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Rasmalai recipe – Learn how to make easy rasmalai that is soft and mouth melting. Rasmalai is a Bengali delicacy that is very popular among the Indian Sweet Lovers. Ras malai – Ras literally translates to “juice” and malai to “cream”. To make rasmalai, flattened balls of Chenna are cooked in sugar syrup first. Then later dunked in sweetened thickened milk that is of cream consistency. These flattened balls or discs are juicy after soaking up the creamy thick milk. They are garnished with nuts, chilled and enjoyed.
rasmalai recipe
Rasmalai are a melt in the mouth with juicy cream in every bite. They are so delicious that anyone who tastes these get mesmerized and would long for more.

You can also check this Collection of 100 diwali recipes for the festive season.

Rasmalai can be made in 2 ways. I am sharing both the methods.

1. Original way making it from scratch – This involves making chenna or paneer. Next shaping to discs. Later boiling them in sugar syrup. Lastly condensing the milk to a creamy texture called rabri. Towards the end dunking them in the rabri.

2. Quick easy rasmalai – use the store bought rasgulla like the Halidram’s tin and a milkmaid. Then just squeeze out the syrup from rasgulla and dunk them in the simmered diluted milkmaid.

To make rasmalai in 10 minutes using readymade rasgulla scroll down to method 2.

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Easy rasmalai recipe

Rasmalai recipe | How to make easy rasmalai recipe | Soft rasmalai recipe

Rasmalai is a popular Bengali sweet delicacy made with Indian cottage cheese or chenna (paneer) discs. These discs are cooked in sugar syrup first to make them fluffy. Later served with chilled thickened milk. Rasmalai is garnished with chopped nuts. This recipe will give you the best soft and mouth melting rasmalai.

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Course Dessert
Cuisine Bengali
Keyword authentic, diwali, festival
Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 2 hours
Total Time 2 hours 10 minutes
Servings 12 discs
Calories 213 kcal
Author Swasthi

Ingredients (240 ml cup used)

Ingredients for rasmalai

  • 1¼ liter milk or 5 cups full fat milk for chenna
  • 2 to 3 tsp lemon juice or vinegar (mix with 2 to 3 tbsp water) or 4 to 6 tbsp curd
  • 1 liter ice water or ice cubes

For sugar syrup

  • 1 cup sugar
  • ¼ tsp cardamom powder or elaichi powder

To make rabri

  • ¾ liter milk (3 cups full fat)
  • ½ cup sugar for rabri
  • pinch saffron or kesar (optional)
  • 2 tbsp pista or almonds sliced

How to make the recipe

Make thickened milk for rasmalai

  1. Pour 3 cups milk to a heavy bottom pot and boil. 

  2. Add saffron and sugar when the milk comes to a boil. 
  3. Reduce the flame to medium. Stir every 2 to 3 minutes to prevent the milk from scorching at the bottom.  

  4. When a layer of cream forms, just move it aside. 
  5. Boil until the milk thickens and reduces to half the quantity. Set this aside to cool. 

  6. When the milk cools down chill it in the fridge.

Make chenna for rasmalai

  1. Boil 5 cups milk in a pot.  Pour lemon juice and stir until curdled. If it doesn't then add some more and stir.

  2. Pour ice water or add ice cubes to the pot and set aside for 2 mins. 

  3. Drain to a muslin cloth lined over a colander.

  4. Squeeze off excess whey and make a knot.

  5. Next hang it for about 45 minutes to 1 hour for the excess whey to drain off.

  6. Transfer the chenna to a plate. At this stage chenna should not have any excess whey in it. Knead well for about 3 to 5 minutes until smooth. Chenna should not be grainy but must be smooth.

  7. Make 12 equal balls and flatten them to make discs. If the discs are slightly cracked on the sides, roll the sides gently. Set these aside.

Sugar syrup for rasmalai

  1. Bring 3 cups of water to a boil with 1 cup sugar. Stir until the sugar dissolves completely. Then add cardamom powder.

