EAST INDIAN DISHES:CHUM CHUM RECIPE

CHUM CHUM RECIPE

Ingredients: 1 cup water 2 -3 drops lemon colour 1/4 tsp green cardamom powder a few strands saffron  250 gms cottage cheese (paneer) 2 tblsp refined flour (maida) 100 gms condensed milk (unsweetened) 1 cup sugar 

How to make chum chum :

1. Melt sugar in water and heat up to make a thin syrup. 
2. Knead the paneer with flour and shape into oval shaped fingers, mix in them to the sugar syrup and boil for eight minutes. 
3. Take off from heat up and mix in lemon color to the syrup. 
4. Cool for a while and take off the chum-chums from the syrup. 
5. Mix in saffron and cardamom powder to sugarless, creamy, condensed milk. 
6. Spread this on each piece and serve.