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Friday, November 20, 2009

Home-made Rasmalai.

Rasmalai or Rasamalai is a popular Bengali dessert. It takes some time and effort to prepare but tastes great. It is a light and healthier sweet, as it is cooked by boiling method and not deep fried.

Ingredients for Flattened Paneer discs
Full cream milk-1 liter
Maida/ All purpose flour-1tsp
Ghee-1tsp
Sugar-400gms
Water-1cup
Lemon juice-1 to 2tsp

Ingredients for Flavored milk
Full cream milk-1/2 liter
Saffron strands-8
Cardamom powder-1tsp
Sugar-250gms
Roasted and Minced Almonds, Pistachios and Cashews

Method
In a large pot bring 1 liter full cream milk to boil. When boiling add lemon juice to make the milk curdle. Strain the curdled milk in a muslin cloth and squeeze well to remove the excess water. Add paneer( curdled milk) and maida to  bowl, make a loose dough combining both. Divide the dough into equal portions, grease palms with ghee. Make smooth balls and flatten into discs with palms.

In a deep pan, add 400gms of sugar and 1 cup of water. Mix well until the sugar dissolves completely, bring sugar mixture to boil. Boil for about 10 mins and bring the sugar syrup to room temperature. 

Next boil enough water in a large pot, when boiling add the prepared paneer discs. At first the paneer discs will sink in the boiling water and will raise slowly to the top when the paneer discs are cooked. Drain the paneer discs from the boiling water and add it to the sugar syrup. Allow the paneer discs to soak in sugar syrup for about 2 hours.

For making flavored milk. In a deep pan add 1/2 liter full cream milk, saffron and sugar. Mix well till the sugar is well dissolved in the milk, bring the mixture to boil until the milk slightly thickens. Add the cardamom powder and minced nuts. Bring the flavored milk to room temperature.

Now add the soaked paneer discs to flavored milk, allow the paneer discs to soak in the flavored milk for at least one hour. Refrigerate the Rasmalai and serve cold.

Sending this recipe to Radhika's "Cook for yourself" event.

13 comments:

Unknown said...

Omg, this rasamalai looks tremendous!!!very tempting dear..my fav sweet..would love to try this..thanks for sharing.

San said...

Well i was crazy about this during

college days.Rasamalai has always

made me feel cool n get relaxed,i

eat them lil by lil n i will tempt

all the others around they will

end up eating many :) Lovely

rasmalai mye.

prasu said...

Advanced B'day wishes dear.......lovely gifts, rasmali looks absolutely delicious....pls. vist www.myculinaryworld-prasu.blogspot.com and leave ur sugesstions and comments.

RV @ Food for 7 Stages said...

am drooling mye... I have never thought of attempting this at home... by posting such recipes you are proving the title of your blog

Anonymous said...

rasamali looks mouthwatering. last weke i tried rasamalai and u know wht happened it became kheer after all effort:(..will try ur recipe.

Namitha said...

oooh..that's too tempting Mye..am drooling here :-)

Jeyashris Kitchen said...

happy bday..Both the recipes looks amazing.Even i tried rasamalai once.Came out very well.my fav sweet.nice click dear

Anonymous said...

daaaa,wat a tempting post!
pls do collect ur award dear

my kitchen said...

My favorite one,absolutely delicious

Shri said...

I have always wanted to make this from scratch..Looks fantastic!Recipe bookmarked!

Anupama said...

Absolutely yum!

cookeaze said...

This looks amazing. I've never had much luck with making rasamalai but this is definitely tempting me to try again.

gtyuk said...

irresisitible one!!! that's soooo perfect; milk sweets have always been my weakness!!