  2. Add the discs to boiling syrup gently. Cook covered for about 7 to 8 minutes on a moderately high flame.

How to make rasmalai - Assembling Rasmalai

  1. Take off the discs to a plate and cool them. Squeeze them gently in between your palms to remove sugar syrup.

  2. Add these to the chilled thickened milk or rabri. If you wish you can also simmer for 1 to 2 minutes in the rabri. Allow to rest for few hours if desired.

  3. Garnish rasmalai with chopped nuts. Chill and serve it.

Nutrition Facts
Rasmalai recipe | How to make easy rasmalai recipe | Soft rasmalai recipe
Amount Per Serving
Calories 213 Calories from Fat 54
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 6g 9%
Saturated Fat 3g 15%
Cholesterol 16mg 5%
Sodium 72mg 3%
Potassium 234mg 7%
Total Carbohydrates 33g 11%
Sugars 33g
Protein 5g 10%
Vitamin A 5.4%
Vitamin C 0.4%
Calcium 19%
Iron 0.8%
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.

rasmalai recipe
Method 1

Preparation for rasmalai recipe

1. Making rabri. Pour 3 cups milk to a heavy bottom pot. Bring it to a boil on a medium flame. Add saffron/ kesar and keep stirring every few minutes to prevent burning.
making rabri with milk for rasmalai recipe
2. Next pour sugar. I used organic sugar. You can use white sugar as well.
adding sugar for rabri in rasmalai recipe
3. Adjust the flame as desired to suit your convenience. Do not use high flame milk may overflow the pot. Keep stirring every 2 to 3 minutes, moving aside the malai/cream that comes on top. Turn off when it gets condensed to half the quantity. Chill this in the fridge.
saffron flavored condensed milk for rasmalai recipe

Make chenna for rasmalai

4. While the rabri is getting done, bring 5 cups milk to a boil in another pot for making chenna/paneer. When the milk is boiling, then add curd or lemon juice or vinegar.
boiling milk for chenna in rasmalai recipe
5. Keep stirring until the milk curdles completely. If needed add more lemon juice or vinegar. Switch off the stove.
curdling milk
6. When you see it has curdled completely, immediately add ice cubes or ice cold water. This is very important to keep the chenna soft.
addition of ice cubes


7. Drain it up in a thin clean muslin cloth.
draining chenna in cloth
8. Wrap up the paneer in the cloth bringing together all the edges. Put the cloth under running water, making sure the paneer is wrapped well in the cloth. Rinse it well under the running water to remove the smell of lemon or vinegar. Tie up the paneer in the cloth like shown in the picture. Squeeze off the excess water. Hang it up on a hook for 45 minutes to 1 hour for the whey to completely drain.
hanging paneer for draining in rasmalai recipe
9. At this step you must have chenna that is just moist with no dripping water and not sticky. Knead it well for about 3 to 5 minutes. You must not knead to the extent that chenna begins to release grease or fats.
kneading paneer for rasmalai recipe

How to make rasmalai

10. Divide it to 12 equal portions. Make balls and flatten them gently. You can also make rasgulla or chum chum. If you find the edges cracked up, gently smoothen them. Cover and set them aside.
making balls discs for rasmalai recipe


11. Bring 3 cups water to a boil with 1 cup sugar.
boiling sugar syrup
12. When the syrup begins to boil, add cardamom powder.
addition of elaichi
13. Next when the syrup begins to boil rapidly, add flattened discs of chenna. Cover immediately and cook on a moderately high flame for exactly 8 minutes.
boiling discs in sugar syrup for rasmalai recipe

14. The discs would have doubled in size.
cooked balls in syrup for rasmalai recipe
15. Take out one by one and cool. Gently squeeze them in between your palms to remove the absorbed sugar syrup. You can also do it with a spatula and spoon.

16. Add them to the rabri.

17. Add chopped pistachios, almonds and cashews. You can also simmer for just one to 2 minutes on a low flame for the milk to be absorbed by the discs. Do not overcook at this stage, they may break. Serve rasmalai chilled.

