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Chicken Pies Recipe
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Chicken Pies Recipe

A vegetarian Bengali Recipes recipe with paneer (homemade cottage cheese), milk - full cream, sugar. Ready in 50 min, serves 4.

Curated byAnanya Chatterjee🇮🇳

Calories
620kcal
Estimated Cost
300-450
Carbs68g
Protein36g
Fats23g
Servings Scaler
4

Instructions

11 steps
  1. 1

    To begin making Chanar Payesh, take fresh paneer in a bowl and mash it well with your hands to make it smooth and moist

    paneer (homemade cottage cheese)(250 grams)
  2. 2

    Pinch marble sized chenna and make dumplings out of it and keep them aside

  3. 3

    Boil full cream milk in a thick bottomed pan and reduce it till it turns off white and creamy

    milk - full cream(2 cups)
  4. 4

    Keep scraping the cream from sides and add into the boiling milk

    milk - full cream(2 cups)
  5. 5

    Add sugar, saffron milk and cardamom powder along with chopped cashews, almonds and pistachios and cook it for another few minutes

    milk - full cream(2 cups)sugar(1/3 cup)cardamom powder (elaichi)(1/2 teaspoon)saffron strands - few strandscashew nuts - chopped(10)badam (almond) - chopped(6)few pistachios - choppedmixed nuts - choppedsaffron strands
  6. 6

    Keep stirring at regular intervals to avoid milk getting burnt

    milk - full cream(2 cups)
  7. 7

    Once the milk comes to a thick and creamy consistency, slide in the chenna dumplings and cook for another 5-6 mins on a low flame

    milk - full cream(2 cups)
  8. 8

    Add raisins and turn off the gas keep aside to cool

    raisins(10)
  9. 9

    Refrigerate the payesh and serve chilled

  10. 10

    Serve Chanar Payesh as a sweet dish during your house parties or during festivals

  11. 11

    Serve them at the end of a meal made up of Methi Matar Pulao, Nawabi Kofta Curry Recipe and Beetroot Raita Recipe (Cold Beet & Yogurt Soup/Salad)

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