India is known for its vivid variety of cuisines that comes from various regions. Bengal being one of an important region of India has blessed us with Culture, Arts & Literature, Politics, Football and Sweets. Bengal sweets are suppose to have a world wide recognition. Commonly known as ‘Bangali Mithai’ in sweet shops, the Bengals sweets have a wide range of variety and tastes superior than any other sweet.
Roshogulla, Sondesh, Chamcham, Payesh, Patishapta etc are just some popular sweets given by West Bangal. I myself got an opportunity to visit couple of Bengali marriages and believe me it’s the only community i guess who serve a huge variety of sweets that anything else. Attending a Bengali marriage is like visit to heaven to all those who have a sweet tooth like me…lol
One amongst their many sweet delicacies is the ‘Lengcha’ . It is the famous fried paneer based bengali sweet drowned in sweet syrup and served with a handful of dry fruit toppings.
Though i am a big time Gulab Jamun lover, hence it was quite obvious for me to fall for Lengcha too.
Here is the recipe of Lengcha which is adapted from http://www.peekncook.com/Show-A-Recipe/4/lengcha
| Prep Time | 10 minutes |
| Cook Time | 45 minutes |
| Servings |
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- 2 cups All purpose flour Maida /
- 1 cup Milk powder - (i used Amul Powder)
- 1 cup Cottage cheese Paneer / - (grated)
- 1/2 cup Heavy cream
- 1/2 tbsp Baking Powder
- 4 Cardamom
- 4 tbsp Ghee butter / clarified
- Cooking oil - for frying
Ingredients
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- Take a large bowl and mix maida, paneer, milk powder and black cardamom (seeds) together.
- Add heavy cream into the dry mixture and make a soft dough.
- Meanwhile prepare the sugar syrup. Take a pan and add water, sugar and cardamom seeds and set to boil. Make a sticky syrup till u acquire 1 string while checking with your index finger and thumb.
- Heat oil in a wok.
- Meanwhile take the dough and pinch a lemon sized ball and make a cylindrical shape. Following the same method, make more cylindrical shapes from rest of the dough.
- Fry them in batches till golden in color. Make sure the oil is not too much hot else the lengchas might get burnt.
- Now add the fried lengchas in the sugar syrup immediately.
- Allow it to cool.
- Garnish it with chopped dry fruits like Almonds/Pistachios. and then serve.
2 comments
made the lengcha…nicely describe n came out very tasty!
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