Badaami RasMalai
Almond flavored sweet
Recipe by Chitra Ahluwalia Pal of New York, US
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A very easy homemade Indian Dessert with a fancy name. If you make with zero calorie sugar and Skimmed Milk then it will be low calorie dessert :)
Ingredients
vegetarian
4 servings
- One liter Milk (low fat/Skim Milk)
- Cardamom/Eliachi seeds powder
- 1 ½ cup Sugar (Zero Calorie)
- A few saffron strands (10) soaked in 1 cup of water.
- ½ cup almonds grated
- 2 tsp. condensed milk (low fat)
- One big whole lemon or 4 tsp. of fresh lemon liquid
For Garnishing
- ¼ cup sliced Almonds/badaam
- few drops of Kewra liquid
Directions
- Pour the milk in a pan and keep it in medium low.
- Add sugar, cardamom powder, grated almonds mixture.
- When milk is ready to boil add saffron water along with saffron strands.
- Boil the milk and separate it in two portions.
- Separate 1/4 cup milk from the pan and heat separately in low flame.
- Add condensed milk till the milk thickens.
- Serve in Individual Bowls with thickened milk and garnish with few saffron strands and chopped almonds.
- Cool down the milk and refrigerate it.
- To the rest of the milk (3/4 portion), add lemon. After milk is all curdled up and is all separated from water, sieve the cheese and take out in an oven tray.
- Place the cheese in the oven for 15 minutes 350 degrees or less depends on oven to oven (cheese should not change brown color).
- Take out the cheese and rest it for 10 mins till it cools down, then cut the cheese in circles with help of cookie cutter or any round shape cutter.
- Put 1-2 drops of Kewra liquid on each and every cheese balls and refrigerate them for an hour.