Soft Rasmalai Recipe
A delicious dessert made with cheese patties dipped in concentrated milk syrup and garnished with nuts.
Servings: 10 rasmalai
Calories: 248kcal
Ingredients
For cheese patties (chena or paneer)
- 5 cups whole milk
- 2 tbsp lemon juice (2 big lemons)
- ½ tsp cornflour
For milk syrup
- 5 cups whole milk
- ½ cup sugar
- 20 pistachios cut into small pieces
- 7 almonds cut into small pieces
- 7 cashew cut into small pieces
- 4 green cardamom powdered
- 30 saffron strands dipped in 2 tbsp warm milk
For sugar syrup
- ½ cup sugar
- 4 cups water
Instructions
To make sugar syrup
- Boil water and sugar in a wide vessel . This will be used to cook the cheese patties made in the next step.
Make cheese patties (chena /paneer)
- Boil milk and take off heat. Let it cool for 3 minutes.
- Add 2 tbsp water to the lemon juice.
- Add the lemon juice to the milk in 3 additions stirring gently with every addition.
- Once the milk curdles , pour into a cheese cloth placed on a strainer and bowl.
- Wash it with cold water to get rid of any taste of lemon.
- As the cheese cools, knead it gently with your fingers, using both hands for about 5 minutes till it is soft. The kneading is very important to get soft patties.
- Next add the corn flour and knead again for 4 minutes .It may get a little sticky at this point.
- Make about 10 balls and flatten lightly .
- Add them to boiling sugar syrup one by one , so that the temperature of the boiling syrup does not come down.Adding all at once will bring the temperature down.
- Cook them closed on high flame for 15 minutes. They will expand to a bigger size. Do check from time to time .
- Switch off heat when done and let it stand for about 30 minutes. Drain them one by one , squeezing the syrup out and add them to the milk syrup that is boiled and cooled.
To make milk syrup
- Add saffron to 2 tbsp of warm milk and keep aside.
- Boil milk and reduce it to half.
- Add nuts and cardamom powder .
- Add the milk infused with saffron to it .
- Once the milk is reduced and thickened, add sugar and let it completely dissolve.Cool it for about 30 minutes.
To assemble the dessert
- In a serving dish, pour the milk syrup .
- Drain the cheese patties from the sugar syrup and add them to the milk syrup.
- Garnish with chopped nuts.
Notes
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- Make cheese patties, milk syrup, and sugar syrup simultaneously. Once the cheese patties are ready, they can be immediately cooked in the boiling sugar syrup. Once they are cooked, the milk syrup is also ready to take in the cheese patties.
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- Kneading the cheese well is very important to get soft patties. First knead the cheese for about four minutes, later add cornflour and knead again for another five minutes
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- Add the cheese patties to the sugar syrup one by one, not all at once. This is so the temperature of the boiling water is maintained.
Nutrition
Serving: 35g | Calories: 248kcal | Carbohydrates: 33g | Protein: 9g | Fat: 10g | Saturated Fat: 5g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 1g | Monounsaturated Fat: 3g | Cholesterol: 29mg | Sodium: 98mg | Potassium: 411mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 32g | Vitamin A: 404IU | Vitamin C: 1mg | Calcium: 311mg | Iron: 0.3mg
