Bengali Chum Chum Recipe – Bengali Special Sweet

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Prep Time 15 Minutes

Cooking Time 20 Minutes

Servings 2-3

Rating

Chum Chum also called Cham Cham Recipe is one of the traditional Bengali sweet recipes that is prepared with milk. It is a tear drop shaped rasgulla with firmer texture and cooked in thicker syrup. Have a look at the recipe.

Ingredients

5 cups / 1litreMilk
2 tablespoonsLemon juice
2 cupsSugar
1 tablespoonArarot
¼ cupMawa
3Cardamoms
3 tablespoonsPowdered sugar
7 thinly slicedPistachios
2 dropsKewada essence
1 pinchYellow color

Directions

Add milk to a bowl and place it on flame
Once the milk is boiled, off the flame and let it cool for 10 minutes
Add some water in lemon juice and add this mixture to the milk at a time
This helps the milk to coagulate
Stop adding lemon juice when the milk coagulates completely
Collect the water in the utensil and the solid stuff will be collected in the cloth
Pour some water on this solid part and wash it nicely
Add 4 cups of water to the pressure cooker
Add 2 cups of sugar to it and boil it on low flame
While the sugar syrup is getting ready, prepare the cham cham
Divide the solid part into 8 equal parts and bind it nicely in an ovel shape as shown in the image
Place it on a plate and continue the same process with the remaining part
Once the sugar water is boiled, off the flame and add the prepared balls to the sugar mixture
When all the balls are added to the pressure cooker, close the lid and start boiling it
After one whistle, reduce the flame and cook for 5 to 7 minutes
Off the flame and place the cooker in cool utensil so that it becomes cool very quickly in water
Open the lid and take out the cham cham along with sugar syrup in a bowl
Prepare the stuff for cham cham at this point
Take a bowl and add sugar powder, mashed mawa, cardamom powder to it and mix them well
Now slit the cham cham exactly in middle and place the stuff in it
Garnish it with chopped pistachios and serve it directly without any sugar syrup.

If you want have it in the form of Juicy Chum Chum, store the sugar syrup in a bowl or refrigerator and have it cool whenever you want to. If you want to eat something spicy before having the sweet, try Bengali Mutton Recipe and have a complete meal along with this sweet.

-Neelima