Name: MANGO STUFFED CHUM CHUM recipe by Archana Bhargava at BetterButter
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 30 min
Total time: 40 min
Yield: 4
Ingredients: 500 ml milk; 1 tsp white vinegar or lime juice; 1/2 cup chopped mangoes; 1 cup sugar; 1/2 cup water; 2 - 3 tbsp dessicated coconut; 1 tbsp rose syrup

Instructions

Place a saucepan with milk on the gas flame.
Let one boil comes then switch off the gas
Add vinegar
Mix well , the milk will curdle and chenna is formed
Strain the chenna in a muslin cloth and wash it properly , so that if any sourness of the vinegar is there it will go away , the cloth is kept on a big strainer above a big bowl
Squeeze out the extra water from the chenna
After keeping it for an hour it will become like this
Take it out in a thali and crumble it with your hands
Mash it with your palm for 5 - 7 minutes , until becomes smooth
The mixture will become like dough
Make equal sized balls from the dough , take chopped mangoes also
Flatten one ball on your palm and put some chopped mangoes in the center
Seal it properly from all the sides and give it a shape of a chum chum , round flat one
In this way prepare all the chum chum
On the meantime put sugar and water in a patila
Place this on the gas to make sugar syrup
Cook it on medium heat until it becomes of one string consistency
Put the ready stuffed flat balls in the boiling sugar syrup
After 15 minutes they will swell and come up , it means they are cooked
After boiling with chum chum the syrup will become one and a half string consistency
Let them cool down
In a bowl add dessicated coconut and rose syrup
And mix them well
Now take out one chum chum and roll it in the coconut mixture
It will stick on the chum chum
Cut one piece from the center to see the stuffing

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