Diwali Greetings to all of you……This Diwali I made this sweet dish, Rasmalai, with milk powder and thought of sharing this recipe with all of you.
Rasmalai, a sweet milk dessert, is popular all over India. This dish consists of soft and light milk balls in milk syrup and flavoured with cardamom and pistachios. It is usually made with Paneer (fresh cheese) and shaped into flattened balls and cooked in thickened milk.
Here’s an easy and quick Rasmalai recipe, made with milk powder. I always use Nido milk powder for this recipe. Everyone in my family loves this sweet dish.
Now, let’s begin…..
Ingredients
For the syrup
- 1 litre or 4 cups of Milk
- 1/2 cup Sugar
- 1 pinch Cardamom powder
- 1/4 tsp. Kewra water
- 2 tbsp. Pistachios, finely sliced
For the Malai balls
- 1 cup Milk powder ( Nestle Nido or any full fat powdered milk )
- A tsp. of Baking powder
- 2-3 pods of Cardamom, powdered
- 1 tbsp. of Ghee, melted
- One Egg, beaten
Method
- Boil the milk with sugar and cardamom powder in a pan over medium heat.
- Meanwhile, mix the milk powder, baking powder, cardamom powder and oil in a bowl. Mix gently with hands.
- Gradually add the beaten egg, a little at a time and mix till it forms a ball shape. ( Just add enough egg so that the mixture comes together ).
- Knead lightly to make a smooth dough. Don’t knead too much.
- Make equal sized, small, oval or round shape balls and flatten them slightly.
- Place the balls, one by one into the milk.
- Cover the pan and cook on medium-high heat until the milk comes to a boil and the balls start to increase in size.
- Reduce the heat to low and simmer for few minutes until the balls are soft and light.
- Turn off the heat and add the kewra water.
- Transfer to a serving dish, sprinkle pistachios.
- Let it cool slightly at room temperature, then refrigerate until serving.
