Yummy Rasmalai
Ras malai is a royal and delicious bengali dessert prepared with milk. It is a soft and spongy cottage cheese patties in dry fruit laced saffron flavored creamy milk rabri. The name ras malai comes from two words in Hindi: ras, meaning juice, and malai, meaning cream.
Ingredients
- For fresh Paneer:
- 1 gallon Millk
- 1 no Lemon juice
- 4 tbsp Vinegar
- For Rasmalai:
- Fresh Paneer
- 2 12 cups Sugar
- 5 cups Water
- 10 nos Pistachios powdered
- 12 tsp Cardamom powdered, Elakka
Instructions
- To make Paneer: 1)For preparing yummy rasmalai, boil milk gently and keep stirring in between so that the bottom does not stick.
- When it starts boiling, add vinegar so that it curdles. After 20 seconds remove from flame. Keep it aside covered for 2 min.
- Now strain the curdled milk in a muslin cloth. Tie the mouth of the cloth and hang it for atleast 3 hrs so that all the water drains off. Press the cloth so that the remaining water also drains. Use this paneer to make rasmalai.
- To make Rasmalai: 4)Take the paneer and make into a soft smooth dough in a food processor. It should be fluffy and not solid.
- Make small balls from it.
- Heat water and add 2 cups of sugar.
- Once the sugar melts, add the paneer balls.
- Cook for 20 min covered till the balls become fluffy.
- In a flat bottomed pan add half of the sugar water and bring it to boil.
- Add the balls, cardamom powder, pistachio powder, 2 tbsp sugar and boil for 2 min.
- Drain the balls from sugar water.
- Gently add to the boiling milk. Let them cook for 10 min on low flame.
- Remove it from the heat. Allow it to chill 3 to 4 hrs.
- Yummy rasmalai is ready. Serve chilled.
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