Rasmalai Recipe

Rasmalai Recipe:

Rasmalai Recipe – Rasmalai is a popular Bengali sweet delicacy made with Indian cottage cheese or chenna (paneer) discs in dry fruit laced saffron flavored creamy milk rabri which you can prepare anytime and treat your loved ones with this homemade sweet.

About the contributor, Ms. Shweta Sinha: This particular dish has been contributed by Shweta Sinha who is a food lover and stays in New Delhi, India with her husband and two children. She is a homemaker and is a perfectionist of her own kind. She is an organized person, and takes great care towards the health and well-being of her family. Shweta hails from Ranchi, Jharkhand.

We thank her immensely for her contribution and hope more to come from her end. Please find below a ‘Certificate of Appreciation’ has been issued by the Swakosh Team!

Please do try the recipe and comment and share it with your friends and family!

Ingredients:
Chena Balls:
Milk 1 litre
Vinegar 2tabsp
Sugar 1 cup
Water 2 cups
For Ras (thickened milk):
Milk 1 litre
Sugar 1 cup
Green cardamom powder 1 teaspoon
Chopped almonds, pistachio, cashew nuts
Saffron 10-15 strands dipped in 1/2 cup of milk

Method:
First boil milk in a pan. Take vinegar in a cup add 1/4 cup of water to it. Slowly add this mixture to boiling milk. milk will curdle. Drain the curdled milk in a muslin cloth and hang it to drain water from it. Allow it to cool down. Now knead this chena/paneer for at least 10-15 min. or until this becomes smooth. Now make small balls of it.
On the other pan take 1 cup of sugar and add 2 cups of water and start boiling it. Once this sugar syrup boils add the chena balls to it and cook it for 15 -20 min covering the pan.
For making the ras (syrup) boil the other litre of milk. Add the cardamom powder and finely chopped dry fruits and saffron water to it. Boil the milk till 2/3 of it remains.
Add the chena balls to this reduced milk. Rasmalai is ready to serve. Garnish with chopped pistachio and serve chilled.

Recipe Servings: 4
Prep Time: 20 mins
Cook Time: 20 mins
Total Cook Time: 40 mins

About Rasmalai Recipe: Rasmalai is a popular Bengali sweet delicacy made with Indian cottage cheese or chenna (paneer) discs in dry fruit laced saffron flavored creamy milk rabri which you can prepare anytime and treat your loved ones with this homemade sweet.