Rasmalai/Rossoamalai/Juicy Cottage cheese in flavored milk!!

Rasmalai/Rossoamalai/Juicy Cottage cheese in flavored milk!!

Preparation Time: 10minutes

Cooking Time: 1 hour

Total Cooking Time:1:10 minutes

Rasmalai is one of our favourite sweet and it's liked by all odiya's too. And a very famous dessert served in Wedding parties and special occasion's. It's liked by many of Indians because its very juicy, soft and less sweet compared to other.
Rasmalai/rossomalai is a dessert originating from the Indian subcontinent. The name ras malai comes from two words in Hindi: ras, meaning "juice", and malai, meaning "cream". It has been described as "a rich cheesecake without a crust".
Ras malai consists of sugary white cream, or yellow-coloured (flattened) balls of chenna soaked in malai (clotted cream) flavoured with cardamom. It is cooked in sugar syrup and milk with saffron, pistachios. 

Course: Dessert

Cuisine: East India

Servings: 2 person

Ingredients:

1 liter milk
Rasmalai balls 4

1/4 cup sugar

6 Cardamom

Pistachios 6 nos Blanched and finely chopped

Few saffron strands

For cottage cheese
Milk half liter
Lemon juice 2tbsp

For Rasmalai balls

1 cup cottage cheese

1/2 tsp cornflour

For sugar Syrup

1 cup sugar

3 cup water

Procedure for making chenna/cottage cheese 

• Place your saucepan and pour milk in it
• Bring it to boil
• Now add lemon juice to it
• Boil it in medium flame and milk will start curddling
• Once curdled cook for 10 minutes(chenna/cottage cheese will completely get separated)
• Wash in running water ,to get rid off the lemon essence from it
• And now tie in a muslin cloth and let all the water drain's out
• Chenna/Cottage cheese is ready

Procedure for making Rasmalai balls

• Once all water drained from cottage cheese and then transfer it into a plate
• Take a sauce pan and sugar and water and keep it for boiling and sugar get dissolved
• Now start kneading bu using your palms for 2 minutes
• Now add cornflour and start kneading till 10 minutes
• Till the ghee start sticking in your palm and stop kneading there
• Divide into 4 equal parts and form balls and press keeping it on middle of your both palms and flatten it
• Once flatten balls are done drop it in the sugar syrup and cook it till it's spongy,soft and evenly cooked
• Rasmalai balls are ready

Procedure:

•   In the mean time take heavy bottom pan pour 1 ltr milk let it boil then add sugar 
• Let all the sugar break down
• Then add crushed cardamom( crush it using hand pestle)
• Add few saffron strands  
• As the layer of cream begins to form on the surface of the milk
•  Take off to the side of the vessel
• The process continues until the milk is exhausted(Keep stirring in interval of 5 mins)
• The rabri thus formed is extremely creamy and very thick consistency
• Take out in a bowl and keep it aside for cooling.
• Once cooled completely add the spongy Rasmalai balls to it and keep it aside for an hour
• Granish it with chopped,blanched and pistachios
• Your Yummy and delicious,soft and juicy Rasmalai is ready!!
• Serve it chill  or at room temperature!

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