During the earlier stages of blogging, I used to collect so many cook books. Those books gave me ideas on making dishes, though I rarely cook recipes from books. When I exhausted the recipes from internet, I referred to some of my books. One was Tarla Dalal’s Rajasthani Cook Book. I am a great fan of Tarla Dalal as her recipes are accurate, beginning from the measurement of ingredients to the quantity of the dish the recipe is always perfect. So I chose to make Chenna Malpua from the book.
The procedure is so similar to all the paneer based sweets. A little flour is used to bind the paneer. Use soft home made paneer for good results. Deep frying gets a little technical here. If you deep fry on high flame, the malpua will burn fast without cooking and they will disintegrate easily. Use medium to low flame and be patient while they are frying. Flip only when the bottom is cooked and firm. As I made a huge batch of sugar syrup, I used it for this also. The malpuas were so crisp, beautiful and yum. As usual, my daughter was the taste tester and she loved it.
Makes 12 Malpuas
Ingredients:
Paneer – 200 gm
Maida – 1 1/2 tbs
Cardamom Powder – 1/4 tsp
Ghee To Fry
Sugar – 200 gm
Water – 150 ml
Procedure:
In a bowl mix together paneer, cardamom powder, maida and knead to form a soft dough.
Divide the dough into 12 equal portions.
Pat each portion into a disc.
Heat ghee in a pan and add five to six discs depending upon the capacity of the pan.
Shallow fry the discs until golden on both sides.
Heat together water and sugar and bring the syrup to single thread consistency.
Set aside and dip the malpuas for 10 minutes in the syrup.
Remove them from syrup and garnish with pistacios and rose petals.
Chenna Malpua - Indian Sweet Recipes
Ingredients
- Paneer-200 gm
- Maida - 1 1/2 tbs
- Cardamom Powder - 1/4 tsp
- Ghee To Fry
- Sugar - 200 gm
- Water -150 ml
Instructions
- In a bowl mix together paneer, cardamom powder, maida and knead to form a soft dough.
- Divide the dough into 12 equal portions.
- Pat each portion into a disc.
- Heat ghee in a pan and add five to six discs depending upon the capacity of the pan.
- Shallow fry the discs until golden on both sides.
- Heat together water and sugar and bring the syrup to single thread consistency.
- Set aside and dip the malpuas for 10 minutes in the syrup.
- Remove them from syrup and garnish with pistacios and rose petals.
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Chenna malpua looks extremely delicious and appealing. Havent Malpua since a long, and this chenna malpua looks prefect to make some soon.
OMG! Stunning dessert. I have tried the regular malpua but this is even more decadent.
That’s a rich malpua with paneer. Looks so delicious Gayathri. Wish i could grab few from that plate right now.
I made wholewheat Mallika and loved it. This version with Chenna must be ultra delicious .. u r to
Be crowned “dairy queen” now with these milk sweets U have given us this Mega BM
I love collecting cookbooks too and I have one diabetic friendly desserts books of Tarla Dalal. Agree her recipes are great. This chenna malpua has come out really well.
I have made a variety of Malpuas , but just chenna , No ! They are really tricky and burn if not taken care . You have made perfect malpuas , and from the right source . I too am a great fan of Tarla Dalal and find her recipes excellent , they never fail .
Wow, those chenna malpua look crispy on the outside and nice and fluffy on the inside. They look so inviting and tempting.
Malpua with channa sounds interesting and looks ever more tempting ..Such a killer recipe!!
Malpua with chenna , wow that is just amazing. Lovely idea Gayatri and I am sure it must have tasted so rich and delicious.
Some extraordinary finds for the theme Gayathri. Just admire how you manage to get through hurdles and prepare delicious dishes. I’d come across this paneer malpua recipe and haven’t tried as I thought that frying the flat paneer will not be easy.
Oh these look so sinful Gayathri..though I am not a big fan of rasgulla types, this way of chhena is my favorite after my series..will surely make it sometime!
Omg such a sinful dessert to indulge, makes my mouth water automatically seeing the captures and the preparation 🙂 looks so delicious gayathri 🙂
This is such a rich dessert and it should have tastes marvelous. Milk sweets are my weakness and my bookmark list is increasing with your recipes.
The chenna malpuas have come out Perfect, crispy on the outside and fluffy inside. My mind is whirling just to see the variety of sweets you have come up with using dairy products. I am guessing Shruthi & her friends had a blast.
I too rarely cook from the cookbooks that I have! That plate of chenna malpua looks absolutely inviting Gayathri