Spongy Rasgulla

Spongy Rasgulla

Recipe by Mudita BhageriaCourse: dessertCuisine: IndianDifficulty: Easy
Servings

10

servings
Prep time

40

minutes
Cooking time

40

minutes

Rasgulla is one of the famous and delicious Indian sweets made from milk and sugar. Best variety of rasgullas come from West Bengal and they are very light, soft and spongy. Rasgulla is fairly easy to make but one needs to be aware of small tricks to make it spongy and turn it into a perfect dessert. One of the tricks is to make sure you smooth chenna (Indian cottage cheese) by kneading it but don’t over-knead it. 

Ingredients

  • Whole milk 4 cups, if possible use cow milk (A2 milk)

  • Lemon juice 3 tbsp

  • 1 – 1/2 or 2 cups sugar (as per taste)

  • Rose essence ½ tsp

  • Cardamom powder ½ tsp

  • Saffron – for garnish

Directions

  • Boil the milk on medium heat. Let it cool a bit (3-4 minutes).
  • While milk is cooling, mix equal parts of lemon and water and keep aside.
  • Add 2 tbsp lemon juice mix to milk and stir. Start low heat and and add 2 more tbsp lemon juice mix and stir the milk. If milk does not separate, add remaining lemon mix and stir. Keep doing until the milk separates and you see chenna.
  • Take a muslin cloth and strain off the water from separated milk and wash the chenna under running water so that the tartness from lemon juice is gone.
  • Squeeze the water from the chenna. Make a knot on muslin cloth (with chenna inside) and hang for about 20 minutes to drain out the excess water.
  • Remove the chenna from muslin cloth and spread on the cutting board. Knead the chenna with your wrist for about 8 to 10 minutes till it becomes smooth.
  • Make round balls (About ¾ inch diameter) with chenna. Make sure there are no cracks. Keep aside.
  • Add 4 cups of water and sugar to a pressure cooker (or fry pan). Heat on medium flame till it starts boiling.
  • Lower the heat and gently add chenna balls in the boiling sugar syrup. Add rose essence and cardamom powder in the sugar syrup.
  • Close the lid and high heat for about 10 minutes and then simmer for about 5 to 10 minutes. Stir often.
  • Check in between and chenna balls should become almost double in size.
  • Close the heat and Rasgulla is ready.
  • Garnish with saffron
  • Keep it in the refrigerator for about 7 hours or overnight.  serve cold (Some people enjoy it warm also)
  • Enjoy!

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