Rasmalai

Name: Rasmalai
Total time: 3600 s
Yield: 3 people
Cuisine: Indian
Ingredients: 1 litre milk; 1 tsp cardamom powder; as required Kesar; 1 cup sugar; as required Vinegar or curd to make cottage cheese from milk

Basna Bidisha Bal @cook_28848534

Rasmalai is a classic Indian festive dessert made with milk, saffron, cardamom powder, cottage cheese. Basically it is a 3 step process , firstly curdling milk to make cottage cheese. Secondly, boiling the cottage cheese balls in sugar syrup. Thirdly, resting them in previously made rabdi and garnish with chopped nuts.
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Basna Bidisha Bal @cook_28848534

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Ingredients

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3 people

1 litremilk
1 tspcardamom powder
as required Kesar
1 cupsugar
as required Vinegar or curd to make cottage cheese from milk

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Steps

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1

To make rabdi:
First boil 3 cups of milk to a heavy bottom pot. When that start to boil add saffron. Stir it every few minutes to avoid burning.
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After 10mins add sugar. Keep stirring and move aside the cream which comes on the top.
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Then add 1/2tsp of cardamom powder. Stir well. Cook until the milk gets condensed to half of the quantity. Keep it aside. Rabdi is ready.
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In another heavy bottom pot boil 6 cups of milk. Add vinegar or curd until the milk curdles completely. When milk will be curdled add 2-3 ice cubes to keep cottage cheese soft.
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Drain it up in a thin cotton cloth and wrap up the cottage cheese in it. Then rinse it well under running water.
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Squeeze peoperly to remove excess water in cottage cheese.
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Take the cheese into a a plate and knead it well.
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Make small balls from kneaded cottage cheese. After that, make small balls then flatten them inbetween your two palms very carefully. Keep them aside.
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Bring 4cups of water in a pot. When water start to boil add 1 cup of sugar. Mix well. Stir until sugar gets melt in boiling water.
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Add 1/2 tsp of cardamom powder. Stir again.
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Add cottage cheese balls fastly into it. Cook for 10mins. not more than that. Otherwise balls will get hard.
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Switch off the flame. Rest for another 15mins. Take out cottage cheese balls from it. Immediately add them in to the previously made rabdi..
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Add chopped pistachios, cashews, almonds.
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Rest for 3-4hr. Now our delicious Rasmalai is ready to serve. Enjoy the delicious Rasmalai.