A Sweet Paneer and Milk Dessert: Ras Malai
- 150 grams Paneer (Homemade Indian cheese:
- 800 ml Water
- 200 ml Sugar
- 600 ml Milk
- 1 tbsp Sugar
- 2 pods / or 1/2 teaspoon Cardamon
- 1 dash Almonds
- 1 dash Pistacio nuts, if you have some
- 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.
paneer, water, sugar, milk, sugar, cardamon, almonds, nuts
Taken from cookpad.com/us/recipes/144215-a-sweet-paneer-and-milk-dessert-ras-malai (may not work)