How much cooking time?

45 min — 20 min prep, 25 min cooking.

Cham Cham

Name: Cham Cham
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 25 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 8 servings
Cuisine: West Bengal Indian
Ingredients: 2piece Cardamom; salt; 100g Khoya (Dhap - Soft/Moist); 100g sugar; 15g Coconut; 100g Paneer

Oval chhena sweet soaked in sugar syrup and coated with mawa and grated coconut. Bengali sweet from Shaktigarh.

Time 45 min · Serves 8 · 142 kcal · Central Bengal, West Bengal

Ingredients

Garnish

Cardamom — 2 piece (ground)

Main

salt (optional) (whole)
Khoya (Dhap - Soft/Moist) — 100 g (whole)
sugar — 100 g (whole)
Coconut (garnish) — 15 g (chopped)
Paneer — 100 g (whole)

Method

Knead the fresh chhena (paneer) until smooth, then shape into small oval/cylindrical pieces.
Prepare a light sugar syrup with sugar, water and cardamom and bring to a gentle boil.
Drop the chhena ovals into the simmering syrup, cover, and cook 15-20 minutes until they swell and turn spongy.
Cool the cham cham in the syrup. Optionally slit and fill with sweetened khoya.
Roll in grated coconut before serving.

Common questions

How many calories in one plate of Cham Cham?: 142 kcal per plate.
How much cooking time?: 45 min — 20 min prep, 25 min cooking.

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