Rasagulla


Ingredients

½ Litre Milk.
2-3 tbs Lemon Juice
1 Cup Sugar
2 cups Water

Prepration  
                                       
Take a heavy bottomed Vessel add milk and bring it to boil, slowly add lemon juice and the milk starts to curdle and the way will separate.

Take a muslin cloth and pour the curdled milk filtering the way completely

Wash it well in running cold water to remove the lemon smell.

Squeeze the excess water and hang it aside for 30 mins without disturbing it.

After 30 mins the paneer would be crumbly in texture.

Now kneed the paneer till  everything comes together to a smooth dough. 

Make small balls of the dough and keep it aside.

Now place a pressure cooker on the stove add sugar, water  and allow the sugar to dissolve. Bring it to boil.

Slowly add the paneer balls to the boiling sugar syrup, place the lid and cook up to 1 whistle and turn off the heat.

Once the pressure is off remove the lid, the balls will be double in size and becomes light and springy to touch.

If you feel the paneer balls are not cooked place the lid and cook it for another 5 mins.



Now the rasagulla is ready, bring it to room temperature, refrigerate and serve chilled.




Milk Payasa / Pal Payasa



Ingredients

1 Litre Milk.
1 Cup  Rice.
1 1\2 Cup Sugar.
1\4 tsp Cardamom Powder.
10-15 Cashew Nuts.
10-15 Raisins.

Preparation

 Boil the milk in a medium flame

Wash the rice, add it to the boiling milk, cook under medium flame till rice is done.(Stir occasionally)

Add sugar, Cardamom powder, Cashew nuts, Raisins and cook for 15-20 minutes with frequent stiring.

Remove from Payasa from the stove, now the pyasa is ready to serve.

Besan Laddoo / Besan Unde


 Ingredients

2 Cups Gram Flour (Kadale hittu)
1.5 Cups Icing Sugar (Powdered Sugar)
1 cup Ghee
10-15 Cashew Nuts (Roasted in Ghee)
10-15 Raisins (Roasted in Ghee)
1tsp  Cardamom Powder.

Method

In  a Khadhai add ghee and bring it to boil and then Reduce the flame.
Add gram flour and mix well till nice aroma comes and color starts changing.
Once gram flour is done switch off the flame, than add Sugar, Cardamom Powder, Roasted Cashew Nuts, Raisins and mix well.
Make laddoos of desired size.
If  it breaks and difficult to make laddoos add a little more ghee to bind it together.