How to Cook Tasty Chena Poda - Odia Burnt Cheese Cake

Chena Poda - Odia Burnt Cheese Cake.

You can have Chena Poda - Odia Burnt Cheese Cake using 8 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Chena Poda - Odia Burnt Cheese Cake

1. Prepare of Milk.
2. Prepare of curd / 1 lemon.
3. Prepare of sugar.
4. You need of semolina/ sooji.
5. It's of mix nuts ( almonds, cashews, raisins.
6. Prepare of desi ghee.
7. Prepare of cardamom powder.
8. It's of salt for baking in kadhai/ cooker.

Chena Poda - Odia Burnt Cheese Cake step by step

1. Take milk in a deep vessel and bring it to a boil..
2. When milk starts boiling, add juice of one lemon mixed with 2 tbsp water / 1/2 cup dahi in parts to the milk and keep stirring..
3. After a few minutes of stirring, milk will start curdling..
4. Strain the mixture and take chena (paneer) in a separate bowl. Don't squeeze all the water out..
5. Add sugar, semolina in the mixture and give it a thorough mix.
6. Now add 1 tbsp desi ghee,nuts, cardamon powder. Add some whey if the mixture is dry and mix till everything is combined well..
7. In a deep kadhai/ cooker put salt and let it heat for 10 minutes.
8. Grease a cake tin/ any steel container and pour the chena mixture in it..
9. After preheating the kadhai, put a stand and pur container over it. Cover and let it bake for about 30.35 minutes.
10. Demould once cool enough to touch.Garnish with some nuts and cardamon..