A Sweet Paneer and Milk Dessert: Ras Malai.
You can cook A Sweet Paneer and Milk Dessert: Ras Malai using 12 ingredients and 17 steps. Here is how you cook that.
Ingredients of A Sweet Paneer and Milk Dessert: Ras Malai
- You need of For the paneer balls:.
- It's 150 grams of Paneer (Homemade Indian cheese:.
- Prepare of Syrup to cook the paneer:.
- You need 800 ml of ★Water.
- Prepare 200 ml of ★Sugar.
- You need of For the milk sauce:.
- You need 600 ml of ■Milk.
- It's 1 tbsp of ■Sugar.
- You need 2 of pods / or 1/2 teaspoon ■Cardamon.
- Prepare of Toppings:.
- Prepare 1 dash of Almonds.
- Prepare 1 dash of Pistacio nuts, if you have some.
A Sweet Paneer and Milk Dessert: Ras Malai step by step
- Make a batch of paneer cheese (see. Drain well..
- Put the paneer on a plate, and knead well using the pads of your thumbs, as if you were kneading bread dough..
- After 3 to 5 minutes, the paneer that was all separate before will graduallly come together..
- When it has come together nicely, form into a square..
- Cut the square into 16 pieces..
- Roll each cut piece gently into a ball with your palms. Press down lightly with your thumb to form flat balls..
- This is how they look when they're all formed..
- Put the ★ water and sugar in a large pan, and bring to a boil to make the sugar syrup. Please adjust the amount of sugar to taste..
- When the syrup comes to a boil, add the paneer balls one by one. Cover securely with a lid and simmer over medium heat for about 15 minutes..
- The paneer balls will swell up to about twice their original size. At this point they will be sponge-like in texture..
- Put the balls and syrup together onto a plate and leave to cool down until you can touch them with your hands..
- Combine the ■ milk, cardamon, and sugar and heat slowly over medium heat until it comes to a boil. Stir up from the bottom occasionally so that it doesn't burn..
- Take the paneer from step 11 out of the sugar syrup and press lightly with your fingers to extract some of the syrup. Rest on a plate..
- Add the lightly squeezed out paneer to the boiled milk from step 12. Let the spongelike paneer absorb the milk..
- Simmer for 3 to 4 minutes over medium heat. Stir it up occasionally so the bottom doesn't get burned..
- After cooling down the sauce to about room temperature, chill it for 2 hours in the refrigerator. If you are in a hurry, cool the whole pan in ice water..
- Put 3 to 5 paneer dumplings per serving on a plate, top with some nuts, and it's done. In Hindi this dish is called Ras malai..