{"id":4039,"date":"2013-04-26T14:18:44","date_gmt":"2013-04-26T08:48:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/?p=4039"},"modified":"2015-06-01T16:54:38","modified_gmt":"2015-06-01T11:24:38","slug":"everyone-loves-rasmalai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/food\/everyone-loves-rasmalai","title":{"rendered":"Everyone Loves Rasmalai"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4042\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4042\" style=\"width: 665px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/food\/everyone-loves-rasmalai\/attachment\/rasmalai\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4042\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-my-custom-thumb wp-image-4042\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/ci-moi-images\/my-india\/rasmalai-665x445.jpg\" alt=\"Rasmalai\" width=\"665\" height=\"445\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4042\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Everyone Loves Rasmalai<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>My early memories of <em>rasmalai<\/em> are of my mother in our kitchen challenging the notion that\u00a0 <em>rasmalai<\/em> is not<em> rasgullas<\/em> added to<em> malai<\/em>.\u00a0 In her opinion, pressing<em> rasgullas<\/em> and draining water out doesn&#8217;t lead to exactly the kind of <em>chenna<\/em> balls you would like in your\u00a0 <em>rasmalai<\/em>.\u00a0 Somehow, she was always of the view that the excess sugar which goes inside the r<em>asgullas<\/em> makes them unsuitable when mixed with <em>malai<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>A lot of people would argue that this is the way to make quick <em>rasmalai<\/em> at home. My take is that<em> rasgullas<\/em> are anyway a great dish, and if in a hurry, should be served by themselves.\u00a0 <em>Rasmalai<\/em> tastes very well when the <em>chenna<\/em> is tweaked with saffron at the stage of making the base for<em> rasmalai.<\/em>\u00a0 In this case, the <em>rasmalai<\/em> retains the softness and airy feel and is still dominated by the saffron&#8217;s flavor and color.\u00a0 When you do this, you don&#8217;t get a <em>rasmalai <\/em>where the<em> ras<\/em> ( liquid or juice) has a saffron base but the <em>chenna<\/em> balls are white from inside.<\/p>\n<p><em> Rasmalai<\/em> tastes awesome when not too many ingredients are added to it.\u00a0 Keep the ingredients limited to good quality<em> cheena<\/em>, <em>malai<\/em> (the thin variety), green cardamom powder, chopped pistachio slices, sugar powder and a hint of cinnamon.<\/p>\n<p>The best way to serve <em>rasmalai<\/em> is to put it in the freezer for 1\/2 an hour to ensure that the <em>cheena<\/em> balls as well as the juice are chilled.\u00a0 The problem with this dish is that it can taste horrible if not served cold and is totally spoiled if\u00a0 frozen.\u00a0 Once frozen, any attempt to defrost it and get it back to its normal, juicy self is a bad idea.<\/p>\n<p>Pick up any recipe on the net and keep the above points in mind.\u00a0 Enjoy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My early memories of rasmalai are of my mother in our kitchen challenging the notion that\u00a0 rasmalai is not rasgullas added to malai.\u00a0 In her opinion, pressing rasgullas and draining water out doesn&#8217;t lead to exactly the kind of chenna balls you would like in your\u00a0 rasmalai.\u00a0 Somehow, she was always of the view that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":4042,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3512,3513,62,3482,3487,3529],"tags":[943,942],"class_list":{"0":"post-4039","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-desserts-and-sweets","8":"category-festival-and-celebration-cuisines","9":"category-food","10":"category-vegetarian","11":"category-north-indian","12":"category-kids-special","13":"tag-ingredients-used-for-rasmalai","14":"tag-rasmalai"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4039"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45912,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4039\/revisions\/45912"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}