Creamy Indian Desert Rasmalai

Yukte Sharma
Yukte Sharma @cook_3018416

‘Ras’ means Juice/ syrup and ‘Malai’ means cream. Rasmalai consists of saffron infused yellow coloured flattened balls of Indian cottage cheese soaked in reduced milk flavoured with cardamom.
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Creamy Indian Desert Rasmalai

‘Ras’ means Juice/ syrup and ‘Malai’ means cream. Rasmalai consists of saffron infused yellow coloured flattened balls of Indian cottage cheese soaked in reduced milk flavoured with cardamom.
For more recipes visit
www.oventricksbyyukte.com

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Ingredients

1 hour 30 mins
3 servings
  1. 2 literfull fat milk
  2. 1 1/2 cupsugar
  3. 1/2 cupsugar
  4. 1 tbsplemon juice
  5. 1 pinchof teaspoon saffron
  6. 3cardamom pods
  7. 3 cupwater
  8. 1 tbsprose water
  9. 2 tbspchopped nuts of your choice (optional)

Cooking Instructions

1 hour 30 mins
  1. 1

    Boil 1 litre milk and add lemon juice to the boiling milk. Do not reduce the heat. The milk with start separating the curd and whey.

  2. 2

    Once the curd is fully separated, strain out the curd and run it under cold water and set it aside.

  3. 3

    Put the remaining milk in a thick bottom pan and add saffron and 3 crushed cardamom pods. Leave the milk to reduce on low heat, keep stirring occasionally so that it does not burn. Remove once it is reduced to 40%.

  4. 4

    Blend the separated curd in a blender. Knead the curd till the fat is separated. It will have a paste like consistency then you can form a dough. Make even balls from the dough and flatten them slightly.

  5. 5

    Boil 1 ½ cup sugar in water in wide pan. Add the flatten dough balls to the water and boil for 18-20 mins. The water should be boiling all the time.

  6. 6

    Remove once the balls have doubled its size. Give the balls a little squeeze, be careful as they can break. Handle very gently.

  7. 7

    Add remaining sugar to the reduced milk and dissolve then add the balls to the reduced milk and refrigerate for 4-5 hours.

  8. 8

    Garnish with chopped nuts of your choice and enjoy your Rasmalai!

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Comments (2)

ak47bc
ak47bc @cook_4442665
You could also use ricotta cheese in the recipe as well. It has a more richer flavour and holds better than cottage cheese as you can bake the ricotta then cut it into squares after.

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