Quick and Easy Milk Cake(Kalakand) from chenna/paneer

Kalakad is a famous Indian Sweet made out of milk which involves a hours of preparation.
Here is a quick and easy way to make it.
See below for the video recipe.

Ingredients:

2 L Milk

2 tsp lemon juice.

100gm sugar

1/2 tsp cardamom powder

Procedure:

Boil the milk in a pan, when it starts boiling simmer the flame and add the lemon juice diluted in 2 tbsp of water slowly little by little.

Switch off the flame and stirr it, milk should curdle and the milk solids get separated and the light green coloured whey will be seen.

At this stage filter the milk solids from whey and take it aside. These milk solids is called chenna or  paneer.

Now take a heavy bottomed pan and put the chenna in to it and cook it on medium flame. When  it starts bubbling add the sugar and cardamom powder and cook until it starts leaving the sides and thickens. Take a bowl or plate or mould where we want to put the kalakand and grease it.

After the mixture starts leaving sides, switch off flame and transfer it in to the greased mould.

Press it with a spoon or with back of a glass to level it, and let it cool till it reaches room temperature and then keep in the refrigerator for 10 min.

After 10 min take it out from fridge and cut it and serve. EWnjoy quick and easy Kalakand.