Ras Malai From Karachi
By: miansari66
Published: Wednesday, June 8, 2011 - 3:54am

Ingredients




Ingredients for Malai (Milk doughnut):
2 litres Milk full cream 
1/2 teaspoon Baking powder
2 teaspoons Lemon juice or tatri 1- 2 pinch
2 teaspoons Corn starch
2 kilograms Sugar
Ingredients for Ras (Sweetened and flavoured Milk)
1 litre Milk 
Pistachio chopped 20
Almonds slices and chopped 20
1/8 teaspoon Cardamom seeds
1 cup Sugar
Rose essences few drops

Preparation

1 Boil milk in a pan, after few boils add lemon juice 1 teaspoon at once and stirr, the milk will start coagulating if does not start add more lemon juice. 2 Instead of using lemon juice the tatri (any food acid like Citric acid, Tartaric acid or Malic acid is a better choice if available, it will not impart flavour to milk) 3 When milk fully coagulated add one glass cold water and sieve through muslin cloth (malmal cloth). 4 You will get 200-250 gram of Shaninna (cottage cheese). 5 Now add  baking powder and corn starch to it and dough well to a smoonth texture. Then made small balls or patty shaped dumbles from it and keep aside. 6 In a separeate pan take  one glass water add sugar  and cook on medium flame to make sugar syrup (chashni or sheera) when boiling started add prepared balls to it and cook till balls doubles in size. 7 Remove from sugar syrup in a pan fill 3/4th  with tap water. After 5 minutes squeeze carefully to remove excess water. 8 Add these to sweetened and flavoured  milk with pistachio, almonds , cardamom seeds and few drops of rose essences. 9 Delicious Ras malai is ready, cool in refrigerator and serve. 10 Preparation of Sweetened and Falvoured Milk 11 Heat Milk then add Pistachio, almond, sugar, cardamom seeds and rose essence, then cool.

About


Ras Malai is a delicious sweetmeat liked by all ages. Purely milk based sweetmeat