0 Bengali Chanar Jalebi Paneer Jalebi SN Challenge

Been a South Indian, Bengali sweets are quite famous in my hometown and if its a special day my dad never forget to bought some rasgullas from one of the Bengali sweet stall in Pondicherry. Obviously Bengali sweets are our family favourite.Apart from rasgullas and sandesh, i dont know much about  Bengali sweets before entering to this virtual world, slowly i came to know about many more Bengali sweets and tried some at home. This time i got an another wonderful chance to try out an incredible chanar jalebi for our this months Southvs North Challenge an event owned by Divya Pramil.

Yesterday you might have noticed thathave posted a chettinad style gravy to challenge our opposite aka Northern team and today am here with this Chanar jalebi as Chandrani of Cuisine Delights challenged the Southern team with this beautiful deep fried paneer jalebis. I heard lot about this paneer jalebis, Chandrani tempted me very much with her beautiful jalebis, finally tried them immediately with some homemade paneer.Everyone enjoyed thoroughly this pretzel like jalebis and this jalebis sounds very much easier than the usual jalebis.Thanks to Chandrani for challenging us with this beautiful chanar jalebis and we enjoyed this authentic paneer jalebis to the core.I served this jalebis with leftover sugar syrup eventhough those jalebis are well swelled in sugar syrup.

2litres Milk

Lemon juice per need

3tsp Maida

1tsp Milk

1tsp Baking powder

1/2tsp Cardamom powder

3nos Cardamom (crushed)

1cup Sugar

1/2cup Water

Oil for deep frying

Few saffron strands & nuts for serving

Boil the milk and add the lemon juice to make fresh paneer.

Now strain this curdled milk to strain the paneer, squeeze out the excess of water and keep aside for few minutes.

Meanwhile in a heavy bottom pan, bring boil the sugar and water,crushed cardamoms and stir until the sryup turns thick.

Now knead the cheese with cardamom powder,milk,maida for 15minutes to form a smooth dough.

Pinch a small ball from the prepared paneer dough and roll it as rope,twist the end of the rolled rope to form a pretzel like shape.

Heat the oil for deepfrying in medium flame, slowly drop the already prepared paneer jalebis into the oil and cook until they turns golden brown, dunno y mine didnt turned out dark brown.

Drop the cooked jalebis immediately to the warm syrup and let them sit for few hours.

Serve the paneer jalebis hot or chilled with some chopped nuts and saffron strands.

0 Potato Paneer Stuffed Yeasted Muffins

Preparing a lunch box for school going kids is definitely a big task for most of the Indian mummies. Thank god, i dont have to prepare lunch box for my kids. Since i want to go through the experience of packing foods for kids, i chosed this weeks theme for blogging marathon as Mess free tiffin box. After posting biscottis for a simple snack box and a healthy nutritious sandwich for a lunch box, today am landing to this yeasted muffins.Y i named this beautiful dish as muffins, coz instead of making stuffed buns, i simply went for a muffin tray for making this stuffed beauties, so that you can get a pect muffin shaped stuffed buns.

I used an eggless, butterless bread dough for making these stuffed yeasted muffins.These yeasted bread muffins stays super spongy even after a day,if you conserve them properly. With a simple salad, this yeasted muffins makes a wonderful lunch box for any ages. I went for potatoes and paneer cubes for the stuffing masala, kids will definitely enjoy the filling and their lunch box.You can definitely see the empty lunch box if you pack this yeasted muffins.Check out the Blogging Marathon page for the other Blogging Marathoners doing BM#34.

3cups All purpose flour
2tsp Active dry yeast
1/2tsp Sugar
1tsp Salt
1/2cup Luke warm water
3tbsp Olive oil

Mix the yeast,sugar and salt in luke warm water and keep aside for 5minutes until the yeast turns foamy.

Take the flour in a large vessel, add gradually the foamy yeast and olive oil, knead everything as smooth and soft dough.

 Arrange the dough in a greased bowl,keep in a warm place for atleast for an hour or let the dough gets doubled their volume..

Mixed veggies & Paneer stuffing:
1cup Potatoes (chopped)
1cup Cubed paneer
1/4tsp Cumin seeds
1tsp Garam masala powder
1no Onion (big & chopped)
2nos Green chillies (chopped)
Salt
Oil

Heat oil in a pan, let crack the cumin seeds, add immediately the chopped onions,chopped green chillies, saute until the onions turns transculent.

Add immediately the chopped potatoes,saute everything for few minutes,now add the garam masala powder,salt and cook everything in simmer until the potatoes gets well cooked(springle water if needed).

Finally add the cubed paneer,give a quick stir and put off the stove,keep aside and let the masala get cooled completely..

Preheat the oven to 350F,grease the muffin tray and keep aside.

Punch down the dough and make 10-12medium sized balls.

Flatten them with a rolling pin as a small thick disc, place the already prepared masala,over the masala completely with the dough, shape the dough as buns.

Arrange the stuffed buns to the greased muffin tray.

Let it stay for an hour until its rises a bit.

Brush with oil on the top.

Bake in middle rack for 20-25minutes until the crust turns golden brown.

Let it cool in wire rack.

Serve.