Chanabara
Spiraling deep-fried batter rings soaked in sugar syrup. Odia festival jalebi-like sweet.
People also search this as chhena bara, chenabara, chena vada.
Ingredients
- Baking Soda (Food Grade Sodium Bicarbonate) — 1 g
- oil — 100 g
- Rice Flour — 25 g
- salt — 1 g
- Cardamom Powder — 1 g
- Water — 420 g
- wheat flour maida — 150 g
- sugar — 300 g
- Lemon — 5 g
Method
- Mix maida, rice flour, salt and about 180 g water into a thick, flowing batter.
- Cover and keep overnight to ferment.
- Boil sugar with remaining water until sticky, one-string syrup. Add cardamom and lemon juice.
- Beat baking soda into the batter. Fill it in a cloth with a small hole.
- Heat oil in a flat pan. Pipe the batter in spiral rings.
- Fry both sides until crisp and golden.
- Dip the hot rings in warm syrup for 1 minute.
- Lift out and serve warm.
Common questions
- How many calories in one plate of Chanabara?
- 451 kcal per plate.
- How much cooking time?
- 75 min — 60 min prep, 15 min cooking.
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