Rasamalai

Rasamalai
A very tasty dessert. It is little time consuming, but worth every single effort you put.

Ingredients :
 Milk for paneer - 2 cups
 Milk for rabadi - 2 cups ( I prefer half and half milk )
Sugar  -  1 cup or to taste.
Sliced almonds and pistachios - 3 Tbsp
Vinegar - 1 Tbsp
Kesar - few
Ice cubes - 10 cubes

Method :
1. For rabadi, add half and half milk and kesar and let it boil.
    Once it is boiling, simmer the flame and let it thicken.
     Add sugar to taste
2. For paneer,
-  mix vinegar in a glass of water.
- have ice cubes, strainer, muslin cloth handy.
- boil milk in a pot. When it starts boiling pour vinegar - water mixture and stir as you pour.
- when you see the milk curdling, spot the flame and put the ice cubes.
- this is done because we don't want the paneer to be hard.
- put muslin cloth in strainer and clip it.
- pour the curdled milk and run cool water in it so that the paneer is cooled and the vinegar is washed off.
- tie the muslin cloth and hang it for few hours so that all the water is gone.
3. Making the flat disk - rasagullas
- knead the paneer into soft dough.
- take a small ball and rotate it into ball. Press it between your palm to make disk shaped as shown in the picture.
- add 1 cup of sugar to 6 cups of water and let it boil. Put these disks in it and close the lid and cook it for 10 minutes. This will increase in size when it is boiling, so give enough room for it.
- take some syrup in a bowl and gently take these disks and put it the bowl.
- let it cool. Press it in between the fingers to remove the sugar syrup and put it in rabadi.

4. Garnish it with nuts.

It's such a yummy sweet to have.

Enjoy the joy of cooking.