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RASMALAI (INDIAN SWEET SPECIALLY POPULAR IN WEST BENGAL,EASTERN PART OF INDIA )FLAT SHAPED PANEER OR COTTAGE CHEESE BALL SOAKED INTO CREAMY, SAFFRON FLAVORED MILK.
Happy Dusshera to all my readers...this is the last date of Navratri.We bengali celebrate this day as Vijaya dashami..
This day marks the end of Durga Puja, people immerse the idols of goddess Durga into the rivers and go to each others' house and exchange sweets and vijaya greetings. This day, the married women folk gather around the deity and smear her and themselves with sindur.To celebrate this occasion, I am presenting very popular Indian sweets Rasmalai.
Rasmalai or 'Rosomalai'(in bengali )is a very popular Bengali sweet, now it is also popular in through out the India also in Pakistan and Bangladesh. In Rasmalai, flat shaped spongy rasgullas or dumpling made with paneer or cottage or ricotta cheese soaked in sweet, thickened, chilled and saffron flavored milk.
Ras malai is believed to have originated inWest Bengal and was invented by K.C. Das in the year 1930.[Source-Wiki ]
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Author - Moumita
Preparation Time - 10 Minutes
Cooking Time - 40 Minutes
Servings - 12-15 Pieces
Recipe Category - Indian Sweet (Bengali )
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We can divide the methods of making Rasmalai into 3 steps .
1.Preparing Chena or Paneer or Cottage cheese
2.Preparing Rasmalai Patties or Flat Shaped Dumplings Made With Paneer or Cottage Cheese Ball
3 . Preparation Rasmalai Radbi or Creamy,Saffron Flavored Milk in which Rasmalai patties will be immersed.
1.PREPARING CHENA OR PANEER OR COTTAGE CHEESE .
Ingredients Of Making Chena or Paneer or Cottage Cheese
Cow Milk- 2Ltr
Lemon Juice-1 full lemon or Vinegar -2tsp (if required add more lemon juice or vinegar )
Sooji or Semolina -1tsp (optional )
Method Of Making Chena or Paneer or Cottage Cheese
Take a heavy bottomed vessel, add milk
Bring it to boil and keep stirring to avoid burning of milk..
Once the milk comes to boil, simmer the gas, start adding the lemon juice and keep stirring( if required,add more lemon juice) cook for few seconds until the milk solids gets separates from the whey. Switch off the heat.
Pour this curdled milk to the already lined muslin cloth over a strainer,squeeze out all the whey water then rinse chena under the tap water as much as possible....if you do not rinse the chena or paneer proper. .you will get the smell of lemon while having it.
Now hang the cloth covered chena or paneer tap for 30 minutes. Then remove it from tap and place a heavy weight on chena for another 30 minutes. It will help to squeeze more water from chena or paneer .
After that, remove the cheesecloth from the chenna or paneer.
The chena or paneer should not have too much moisture nor be too dry.
2.PREPARING RASMALAI PATTIES OR FLAT SHAPED DUMPLINGS MADE WITH PANEER OR COTTAGE CHEESE
Ingredients Of Making Rasmalai Patties Or Flat Shaped Dumplings Made With Paneer or Cottage Cheese.
Homemade Chena or Paneer or Cottage Cheese-1.5 cup
Sooji or Semolina -1tsp (optional )
Water-3cups
Sugar-2cups
Rose Water-1/2tsp
Method Of Making Rasmalai Patties Or Flat Shaped Dumplings Made With Paneer or Cottage Cheese
Take the paneer in a wider plate
Add 1 tsp sooji or rava or semolina, adding sooji or semolina helps to bind the mixture.
First mix the sooji with chenna and then begin to knead for 5 minutes
Knead it well with your palms for 5 to 6 minutes to get smooth texture.
This kneading process is very important and it decides the texture of rasmalai.
Divide the chena or paneer or cottage cheese into equal portions and roll into balls and then press lightly to make patties, taking care that there are no cracks.
Prepare all the rasmalai patties in this way.
In the mean while making sugar syrup
Take a large pan, take 2 cups sugar and 3 cups water....and bring it to boil.
You have to use a large pot or pan so that there is enough space for the rasmalai to cook and increase in size.
Mix and continue stir the sugar syrup until it will be dissolved....do this process on medium flame.
When the sugar syrup will start to boiling. ..drop Rasmalai Patties gently to the sugar syrup ...drop patties according to the size of your pan. ..rasmalais need more space to be cooked...the size of the rasmalais will be doubled on cooking on sugar syrup.
Cover the vessel with lid......cook 25 minutes on medium flame .Open the lid and gently stir every 5 minutes to ensure even cooking and puffing.
Turn off the gas, transfer he Rasmalai Patties into a serving bowl without sugar syrup.. let them be cool.After cooling down you can press the rasmalai patties in your palms. be gentle and don’t apply too much of pressure, as then the rasgullas will break. there should be no sugar syrup in the Rasmalais.
3.PREPARING RASMALAI RABDI OR CREAMY , SAFFRON FLAVORED MILK.
Ingredients Of Making Rasmalai Rabdi or Creamy Saffron Flavored Milk
Ingredients Of Making Rasmalai Rabdi or Creamy Saffron Flavored Milk
Cow Milk-1ltr
Sugar -1/4cup..can add more if required
Cardamom powder-1/4 tsp
A pinch of saffron soaked in 1tsp warm milk
Rose water -1tsp or a drop of rose essence
Saffron Strands -few
Almonds(soaked and peeled)-10 cut into thin sliced
Cashew nuts -5 (sliced )
Pistachios or Pesta-5(sliced)
Method Of Making Rasmalai Rabdi or Creamy Saffron Flavored Milk
Heat milk in a saucepan and bring it to boil..when milk will start boiling. .reduce the heat to medium.
Saffron Strands -few
Almonds(soaked and peeled)-10 cut into thin sliced
Cashew nuts -5 (sliced )
Pistachios or Pesta-5(sliced)
Method Of Making Rasmalai Rabdi or Creamy Saffron Flavored Milk
Heat milk in a saucepan and bring it to boil..when milk will start boiling. .reduce the heat to medium.
Stir continuously to keep milk from sticking to the bottom of the vessel..
Add sugar and stir till it dissolves. and add saffron soaked milk..add cardamom powder.
Cook until it's volume is reduced to half portion
Simmer the gas and drop rasmalai patties into this milk gently..
Add 3/4th portion of chopped dry fruits.
Cook for 3-4 minutes on low flame.
Switch off the heat, transfer the Rasmalai to the serving bow one by one with spatula,pour the milk on them...let them come to room temperature, then keep in the refrigerator for 3-4 hours.
After 3-4 hours, take out from fridge,garnish rasmalai with saffron strands and 1/4th chopped dry fruits...and serve.
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