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