Spongy Home made Rasgulla|Rasgulla Recipe

Rasgulla-This is my most favourite sweet. Wondering how come a person who has avoided most whites in the pantry love Rasgulla!! Yeah-I used to just gobble up this Bengali sweet in no time. But it is a yearly twice kind of event. No harm right? Though I avoid whites in my pantry I don’t mind using once in a while or having them at a party or offering my kid during an outing. I tried making rasgullas at home some two years back and these recipe images have been lying on my hard disk since then. Accidentally a friend of mine wanted to know the recipe of spongy rasgulla, so posting it now. The images are of poor quality since they were clicked long back(before learning the techniques I use today).

 

Rasgulla Recipe :

Ingredients:

Makes 15-20 mini rasgullas

• Milk-1/2 litre
• Curd-1/4 cup
• Sugar-3/4 cup
• Water-1.5 cups
• Saffron- Few
• cardamom Powder-A pinch

 

Procedure:

1.Measure and keep all ingredients ready.

2.In a thick sauce pan, allow milk to boil.

3.When it begins to boil add curd and stir well.

4.The milk will begin to curdle, continue to stir in medium flame until the whey water separates.

5.In the meantime keep a soft cloth ready to filter the milk.

6. Pour in the cloth and filter out the whey water.

7.Tie up the solid part to ensure draining of water completely.This might take half an hour max.

8.Take the milk solid from the cloth and add to a mixing bowl.

9.Knead it smoothly for 20 minutes and then roll into small balls.

10.In a pressure cooker add water and dissolve sugar at medium flame.I added saffron, cardamom powder too at this stage.

11.When the sugar is completely dissolved and begins to boil , add the balls one after another carefully.

12.Pressure cook for one whistle in medium flame and wait for the pressure to get released.

13.The balls should have doubled in size by now and syrup would be in right consistency.If not cook for 5 more minutes with the lid closed(Do not add whistle).

14.Just relish the spongy rasgulla dunked in saffron syrup.

 

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My Observations:

Choose a wide base pressure cooker because these double up in size after getting pressure cooked.

If you wish to open cook instead of pressure cooking,cook in low flame for five minutes after adding the balls and then cook in medium flame for 7-10 minutes in medium flame. The balls would move from edges to middle as they get cooked.

Kneading is the most important step to get smooth , spongy balls.

Don’troll the balls too tight .

Mine is not white coloured as the saffron color got added up.

I didn’t curdle the milk with lime juice because I somehow have always felt the sour tinge stuck to some deep corner of rasgulla.

If you are using lime juice use 2 tbsp and ensure to wash the curdled in plain water completely before step 7.

This stays well for 3 days at room temperature and 5 days if refrigerated.

Store in a sterilized glass/steel jar and use a dry spoon to serve.

This can be an occasional treat for kids above 1 year.

Please have a word with your doctor before introducing any new food to babies.

Ensure to have tried all the ingredients individually before trying this for babies.

Please consider all family history of allergies before trying any new food.

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