Rasmalai......My 100 th Post :-)

Ingredients:

• 1 ltr milk to make Rabdi
• 1 ltr milk to make paneer
• few blanched Almonds, thinly sliced
• 1 cup sugar
• 1/2 cup sugar for rabdi
• 6 cup water
• A large pinch of Cardamom powder
• 8-10 Ice cubes
• 1 tbsp Vinegar/lime juice (to curdle milk)

Method:

• Boil 1 ltr milk & add vinegar to the milk.When the milk curdles,remove from heat & immediately add the ice to it, to stop it from further curdling.
• Sieve this through a muslin cloth & hang it for half an hour, do not press.
• Knead this paneer well & make small balls & press them a little, like peda.
• Boil 6 cups of water with 1 cup sugar mixed to it on a high flame.
• When water is boiling vigorusly, add the paneer peda to it , cover & boil for 5 mts.
• The size of the peda will increase.Remove & put them in warm water.
• Bring 1 ltr milk to a boil in a non stick pan.
• Reduce the flame and keep stirring till the milk is reduced to half.
• Add sugar and simmer for some more time till milk thickens to rabdi.
• Add cardamom powder.Now squeeze the paneer peda lightly & add them to the rabdi.
• Garnish with almonds & leave it for 1 hr so that the paneer will soak in the rabdi.
• Serve cold.