RAS MALAI

INGREDIENTS:-

             Milk – 2 Litre

            Sugar – 2 Cup

            Lemon – 1

            Chironji – 1 tbsp

            Elaichi powder – ¼ tsp

            Almonds – 5 or 6

            Pistachios – 5 or 6

            Saffron strands – 4 or 5

HOW TO MAKE:-

              Firstly we will boil milk 1 litre of milk for making chena.

            When it is boiled, remove from flame and let it cool a little.

            Add lemon juice slowly into it to get fermented for making chena.

            When the milk is fermented, filter it using cotton cloth over a strainer.

            Squeeze out all the water from chena very carefully as it is hot.

            Also boil another 1 litre of milk in another pan to get it

thickened for ras malai.

Keep stirring the milk upto the bottom to avoid sticking to the base.

Pour cold water over chena to remove its sourness amd make it soft.

Again squeeze all water from chena.

Now press chena with fingers to make it soft for about 5 to 6 minutes.

Keep stirring the boiling milk over the flame.

In a pan, add sugar and 3 cups of water for making sugar syrup.

Keep kneading the chena to make it soft until syrup gets prepared.

Now make small round balls of chena and press a little from centre.

Transfer these chena balls in boiling sugar syrup and let it cook for

about 15 to 20 minutes. Keep checking in between.

The boiling milk would now gets almost thickened. Remove it from flame.

Add chopped almonds, cashews, chironji and elaichi powder and saffron.

Add 1 tbsp of sugar in it also and stir well.

The chena must have got spongy now in sugar syrup.

Let them cool. When cooled, shift these spongy chena balls to the thickened milk.

Cool it in refrigerator. Serve it chill.

Ras malai are ready to serve.

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