BENGALI CHANAR JALEBI / PANEER JALEBI - SNC CHALLENGE - 9

June month challenge is BENGALI CHANAR JALEBI and CHETTINAD PAKORA KUZHAMBU. We south team have to make Bengali chanar Jalebi

Today is the FATHER'S DAY. I gave this special treat to my DAD. Anyone can be a FATHER, but it takes someone SPECIAL to be a DAD like you!

HAPPY FATHER'S DAY APPA

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I am going to repeat the same story. Please don not think that I am boring you all. Just for spreading SNC to the blogosphere, I am repeating the same. It will be helpful to improve our SNC TEAM.

ABOUT SNC 

SNC (South vs North Challenge) is a challenge between north indian and south indian teams which is hosted by Divya Pramil (baby boss) from Youtoocancook 

 

• Motive of the SNC is to learn different regional food recipes from our co-bloggers. 
• Every month one member from north team challenges the south team and one member from south team challenges the north team.
• We have sufficient time to finish the challenge. Every month 1st, they post the challenges and we have time to finish it off until the end of the same month.
• Divya pamil allotted some points for the recipe posts. According to that, the winning team will be announced by her around second week of every month.
• If you would like to participate in this event, please contact divya.pramil@gmail.com. She will help you definitely. 

About the challenge of every month

SNC Challengers 

               North Indian                            South Indian

1. Shruthi - Shruti Rasoi                      Divya Prakash - Divya's Culinary 
                                                                                               Journey

 

2. Pallavi - Cook Eat Burp                  Yashodha        - Yashodha's Kitchen

 

3. Meena - Random Ramblings           Sherin             - Kuk's Kitchen


4. Manjula Bharath - Desi Fiesta         Ramya krishmoorthy - Lemon   
                                                                                                  Kurry

5. Sanoli Gosh - Sanoli's kitchen         Tamilarasi sasikumar - Tamil's
                                                                                                   Kitchen


6. Kirthi choudary - Flavors from        Swasthi  - Indian Healthy
                                 my Kitchen                           recipes

7. Hetal Acharya  - Gujarathi Zaika     Shama Nagarajan - Easy2cook
                                                                                               recipes

8. Nabanita Das    -  Esho-Bosho         Qubanika Meetha - Hydrabadi
                                 Aaharee                                               Cuisine
            


9. Chandrani         - Cuisine Delights   Priya Suresh - Priya's 
                                                                                      Versatile Recipes
 

SNC - WINNERS

OCT  2012 - NORTH TEAM

 

NOV 2012 - SOUTH TEAM

 

DEC 2012 - SOUTH TEAM

 

JAN 2013 - SOUTH TEAM

 

FEB 2013 - SOUTH TEAM

 

MAR 2013 - NORTH TEAM

 

 

SNC - Queen of the month

 

October 2012 - Shruthi Dhingra from Shruthi rasoi

November 2012 - Meenu aunty from Random ramblings

 

December 2012 - Manjula Bharath from Desi Fiesta 

January 2013     - Gayathri Kumar

February 2013   -  Santhosh Bhangar

March  2013     -  Sanoli Gosh from Sanoli's Kitchen and Sangeetha

April & May 2013 - Waiting for the results

BENGALI CHANAR JALEBI / PENEER JALEBI - SNC NO :9

I am a part of south team. This month our friend Priya from Priya's Versatile recipes represent from south team is challenged north team friends with Chettinad pakora kuzhambu and our friend Chandrani from Cuisine Delights challenged our south team with Bengali Chanar Jalebi 

About Bengali chanar Jalebi

 

It is a bangali dessert which is made up of fried paneer with some ingredients coated with thick cardamom flavored sugar syrup.  All of them are made this dessert using fresh paneer, but due to my health issue I could not do lot of works. But I was not participated in the SNC challenges for the past 5 months. I am really feeling guilty. SO I made this dessert bit different from your original version.

This is the quickest version for the friends who are not feeling well to do work like me :)

I used ready-made paneer. I used to keep sugar syrup in the microwave within 10 minutes :)

Ingredients

For Sugar Syrup

Sugar - 1 cup
Water - 1/2 cup
Cardamom powder - a pinch
Saffron - 2 strings (optional)

For Chanar jalebi

Paneer - 7 0z.

All purpose flour - 3 tbsp

Milk - 2 tsp

Baking soda - 1 tsp

Oil - to deep fry

 

 

To Garnish

Pistachio - 3 or 4 (Crush it)

Almond - 2 (optional)

Method

• For sugar syrup, add all the ingredients and mix well. Microwave it for 4 minutes. Stir every 1 or 2 minutes. Sugar syrup is getting ready. Keep 1 or 2 more minutes or until it becomes neither thin nor thick. It should be in the sticky consistency. 

• For jalebi, add all the ingredients except oil in a pan. Mix all the way until the paneer becomes soft and smooth.
  
• Take a small part from the dough, make it to a ball, roll it to a long tail, shape it like pretzel or your desire shape. Do the same for all the dough.
  
• Keep oil in a pan with medium flame for deep frying. Fry all the jalebis until it becomes golden color.
  
  
• Put them on the paper towel for few seconds and immediately shift all of them into the thick sugar syrup.   
  
• Garnish them with pistachios and almonds.

