Rasmalai Recipe with Tips and Tricks

Diwali Special:

A popular Bengali dessert – Rasmalai, is a royal sweet often served at weddings and eaten on special occasions like Diwali festival.

Soft, small, and spongy flattened balls are made by curdling the milk which is dunked in flavored sweet milk, it is a heavenly delicious Indian dessert!

Ingredients

- whole milk - sugar - almond - pistachios  - cardamom - fennel seeds

Ras

Boil milk until it reduces. Meanwhile, take the seeds in a mortar and pestle and make a coarse powder. Mix saffron in a bowl with hot milk and set aside.

Once the milk is reduced, add sugar, cardamom-fennel seeds powder, almonds, pistachios, and saffron mix. Mix well and let it cook for another 5 minutes. Keep aside.

Take the milk in a heavy bottom pot, bring the milk to a boil. Switch off the flame, keep the pot aside for about 5 minutes.

Paneer balls (malai)

Now add vinegar a tablespoon at a time and stir continuously. Once you see the green color whey separate COMPLETELY, stop adding vinegar.

Line a strainer with a muslin cloth over a big bowl, drain the curdled milk and collect the whey. Gather all the edges of the cloth, squeeze out the water as much as possible.

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