🇬🇧 Desserts: Chom Chom (Bangladesh)

At any time of the year we can travel without leaving home, remembering flavours of places we have already visited or trying new flavours that can inspire us to discover other places. This series with sweet recipes from around the world aims to inspire the reader to adopt the world as a home, to be open to new experiences and also to bring new possibilities to those who already adopt this lifestyle. In this text we have a typical Bangladeshi dessert called Chom Chom.

Ingredients:

• 3 litres of whole milk
• 1/2 cup of vinegar
• 2 tablespoons of sooji or rawa (semolina)
• 1/3 cup of Maida or all-purpose flour
• 2 or 3 green or elaichi cardamoms
• 4 cups of sugar
• Water

Directions:

1. First, prepare the chhena (cheese). Heat all the milk until it reaches the boiling point. When bubbles start to form, pour in the entire half cup of vinegar and turn off the heat. Drain with a muslin towel to keep only the solid part (the cheese).
2. In a clean, dry bowl, mix the sooji and maida with the cheese and knead well with your hands. Make sure the chhana dough is free of lumps and smooth. Shape the dough into balls the size of ping pong balls. Model them to your liking and keep them aside.
3. Heat about 10 cups of water and add the 4 cups of sugar and green cardamom. The water will shrink by half its volume. Touch it and squeeze it between two fingers and when you open your fingers the syrup should form a thread. When the sugar syrup has reached the right consistency, add the chhena balls.
4. When the cakes have reached the desired colour, remove from the heat. Keep the sweets together with the sugar syrup.

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