Bengali Sweet Malai Chop Recipe | स्पेशल मिठाई मलाई चॉप` त्यौहार के लिये खास रेसिपी ।

Ingredients:

Cow Milk- 1.5 Ltr

Lemon- 2

Sugar- 1.5 cups (350 gms)

Mawa- 1 cup (200 gms)

Saffron- 30 to 40 thread

Boora- 3 tbsp

Refined Flour- 1 tbsp

Pistachios- 10 to 15 (grated)

How to make chena malai sandwich

For chena

1- Stir and boil 1-litre milk on the medium flame.

2- Switch off the flame once milk boils and leave it slightly cool down for 4 minutes.

3- Separate 2 tbsp of milk in a mini bowl along with saffron strands.

4- Extract 2 tbsp of the juice of lemons and add 2 tbsp of water in it.

5- Add lime juice in milk in intervals and mix it so that the milk curdles.

6- Place a strainer on the bowl and spread a cotton cloth over it.

7- Pour the curdled milk on it and lift the cloth to separate whey milk from the chena.

8- Wash the chena to remove the flavour of lemon and again press it to strain extra water.

9- Mash the chena using your palms and add 1 tbsp of refined flour.

10- Mix and mash for 4-5 minutes to make it smoother.

11- Divide chena lump, roll it between your palms and press it from all the corners.

For sugar syrup

1- Take 1.5 cups of sugar and add 4.5 cups of water in it.

2- Cook until sugar dissolves.

For chena sandwich

1- Add the chena pieces in the sugar syrup once it boils.

2- Add them in intervals to avoid the disappearance of boiling sugar syrup.

3- Cover and cook for 5 minutes on the high flame.

4- After, 5 minutes check the chena pieces and you’ll realise that they have expanded.

5- Again, cover them and cook for more 5 minutes.

6- Flip and cook them for more 5 minutes.

7- Switch off the flame after 5 minutes and keep them aside to cool down for an hour.

8- Remove the chena pieces and put them over the strainer so that extra sugar syrup moves out of it.

For stuffing

1- Take 1 cup of mawa and add saffron milk in it.

2- Blend both ingredients to make them smoother.

3- Add 3 tbsp of boora and mix them properly.

4- Partially cut the chena pieces into two equal halves.

5- Open them and add mawa stuffing inside them.

6- Press them slightly to make the stuffing even and remove extra stuffing using a knife.

7- Stuff all the chena malai sandwich in the same way. 8- Garnish them with sliced pistachios.

Serving:

1- You can cut them in desired shapes and serve.

Suggestion:

1- In case the sugar syrup starts moving out of the bowl while boiling then, slightly remoce the cover for steam to release.