Rasgulla

Rasgulla is paneer cooked in sugar syrup.

Know more: http://www.answers.com/topic/rasgulla
See how to make paneer from my recipe for paneer

Serving: This recipe makes 8 - 10 rasgullas

Ingredients:

• Paneer - from 2 cups of milk OR 1/4 pound
• Sugar - 3 and 1/2 cups
• Water - 2 cups
• Cardamom powder - 1/4 tsp
• Semolina - 1tsp

How to make:

• Mix water and sugar in a vessel and get it to boil , keep stirring water in intervals of 3 mins
• Lower the flame of this sugar syrup
  
• Mix semolina into paneer and knead softly into dough for 3-4 mins
• Make about 8 -10 soft balls depending on your intended size for rasgulla (when done they puff up to almost double the size)
• Add these balls into hot syrup
• Mix cardamom powder to syrup
  
• Get the flame into medium and cook with a air tight lid for 10 mins
  
• Turn down the heat and let the syrup cool.
• Refrigerate the rasgullas with syrup and serve cold.

Ras Malai

Ras malai is a desert which is made from paneer and hence is a source of protein.
Know more: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ras_malai

Serving : This recipe makes 8 rasmalai.

Ingredients :

• Rasgulla - 8
  
• Milk - 1 cup
  
• Cardamom powder - 1/4 tsp
• Almonds - 4-5 (grated)
• Pistachios - 3-4 (grated)
• Sugar - 1 tbl spn
• Badam milk powder - 4tbl spn

How to make :

• Refer to my recipe to make rasgulla
• Heat milk in a pan on medium flame stirring every 3 mins so that milk wont burn
• After 10 mins add sugar and badam powder. I use MTR badam milk powder
• Continue to boil stir for 10 more mins
• Press rasgulla to take out the excess syrup and add to the pan
• Boil this mixture for 10 more mins stirring carefully so that the rasgulla does not break.
• Turn down the heat and pour this into a bowl
• Garnish with cardomom, badam and pistachios
  
• Refrigerate for 2-3 hours and serve cold.