 

 

 Bengali chanar jaliebi came out very well. I am an ardent lover of sweets. It is a delectable dessert and my extreme thanks to Chandrani from Cuisine Delights for introducing this wonderful delicious recipe. 

I am going to link this recipe in the Chandrani's space for SNC - 9.

 

SHALLOTS PODI / VENGAYA PODI / SAMBAR VENGAYA PODI

Serving size - 2

Preparation time - 5 minutes

Cooking time - 10 minutes

Standing time - 10 to 15 minutes

Shallots are always remainds tears :)  Though it gives awesome taste to our taste buds. Secondly, shallots are  the best combination with porridge as well as with pazhaiyadhu (leftover rice soaked in the water ) or with neeragam(leftover rice's water + butter milk + salt).

Shallots are good for health. It soothing cool to our body. This might be favorite recipe for most of the vegetarians.

Ingredients

Shallots -7
Red chillies - 4
Channa dal - 4 tsp
Urad dal  - 2 tsp
Hing powder - a pinch
Salt - as needed
Oil - 1 tbsp

Method

1. Heat 1 1/2 tsp of oil in a pan, once it gets hot, add channa dal, after a minute or less add urad dal and red chillies. After few seconds, at the end stage add hing powder and fry until all the three comes to golden color. Keep it aside. Note : It should not get burn.
2. Add remainig oil, fry shallots until it becomes transparent. Allow it to get cool.
3. Grind channa dal, urad dal, red chillies and salt into coarse powder. Keep it aside.
4. Grind shallots separately. Once it gets smashed, add coarse powder and grind again. 
5. Shallots podi is ready now. It should be in the semi dry consistency. Note : If you don't fry shallots well, podi will be moist or looks like thuvaiyal.
6. Serve it with rice is the best combination and also use this for idly & dosa too.

TOMATO CHUTNEY/ THAKKALI CHUTNEY

Serving Size - 2

Preparation time - 15 to 20 minutes

Most of them like tomatoes. Tomatoes are the most powerful natural antioxidants and it helps to prevent cancer, especially cooked tomatoes helps a lot for this disease.

This tomato chutney might be favorite for most of them. By the way, this tomato chutney is our family's favorite chutney. My kid loves it very much. One of my friend (Mrs. Indhu) asked me to upload this recipe for a long time, but I din't find time to upload. I specially upload this recipe for Indhu and her hubby.

Ingredients

Tomatoes - 3
Red chillies - 3
Water - 1 cup
Chopped Onion - 1/2 cup
Curry leaves - 3 or 4
Salt - as required
Cilantro - to garnish
Mustard seeds - 1/2 tsp
Oil - 2 tbsp

Method

1. Wash tomatoes and boil it & red chillies with water for 5 to 10 minutes else until tomatoes skin got cracked. Allow them to get cool.
2. Peel off tomatoes skin and filter tomatoes and red chillies from the water. Keep the drained water aside.
3. Grind tomatoes and red chillies into paste.
4. Add oil in a pan, once it gets hot, add mustard seeds, curry leaves and onions. Salute it until onions gets transparent.
5. Add the ground tomato paste into the pan. Allow it to boil for few minutes or until this chutney comes thick. 
6. Once chutney gets ready, garnish it with cilantro which is optional.
7. Serve this chutney with idly or dosa or even with chappathi.

LOW CALORIE POMEGRANATE SMOOTHIE / JUICE

Serving size - 1 toddler

Preparation time - 5 minutes

 

 

Pomegranate smoothie is a good healthy drink. It is a good source of vitamin B and vitamin C. It seeds contains much fiber. Don't remove seeds while eating pomegranate. This smoothie is tonic for both heart and throat.

Ingredients

Pomegranate - 5 tsp
Water - 4-5 tbs
Sugar - 1/2 packet

Method

1. Add all the ingredients to the juicer and grind until pomegranate are smooth.
2. Transfer the smoothie or juice into a glass.
3. Garnish it with few pomegranate seeds and serve it cold or as well.

Note

1. For chill smoothie, you can use ice cubes.  But you have to add more sugar. So I won't use ice cubes.
2. Instead of ice cubes, we can use refrigerate pomegranate and refrigerate water. You don't want to add more sugar.

I would like to send this recipe to 

Giveaway Summer ’13 Drinks & Desserts

GRAPE LEMONADE

Serving size - 1

Preparation time - 10 minutes

Grape lemonade is my own try.  I want to finish it of all those grapes and also pre-cut lemon. Suddenly this combination strike in my mind. I tried it and turned out good.

Ingredients

Grapes - 11/2 cups
Lemon - 1/4
Salt - a pinch
Water - 1/2 cup
Sugar - 1/2 tsp

Method

1. Wash all the grapes and blend it using blender or juicer. Strain the juice.
2. Squeeze lemon and take juice from it.
3. Add lemon juice and grape juice together, salt, sugar and water.
4. Mix it well and keep it in the fridge else you can drink as such. Grapes and lemon are already chill. So the juices will be cool.
5. Finally serve chill!!!!!

NOTE :

You can add or reduce sugar and lemon juice as per your taste buds.

I would like to send this recipe to 

I'm sending this to Valli's Kid's delight happening as guest host

Sweet treats happening at Nivedhanam sowmya's place