Wednesday, January 5, 2011

Rosogulla [रसगुल्ला]

♠ Rosogulla [रसगुल्ला] ▬►





Soft, spongy balls of cottage cheese soaked in chilled sugar syrup.... Nicely made Rasgulla melts in your mouth and leaves you wanting more...always! The Bengalis (from eastern India) sure know their sweet making.

♠ Ingredients ▬►


  •  Cottage Cheese 1 kg
  •  Sugar 1 liter
  •  Water 1.5 liter
  •  Ghee 4 tbsp
  •  Semolina 2 tsp
  •  Standard flour 2 tsp
  •  Rose Water few drops
  •  Cardamom powder 1/2 tsp


♠ Method ▬►

♠ Sugar Syrup ▬►
In a pan add the water and the sugar and boil them together for 20 to 30 minutes and let them thicken.

♠ Rosogulla Balls ▬►

  •  In a big bowl add the cottage cheese, ghee, semolina, cardamom powder, and standard flour.
  •  Add all the mixteures together until it forms a dough.
  •  Knead the dough evenly until and unless your palms become oily.
  •  Now make small balls of 1 1/2 inch diameter.
  •  Add these balls in the boiling sugar syrup and let them get cooked in the boiling sugar syrup for 25 minutes.
  •  This will make them spongy.
  •  Remove the pan from heat and after 10 minutes add the rose water essence.

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