Rasmalai is an Indian Dessert made of paneer cooked in Thickened milk (Rabri)
Rasmalai Recipe – Dhaba Style !!
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Prep Time 30 minutes
Cook Time 35 minutes
Total Time 1 hour 5 minutes
Servings 8
Ingredients
For Chenna / Crumbled Cheese
- Milk - 10 Cups
- Lemon Juice - 4 Tbsp
For Syrup to Cook Chenna
- Water - 8 Cups
- Sugar - 1 Cup
For Rabri / Ras
- Milk Full Fat - 8 Cups
- Sugar - 1 Cup
- Kesar / Saffron - Few Strands
- Cardamom / Elaichi Powder - 1/2 Tsp
- Almonds / Badaam - 2 Tbsp
- Pistachio / Pista - 2 Tbsp
Instructions
For Chhena
- Boil Milk on medium heat.
- Keep stirring in between so that milk does not get burnt at the bottom.
- Once the milk comes to a boil and starts to rise, add Lemon Juice.
- You will see the milk curdle and the whey color will turn light yellow.
- Strain this mixture in a cheesecloth to collect the Chenna / Crumbled Cheese.
- Wash it with Fresh water to get the lemon juice and flavor out of it.
- Wrap the Cheese cloth and squeeze to rid the Chenna of the liquid. Do not get rid of all the liquid as Chenna should be a little moist.
- Hang it for 30 minutes.
- After 30 minutes, you will see the Chhena has taken a nice round shape.
- Break the Cheena and knead it well until smooth.Don't over knead it, this is done just to smoothed the Cheena and remove the crumbles.
- Now take small amounts of this Chenna and make round balls of it. Then Flatten it lightly. Make sure you do not break the disk.
- Make disk's of entire mixture.
- Add Chenna balls to the syrup and cover with a lid.
- Cook for 15 minutes on medium heat.
- You will see the balls will increase in size almost double.
- Turn off the flame and keep it a side.
- Let it cool down then squeeze each disk gently to remove sugar syrup.
For Rabri / Ras
- Take Milk in a hevy bottom pan or kadai.
- Boil it on medium Heat while Stirring in between.
- Add Kesar, Almonds, Pistachios and Elaichi Powder. Mix well.
- Boil the milk till its reduced to Half. It will take about 20 to 30 minutes. Keep stirring and removing malai to the side from top of the boiling milk.
- Reduce the heat and add the Chenna Disk's.
- Cover with a lid and cook for 2 minutes.
- Let it cook down. Then Refrigerate and serve chilled.