chum chum

Ingredients:

250 gms cottage cheese (paneer)

2 tblsp refined flour (maida)

1 cup sugar (cheeni)

1 cup water

2 - 3 drop lemon colour

100 gms condensed milk (unsweetened)

1/4 tsp green cardamom (chhoti elaichi) powder

few saffron (kesar) strands

How to make chum chum:

Melt sugar in water and heat up to make a thin syrup.

Knead the paneer with flour and shape into oval shaped fingers, mix in them to the sugar syrup and boil for eight minutes.

Take off from heat up and mix in lemon color to the syrup. Cool for a while and take off the chum-chums from the syrup.

Mix in saffron and cardamom powder to sugarless, creamy, condensed milk. spread this on each piece and serve cold.