Odisha Delicious Food Chhena Poda

Odia Food 

Today am discos about odia sweet food chhena poda. It is a cheese dish from the state of Odisha ieastern India. It means burnt cheese in Oriya. It prepare in chhena, sugar, cashew nuts and raisins.It is originated in the Oriya town of Nayagarh in the first half of the twentieth century.We can serve it in any Occasion and Function in odisha.

Chhena Poda

Ingredients:

• Chhena - 300 gm
• Chini - ( Sugar ) - 250 gm
• Suji - 3 tbs
• Gujurati Gunda - 5 cardamoms powdered
• Kaju - ( Cashew nuts broken Pisces ) - 1 tbs
• Kishmis - ( raisins ) - 1 tbs
• Warm milk - 2 tbs
• Soda - (Baking powder ) - 1/4 tbs
• 2 Lemon juice

Preparation:

• First take the milk and boil it.
• Add lemon juice to the boiled milk and stir till the chhena separate.
• Put this milk in a muslin cloth. Drain out the water.
• Hang the muslin cloth for 15 minutes.
• Transfer the cottage cheese to a plate. 
• Mash well with hands till smooth the cheese  .
• Add sugar and mix it well. 
• If the cheese too dry, add a tsp of milk.
• Add suji and mix it well. 
• Cover it and stay it for 15 minutes.
• Then take two tbs sugar in a pan  and hit it. 
• When the sugar just begins to melt spreads it over the base of pan .
• Leave it to cool.
• Rub the cottage cheese mixture again. 
• Add cardamom powder, raisins, cashews nuts and baking powder, mix it well.
• Put the mixture into the pan. 
• Bake in the preheated oven at 180 degrees C for 55 minutes or till the top turns brown .
• Take a knife through the sides and turn back it on the rack . 
• Add the refrigerate when it cold serve it.