So do try this delicious Chhena Poda. If you tried my recipe and enjoyed fully, then please share some pictures of your creation with me. This popular dessert will surely make a center piece of attraction in parties. The whole process is so easy and simple and also a must try dish for sweet craving persons. This has basically a distinct strong flavor from caramelization of sugar. Fresh and soft chhena is the key factor of this sweet cake. After baking, the result is a soft cheese cake with caramelization all around. This is prepared by baking a mixture of some well kneaded homemade fresh chhena (cottage cheese), sugar, dry fruits (cashews & raisins) and sooji until brown in color. Now-a-days, this dish is becoming a bit popular and anybody can get chance to taste this sweet dessert in all over Odisha, particularly much in coastal areas. And on the nextday, surprisingly he found an amazingly delicious sweet dish and named that as Chhena Poda. One-day instead of throwing out the left over chhena or cottage cheese while closing his shop, he decided to mix some sugar and nuts to those left overs and then placed inside the oven overnight (the oven was already tuned off and he didn’t put on, but was still warm). The history of this chhena poda tells that this smoky and sweet delicacy was originated in Nayagarh district of Odisha during the first half of the twentieth century by Sudarshana Sahoo. The odia word ‘poda’ means burnt and ‘ chhena‘ means cottage cheese, so Chhena Poda literally indicates a burnt cheesecake. And this is believed that this sweet dish is one of the most favorite dessert of Lord Jagannath in Puri, Odisha. Chhena Poda is an extremely popular smoky flavored sweet delicacy from the state of Odisha in Indian subcontinent.
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