Chhena Recipe | How to Make Chenna for Sweets (Homemade Chenna)
How to Make Chenna for Sweets with step by step pictures. Chhena is fresh strained cottage cheese made with full fat milk and lemon juice. This is used in the making of Indian sweets like rasgullas, kalakand.
Equipment
Sauce Pan
Strainer & Muslin Cloth
Ingredients
- 1 liter Full Fat Milk
- 1.5 tablespoon Lemon Juice
Instructions
- Squeeze some lemons, you will need 1.5 tblspn of lemon juice, line a sieve with muslin cloth and place it over a big bowl.
- Take milk in a pot and put it on high heat. Let it come to a boil. Once it boils, take it off the heat and let it sit for 1 min.
- Now add in lemon juice and mix gently. The milk will curdle. Once a greenish whey separates from the milk and the milk solids have curdled completely. Strain it in the sieve.
- Now take a big bowl of cold water and wash the chenna well. rinse it in three changes of water.
- Now squeeze it gently with your hands to remove any excess whey water, Tie a knot and hang it over a tap and leave it to drain for 30 mins. I squeezed occasionally to make things faster.
- Now the chenna is done, this is a soft chenna recipe, you can use them to make different sweets.