Cham Cham is a popular Bengali Mithai. It is concocted using freshly prepared chena (cottage cheese). The recipe looks much similar to Rasgulla, but these Cham Cham's are much more tastier than the conventional Rasgullas. We can make many variations of the prepared cham chams.
Here are the different ways of serving Bengali Cham Cham.
- We can either serve them as plain cham chams garnished with nuts
- We can coat the Cham Cham with dessicated coconut and garnish with nuts
- We can serve the Cham Cham soaked in freshly prepared Malai
- We can slit the Cham Cham and stuff it with Khova and nuts
I have given here the first 3 methods of serving Cham Cham. The last method is simple, we just need to slit the cooked cham cham and stuff it with khova and finely chopped nuts.
Valentine's Day are always special. I always make some special sweet for my hubby :-). This time, I have planned to make these yummy Cham Cham. I am sharing this recipe specially for the occasion of Valentine Day. A perfect dessert to show our love to our beloved ones.
Bengali Cham Cham Recipe | Malai Cham Cham Recipe | How to make Chum Chum
Preparation and Yield:Preparation time -
Cooking Time 45 mins
Yield 8
Bengali Cham Cham Recipe | Malai Cham Cham Recipe | How to make Chum Chum
Ingredients:Milk 4 Cups* or 1 litre 2 tablespoon
Lemon Juice 2 tablespoon
Sugar 2.5 Cups
Water 3.5 Cups
Cardamom Powder 1/4 teaspoon
Chopped Pistachios 1 teaspoon
Bengali Cham Cham Recipe | Malai Cham Cham Recipe | How to make Chum Chum
Method:
- Heat a pan and add 1 litre of milk to the pan. Keep stirring until the milk starts to boil. We should get nice bubbles in the milk. Also keep stirring till you get bubbles. The stirring will help the fat to fully combine with the milk. If we don't stir, then the fat will separate from the milk and we would not get soft and spongy cottage cheese. Meanwhile dilute the lemon juice with 1 tablespoon of water and keep it ready.
Bengali Cham Cham Recipe | Malai Cham Cham Recipe | How to make Chum Chum
We can also roll the cham cham in dessicated coconut and then arrange in serving plate and garnish with finely chopped pistachios. We can also make a slight twist. While kneading the cheese we can add few drops of saffron color and knead the cheese well and then cook them in sugar syrup and then coat them in dessicated coconut. I have not added color in this recipe. Serve the coconut coated Cham Cham dessert and enjoy this dessert with your beloved Valentine!
Bengali Cham Cham Recipe | Malai Cham Cham Recipe | How to make Chum Chum
Method for Evaporated Milk: - In a heavy bottomed pan, heat the milk. Stir the milk to avoid overflow. Allow the milk to boil till it becomes thicker and reduces to 1 cup of quantity