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Rasmalai

Rasmalai is soft and spongy rasgulla in flavored creamy milk rabri and garnished with dry fruits. This delicious Bengali sweet is a perfect way to satisfy your sweet cravings. It is a melt in mouth delicious dessert that you will love!

Learn how to make easy rasmalai that is soft and melts in the mouth with step by step pictures.

Rasmalai comes from two words Ras, meaning Juice and Malai, meaning Cream. Rasmalai is a popular Bengali delicacy and is loved by one and all. The most loved Indian sweet. For me it is one of my favourite amongst the Indian sweets and i never get fed up with it.

It is made of homemade Indian cottage cheese ball by curdling the milk which is then cooked in sugar syrup and then soaked in sweetened flavored condensed milk.

These rasmalais are soft and juicy after soaking in the creamy thicken milk. It just melts in the mouth 😋😋. They are so delicious that I bet you can’t stop with one 😉.

Hope you like the recipe. Please do share your thoughts about the recipe with me.

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Ingredients to make Rasmalai (240 ml cup used):

For Rasgulla:
Whole milk – 1 litre
Curd – ½ cup or you can use 2 tbsp lemon juice or vinegar, but with yogurt they smell and taste perfect)
Ice cold water – 1 litre
Sugar – 1 cup
Water – 2 cups
cardamom powder – ¼ tsp

For Rabri:
Milk – 2 cups
Few Saffron strands
Sugar – ½ cup
Pistachios – 2 tbsp chopped (I have used almonds)

Step by step pictorial instructions to make Rasmalai:

We will start by keeping the milk in stove to evaporate it for the Rabri. And then make the Rasgullas. In a pan add 2 cups milk and bring to boil. Add few saffron strands and ½ cup sugar. Stir every 2 to 3 minutes.

Boil until the milk thickens and reduces to half the quantity. Set this aside.

Making Rasgulla:

In a pan bring the milk to a boil. Once it starts boiling pour the yogurt on it. Let the milk curdle. Turn off the heat and leave it for 2 mins.

Now add the chilled water to the curdled milk. Leave it aside for 2 to 3 minutes. Filter and collect the cheese in a cheese cloth or muslin cloth. Let the water drain completely. Then squeeze and drain off the water nicely.

Now knead the cheese well to make into a smooth dough for about 10 mins.

Take small portions of it and roll to tiny balls. If you want oval shape then flatten it gently. You can make your desired shape, round or oval. They should be tiny and not big as it will double when boiling in sugar syrup.

Making syrup and cooking of Rasgullas:

Add sugar and water to a wide pan and bring to a boil. To the boiling sugar syrup, add cardamom powder. Now add the flatten discs of cheese one after the other gently. Cover the pan with a lid and cook for 10 mins on a medium high flame. Gently stir every 2-3 minutes to ensure even cooking and puffing. They will double in size when done.

Now take out the rasgullas to a plate and cool them. Squeeze them gently in between your palms to remove sugar syrup. You can also do it with a stapula and spoon. Add the pistachios (reserving few for garnishing) and the rasgullas to the rabri. Garnish with remaining pistachios. Serve as it is or serve chilled.

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Rasmalai

Akum Raj Jamir

Rasmalai is soft and spongy rasgulla in flavored creamy milk rabri and garnished with dry fruits. This delicious Bengali sweet is a perfect way to satisfy your sweet cravings. It is a melt in mouth delicious dessert that you will love!

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Prep Time 20 minutes mins

Cook Time 25 minutes mins

Total Time 45 minutes mins

Course Dessert

Cuisine Indian

Servings 8 -10 nos

Equipment

• cooking pot
• Sauce pan
• cheese cloth or muslin cloth

Ingredients

  

For Rasgulla:

• 1 litre whole milk
• ½ cup curd/yogurt or 2 tablespoon lemon juice
• 1 litre ice cold water
• 1 cup sugar (200 grams)
• 2 cups water
• ¼ teaspoon cardamom powder or 2 cardamom crushed

For Rabri:

• 500 ml whole milk (½ litre)
• few safron strands
• ½ cup sugar (100 grams)
• 2 tablespoon pistachios (I used almonds)

Instructions

 

For Rabri:

• We will start by keeping the milk in stove to evaporate it for the Rabri. And then make the Rasgullas. In a pan add 2 cups milk and bring to boil. Add few saffron strands and ½ cup sugar. Stir every 2 to 3 minutes.
• Boil until the milk thickens and reduces to half the quantity. Set this aside.

Making Rasgulla:

• In a pan bring the milk to a boil. Once it starts boiling pour the yogurt on it. Let the milk curdle. Turn off the heat and leave it for 2 minutes.
• Now add the chilled water to the curdled milk. Leave it aside for 2 to 3 minutes. Filter and collect the cheese in a cheese cloth or muslin cloth. Let the water drain completely. Then squeeze and drain off the water nicely.
• Now knead the cheese well to make into a smooth dough for about 10 minutes.
• Take small portions of it and roll to tiny balls. If you want oval shape then flatten it gently. You can make your desired shape, round or oval. They should be tiny and not big as it will double when boiling in sugar syrup.

Making syrup and cooking of Rasgullas:

• Add sugar and water to a wide pan and bring to a boil. To the boiling sugar syrup, add cardamom powder.
• Now add the flatten discs of cheese one after the other gently. Cover the pan with a lid and cook for 10 minutes on a medium high flame.
• Gently stir every 2-3 minutes to ensure even cooking and puffing. They will double in size when done.
• Now take out the rasgullas to a plate and cool them. Squeeze them gently in between your palms to remove sugar syrup. You can also do it with a stapula and spoon.
• Add the pistachios (reserving few for garnishing) and the rasgullas to the rabri. Garnish with remaining pistachios. Serve as it is or serve chilled

Keyword bengali Rasmalai, creamy rabri, soft and spongy Rasmalai, traditional bengali sweet Rasmalai

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