{"id":2758,"slug":"rasmalai-indian-cheese-and-milk-dessert","title":"Rasmalai (Indian Cheese and Milk Dessert)","description":"Rasmalai is a very popular Indian milk-based dessert recipe.","ingredients_raw":["250 g paneer or chenna (curdled milk)","2 ½ tbsp refined flour (maida)","4 cups white granulated sugar","10 cups milk","¼ tsp cardamom powder","4 almonds","4 pistachios"],"ingredients_norm":["paneer or chenna","refined flour","white granulated sugar","milk","cardamom powder","almond","pistachio"],"steps":["Crumble paneer and knead it.","Add the 2 tbsp of maida and knead again with the palm to make a smooth dough.","Divide into sixteen equal portions, roll into balls, and press slightly to flatten them.","Thinly slice almonds and pistachios. Dissolve 2 cups sugar in 2 cups of water, then bring to a boil.","Slowly lower the paneer balls in the boiling syrup and cook on high heat for ten minutes. Sprinkle a little water and ½ tbsp of maida and bring to a boil again. Cook for few minutes.","Meanwhile boil milk in a thick-bottomed pan, lower heat, and continue to boil until it is reduced to a thick consistency (⅓ of its original volume).","Add the rest of the sugar and the cardamom powder, and keep boiling until the sugar is dissolved. Remove from heat, cool, and refrigerate for 1 hour.","Add sliced almonds, pistachios, and orange powder, and mix again.","Squeeze the chenna balls and put them into the chilled sweetened milk. Refrigerate it for another half an hour. Serve chilled."],"categories":["Indian recipes","Refrigerated recipes","Dessert recipes","Recipes using almond","Recipes using granulated sugar","Recipes using cardamom","Recipes using paneer","Recipes using all-purpose flour","Recipes using milk"],"prep_time_minutes":null,"cook_time_minutes":null,"total_time_minutes":60,"servings":"4","yield_text":null,"difficulty":"hard","source_name":"wikibooks","source_url":"https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cookbook:Rasmalai_(Indian_Cheese_and_Milk_Dessert)","source_ref":"4525530","authors_url":"https://en.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?title=Cookbook:Rasmalai_(Indian_Cheese_and_Milk_Dessert)&action=history","license":"CC BY-SA 4.0","license_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/","extraction_confidence":null,"content_hash":"ff8a4b4a138a4eeaeaeed57a5fa720c8da2f70fd12636d08e5cf57771997f43d","created_at":"2026-08-02T14:43:17Z","updated_at":"2026-08-02T14:43:17Z","notice":null,"url":"https://recipecontextprotocol.com/recipes/rasmalai-indian-cheese-and-milk-dessert"}