Milk powder Rasgollas
A useful handy recipe to make yummy super soft spongy rasgollas with milk powder...just another one of my recipes to see how far i can go with milk powder!...
Ingredients
1 cup milk powder
2 tbsp lime juice diluted or a little more to curdle boiled milk ( made from milk powder )
1.5 cups sugar
4 cups water (to make rasgollas syrup to boil and cook the paneer balls.)
Additional thick sugar syrup to serve the prepared rasgollas .
1 cup sugar and 1/2 cup water.
Method
first make paneer from milk powder, after mixing the milk powder with hot water, stirring all the while to remove all lumps.
keep the milk consistency thick like whole milk.
now boil this milk, when it comes to a boil, switch off gas, add lime juice answiat till milk curdles completely .
now drain this in a colander with a thin clean cloth kept over the colander,
Gather the cloth at the sides, and hand the bundle from a tap , or just wring it well, and keep over a colander or a sieve. after 30 minutes you will get nice soft chenna, to make rasgollas,
out of this chenna, first keep a vessel with sugar and water to boil well,
meanwhile knead the chenna nicely without using too much pressure , rubbing along the surface ,
then gather and make a smooth dough ..or ball of paneer. next gently make soft balls, and make them crack free, dont make tight balls . after you finish making the balls,
Keep a cloth over it so that it diesnt dry out, when the sugar water has come to a roll boil, drop the prepared chenna balls into the mixture, keep the flame on high all the time .
i did not cover the vessel, and allowed to cook openly, and occasional stirring of balls. after 8-10 minutes, you will seee the balls have doubled in size, take out one and check if cooked. switch off gas, after couple of minutes,
take out gently and drop in a prepared cool ythick sugar syrup for further sweetening and for serving , this step can be avoided also .
garnish if you like with saffron strands . serve chilled or warm
Watch my youtube video on making of milk powder rasgollas
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