Home

Ingredient Top 5 Meal / Dish Types Holidays/Special Occasions Ethnic / Global Cuisines Diets/Eating Plans Main Ingredient Flavors Equipment Difficulty / Experience Level

Home Dish Ras Malai

Ras Malai

Introduce

Chef :

Aiman Ishtiaque

Ras Malai

Rasmalai is a delicious Bengali sweet now popular globally! Ras Malai is cooked is Chashni or sugar syrup. And it is served with Malai or thickened milk. Anyone who has tasted it can never say no to it. Here is a Rasmalai recipe that you can easily cook at home. #mommasrecipe #Ramadan

Ingredient

1 liter

full cream milk for preparing Chhena

2 teaspoon

lemon juice or white vinegar

100 grams

sugar

3 cups

water

1 tablespoon

milk (optional to remove impurities from syrup)

1 liter

full cream milk

2 pinch

saffron threads

15-16

chopped almonds (finely chopped into long pieces)

15-16

chopped pistachio (finely chopped into long pieces)

3-4

green cardamom seeds (crushed/powder)

Cooking instructions

* Step 1

How to prepare fresh Chena To prepare fresh Chena, pour full cream milk in a heavy-bottomed vessel and put it over medium flame to boil.

* Step 2

After the milk starts to boil, reduce the flame to low. Add around 2 tablespoons of vinegar or lemon juice in the milk and continue stirring the milk. You will see the milk starts to curdle. If the milk does not curdle completely add little more vinegar or lemon juice and stir it well with a spoon.

* Step 3

When the milk gets curdled completely, switch off the flame and let it rest for 2-3 minutes to settle.

* Step 4

After 2-3 minutes add 1-2 cup of cold water in the pan. This will help not to overcook the curdled milk and thus we will get soft Chena perfect for our Ras Malai Recipe.

* Step 5

Now place a large steel strainer lined with thin muslin cloth over a large bowl. Pour the curdled milk over this muslin cloth lined over the strainer, to collect the Chena on top.

* Step 6

Collect the open edges of the muslin cloth and remove the excess water by lifting the cloth and pressing it lightly.

* Step 7

Then Rinse this Chena under cold running water, to remove it's acidic behavior and sour taste that it has acquired from vinegar or lemon juice.

* Step 8

Now and tie the open edges of the cloth together to form a bundle. And hang it for around an hour to remove excess water from it. After an hour of hanging our, Chena will be ready to prepare Ras Malai.

* Step 9

How to make Rasmalai Put the Chena on a plate and rub it with your hands to turn it into smooth and soft. Rub the Chena till the grain gets removed in it. As soon as the grains disappear from the Chena, stop rubbing it. A very soft dough like Chena is ready.

* Step 10

Take out a small piece of Chena from this soft Chena dough. Then roll it between your palms to make small balls. Once it turns into a ball, press it between the palms and make a thick flat spherical shape.

* Step 11

Similarly, make a thick flat spherical shape from the rest of Chena and keep it on a plate. Cover them with a wet cloth and keep aside.

* Step 12

You can easily make 10 to 12 Rasmalai from this much Chena.

* Step 13

How to cook Rasmalai For cooking Rasmalai we need to prepare sugar syrup first. For this mix 300 grams of sugar with 3 cups of water in a vessel and keep it on high flame over the gas.

* Step 14

When the water starts boiling and the sugar dissolves completely in the water, check for impurities in sugar syrup. If you find impurities in sugar syrup, then add a tablespoon on milk in the syrup and let it boil.

* Step 15

After 2 minutes, you will observe all the impurities of sugar that have solidified and get collected at the top in a cloudy foam type texture. Remove all these foam from syrup with the help of a strainer and you will find a crystal clear sugar syrup.

* Step 16

Once the sugar syrup is crystal clear put all the chenna balls in this boiling syrup and let them boil for 18-20 minutes.

* Step 17

Always keep the syrup boiling and bubbling to cook Rasmalai thus always keep gas on high flame. Cooking the Rasmalai this way turns them to almost double in size while soaking the syrup.

* Step 18

As they turn double in size turn off the gas and let the Rasmalai cool down while keeping them in the syrup.

* Step 19

How to prepare thickened milk for Rasmalai To thicken the milk, put the milk in a heavy-bottomed vessel and keep it over the gas on medium flame.

* Step 20

Once the milk starts boiling, keep it constantly stirring with a spoon. Also, add saffron and chopped dry fruits in it.

* Step 21

Keep cooking, till the quantity of milk reduces to it's half. Once the milk is reduced to half add sugar and cardamom powder in the milk and cook for another 2-3 minutes while stirring continuously, till the sugar dissolves completely.