Chum Chum Recipe – Bengali Cham Cham Recipe

To be frank, i am not a big fan of rasgullas. I like them but i love rasmalai. This one tasted really delicious and it is pretty easy to make as well.

Making rasgullas is so easy if you follow my steps, the ratio and procedure is very important. The main thing is to get the chenna ouright, i have posted step wise picture for how to make chenna. Soft chenna results in a soft and spongier rasgullas. And also the consistency of sugar is also important. Please follow my measurements so you will get no fail spongier rasgullas each time..Give this a try and let me know how it turned out for you..

Pictorial:

Take milk in a pot

Put it on high heat and keep stiring

Squeeze juice from 1 lemon, you need 1.5 tblspn of lemon juice

Line sieve with muslin cloth and place it over a bowl

Now the milk must have started foamy

Now it has boiled

Take it off the heat and leave it for a 1 mins

Add in the lemon juice

Mix gently and you will see the milk has started curdling

Now it is completely curdled, you can see a light greenish kind of water has separated, this is the correct stage

pour the entire thing on to the sieve

This is the whey water, so healthy..You can use them to knead chapati dough, add it to rasam, soup..

Now take a bowl of cold water, drop the curdled chenna into the water and wash it well

You can run it under cold tap water too.. I washed it like this for 3 changes of water

Now hung it over a tap for 30 mins, i squeezed it with my hands occasionally to make things faster

This is the soft chenna which you get after the draining process

Take chenna in a bowl

Knead it with your hands gently

Just knead and knuckle

Till you get a kind of soft dough

Just like this

Divide it into equal portions

roll it into a ball

take one

roll it like this

all done

take sugar in a pressure cooker

add water

bring it to a boil

drop the cham cham in this

cook till this doubles in size

now take this in a bowl

add cardamom powder

chop some pistachios finely

take your other ingredients

slit open the cham cham

fill it with khoya

top with pistachios

roll in coconut

you can even roll it plain in coconut

serve