Ras Malai

My liking for sweets makes me try for a new recipe everyday. I cant live without eating deserts and sweets be it Indian or International. My tongue craves for it like anything. So here I am posting a very simple tried and tested recipe for these sumptuous desert, First we should know as to what is Ras Malai. It is a dish made with home-made cottage cheese, made into sweet dumplings and served with thickened milk with a tinge of saffron and mixed nuts like almonds and pistachios.

Rasmalai

Ingredients:

For making the chena for the Ras malai:

1lt milk

2tbsp Lemon Juice

1 cup sugar

4 cups water

For the Rassa:

1lt milk
3tbsp Sugar

1tsp Cardamom Powder

1/2tsp Saffron

2tbsp mixed nuts (Almonds + Pistachios)

Procedure:

• Boil milk in pan. When it starts to boil add in lime juice.
• Stir gently.
• Then take a muslin cloth, separate paneer from water. Press well.
• Hang the cloth on the tap to remove excess water for 30 minutes.

In the meanwhile for the rassa:

• Boil the remaining 1lt milk in a pan, when it starts to boil, lower the flame.
• Add in cardomom powder, and saffron.
• Mix well.
• Let it simmer on low flame, till milk is reduced to half of what it was.

After 30 minutes:

• Take the chena, make sure that there is no water in the paneer.
• If required, grind it the mixer.
• Knead it into a smooth dough.
• Now divide this into small flat balls.(Make sure that there is no crack in the ball) 
• Now take a pressure cooker, add water and sugar.
• When it starts to boil, slowly put the paneer discs into it.
• Close the lid.  
• After one whistle, switch off the gas. 
• Take out the Paneer discs from the cooker, after 5 minutes.
• Squeeze each disc slighlty to remove the excess water.
• The Rasa would be thickened by now. 
• Add in mixed nuts in it.
• Now add the chena discs into it.
• Serve chilled.