Name: Rasmalai Recipe | Ras Malai Recipe
Prep time: 5 min
Cook time: 120 min
Total time: 125 min
Ingredients: 4 cups Milk ( or 1 Litre); 1 tbsp Lemon Juice; 2.5 cups Sugar; 5 cups Water; 0.5 tsp Cardamom Powder; 1 litre Milk; 100 gms Sugar; 1 tsp Almond ( Chopped); 1 tsp Pistachio ( Chopped); Saffron Threads (Few Strands)

Dear Mam,
I did follow your recipe. Teh Sugar syrup created 1:2:: sugar :water is becoming thicker and chena /panner patties getting disfigured or zig zag shaped.
Also the Patties becomes so thick or hardened.
Can you suggest us better way to Handle this situation.
Thanks
Kannan Mahadeavn

	Ingredients for Paneer Patties
	4 Cups or 1 Litre Milk Full Fat Milk 1 Cup - 250 ml
	1 Tablespoon Lemon Juice
	2.5 Cups Sugar
	5 Cups Water
	0.5 Teaspoon Cardamom Powder
	Ingredients for Ras
	1 Litre Milk
	100 gms Sugar
	1 Teaspoon, Chopped Almond
	1 Teaspoon, Chopped Pistachio
	Few Strands Saffron Threads

1 Done 10 mins	Boiling Milk Heat a pan and add 1 litre of milk to the pan. Keep stirring until the milk starts to boil. We should get nice bubbles in the milk. Also keep stirring till you get bubbles. The stirring will help the fat to fully combine with the milk. If we don’t stir, then the fat will separate from the milk and we would not get soft and spongy cottage cheese. Meanwhile dilute the lemon juice with 1 tablespoon of water and keep it ready.
2 Done 10 mins	Curdling Process When the milk starts to boil, switch off the flame and add the lemon juice little by little gradually. When milk starts to curdle, stop adding the lemon juice. Add 1/2 cup of cold water or ice cubes which helps to stop the curdling process. Also the cold water or ice cubes take out the sourness of lemon juice which we have added. Place a muslin cloth or thin cotton cloth over a strainer. Strain the curdled milk through the cloth covered strainer.
3 Done 30 mins	Hung Paneer Cover the cloth and squeeze the cloth gently to remove excess water from the cheese. Also show the covered cloth under running water just to ensure the sourness of lemon is removed completely from the cheese. Squeeze the cloth gently and hang it for 30 minutes. In 30 minutes, the hung cloth would have removed most of the moisture from the cottage cheese.
4 Done 10 mins	Kneading Paneer If you open the cloth, you could see a ball of cottage cheese not completely dry, would have a little moisture and if you touch it would crumble into pieces as shown in the picture. lets knead the cottage cheese nicely using your palm. Knead the cheese for about 7-10 minutes to get soft and spongy cottage cheese. This knead is mandatory and is the main process to get softer malai
5 Done 10 mins	Making Paneer Patties After 10 minutes, the kneaded cheese would be like a dough. make small lemon sized balls out of the cheese dough and press it in the middle to make small patties. Make sure the sizes are small, because cooking the cheese patties in the sugar syrup doubles its size. Lets heat a cooker or a broad and thick bottomed vessel. Add water and sugar and bring it to boil. When the sugar syrup starts to boil with bubbles, add 2 tablespoon of milk to the boiling sugar syrup. Adding milk to the sugar syrup separates the dust from the sugar and makes it float at the top of the syrup. We can then easily remove the dust using a ladle. This step is optional. If you have clear white sugar, we can skip this. If any dust present in the sugar, it would make the syrup look slightly dull in colour and your malai would not look good in the dull sugar syrup.
6 Done 20 mins	Cook Paneer Patties Make sure your sugar syrup is absolutely boiling and add cardamom powder and then drop the cheese patties in the sugar syrup. Cook the cheese patties in the sugar syrup for about 20 minutes with the pan closed with the lid. Gently stir the cheese patties every 5 minutes till they are cooked. You could see the size of the cheese patties gets doubled when they are fully done. Let the malai in sugar syrup come to room temperature. Meanwhile lets prepare our Ras(Evaporated Milk)
7 Done 10 mins	Making Ras - Boil Milk In a heavy bottomed pan, heat the milk. Stir the milk to avoid overflow. Allow the milk to boil till it becomes thicker and reduces to half of its quantity
8 Done 30 mins	Cooling Ras Now add sugar and saffron threads and continuously stir for 5 Min’s and remove from flame. So our Ras (Evaporated milk is now ready). Allow it to come to room temperature and then refrigerate it.
9 Done 10 mins	Serving Process Take the malai (cottage cheese patties) out of the sugar syrup and place it in a serving bowl. Add chilled evaporated milk (Basundi) and Serve the yummy Rasmalai
10 Done	The soft and spongy Rasmalai is now ready to serve!

Ingredients

Ingredients for Paneer Patties

Ingredients for Ras