semolina and cardamom.
- Start kneading it till you get a very mashy quality, this will take 3-4 minutes.
- Add sugar and nuts and again mix it with paneer thoroughly to get a crumbly mixture finally.
- Now, in the ramekins, spread a little ghee and keep them on low flame to melt it properly.
- Add sugar to it and let it caramelise for a minute.
- Pour in the paneer mix over the caramelised sugar.
- Press it with fingers to form an even surface.
- Bake the ramekins for 25-30 minutes.
- Insert a toothpick to check if it is cooked.
- Cool it for a while, and take it out from the ramekin.
- Serve it warm. - Happy cooking..๐๐
Chhena poda literally means burnt cheese in Odia. It is made of well-kneaded homemade fresh cheese chhena, sugar, cashew nuts and raisins, and is baked for several hours until it browns. Chenapoda is a famous odia sweet dish. It's also a part of puri Jaganaath mahaprasad. The meaning of chennapoda is rosted cheese. #chenapoda
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