Method 2

Easy rasmalai in 10 minutes

Using ready made rasgulla and milkmaid.
bengali rasmalai

Ingredients
12 rasgullas
1 tin milk maid condensed milk (392 grams)
2 cups milk
⅛ Tsp. Green cardamom powder / elaichi
Few saffron strands
Chopped Pistachios and almonds for garnish

Instructions to make quick rasmalai
1. You can use any ready made rasgulla. Squeeze the syrup out of the balls. Do not press them too hard, they will break. Make sure that the syrup is extracted from the balls else they will not absorb the milk. Set these aside.
easy rasmalai recipe using condensed milk
2. Pour milk and condensed milk in a pan and bring it to a boil.
making easy rasmalai recipe with condensed milk
3. Add saffron and cardamom powder. Simmer it for around 5 to 6 mins so that the milk blends well with milkmaid. Alternately, You can melt the saffron in little hot milk and add too.

4. Reduce the flame to medium. Add the rasgulla to the condensed milk.

5. Cover with a lid and simmer for a min or two. Overcooking can break them.
rasgulla for easy rasmalai recipe
6. Easy rasmalai using rasgulla is ready in less than 10 minutes.
Garnish with nuts. You could add the chopped nuts at step 4 too.
Note: It will be sufficient even if you use ¾ th can of condensed milk (392 gms) and 1.5 cups of milk. We have a sweet tooth, so I use up the entire can and we enjoy the creamy milk too. So adjust to suit your need.

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  1. Shayal says

    March 3, 2018 at 5:24 am

    Nice recipe can I make it without the use of saffron

    Reply
    • swasthi says

      March 4, 2018 at 3:16 am

      Yes Shayal
      You can make it without saffron

      Reply
  2. Deepika says

    December 5, 2017 at 2:58 pm

    I tried out this recipe..It turned out to be too delicious…We loved it.
    Thank you for sharing this recipe.

    Reply
    • swasthi says

      December 5, 2017 at 3:14 pm

      Welcome Deepika

      Reply
  3. Alia says

    November 24, 2017 at 10:46 pm

    HI
    I made them , everything was fine but my chenna balls got broken as soon i put them in the syrup, n all of them melted in the syrup. I dnt know what i did wrong . Please help me out
    Thanks

    Reply
    • swasthi says

      November 25, 2017 at 2:23 am

      Hi Alia
      Not sure why they broke. Its mostly the quality of milk, kneading the chenna and the temperature of the syrup affect the balls. They break if the syrup is boiling at a very high temperature, the flame has to be moderately high and not very high. Which milk did you use?

      Reply
  4. Bhakti says

    October 27, 2017 at 9:07 am

    Very good recipe….. we just loved it… Thank you so much

    Reply
  5. Zorian says

    September 24, 2017 at 10:30 am

    looking damn tasty, let’s give it a try!!

    Reply
  6. afreen says

    June 12, 2017 at 1:45 pm

    Hi swasthi.. Tried this recipe it turned out well.. But der was a mild taste of lemon even though I washed the chenna.. Plz suggest

    Reply
    • swasthi says

      June 18, 2017 at 3:17 pm

      Hi Afreen
      Probably you can try diluting the lemon juice and use. You can also try using curd instead of lemon juice

      Reply
  7. Femida leeya says

    May 3, 2017 at 10:29 am

    Hi. Thanks for posting recipe. I tried it n when put discs in syrup they doubled in size and were soft but when I put them in reduced milk they went a bit hard. How to avoid that.

    Reply
    • swasthi says

      May 5, 2017 at 11:28 am

      Welcome Femida
      Sorry for the late reply. Did you put hot discs in the hot rabri/ reduced milk. They can turn hard that way, otherwise no idea why they would have turned hard.
      Usually if they are overcooked then they turn hard.

      Reply
  8. shaik says

    February 28, 2017 at 6:24 pm

    Thank you

    Reply
    • swasthi says

      March 1, 2017 at 1:12 am

      Welcome

      Reply
  9. Harika says

    February 19, 2017 at 8:24 pm

    Hi Swathi
    How much does you cheena weight after hung. And what is the size of the disc you are making.
    I am making cheena from scratch but using the shortcut rabri.

    Thanks

    Reply
    • swasthi says

      February 20, 2017 at 5:55 am

      Hi Harika
      The weight of chenna depends on the quality & kind of milk – homogenised & pasturised will yield less chenna.
      I have not weighted chenna for this recipe.
      You can make whatever size you like. I divided to 12 portions

      Reply
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