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Rasagulla

Rasagulla is a typical Bengali sweet, made out of milk protein or the cottage cheese. Whole full fat milk is boiled at the right consistency and then vinegar or lemon juice is added. The boiled milk then curdles out and then the cottage cheese gets filtered out using a muslin cloth. Meanwhile, sugar syrup is prepared by adding 1 proportion of sugar with 1.2 proportions of water and once it boils down, add rose essence and cardamom powder. While the sugar syrup is simmering, knead the cottage cheese or make use of a mixer for kneading the cottage cheese. Make tiny cheese balls out of it. Finally, drop the cheese balls into simmering sugar syrup and cook for about 10 minutes on low flame. Tada! mouth watering rasagullas are ready...slurp :) Ingredients: 1.5 litres of whole milk 1 tbsp lemon juice or vinegar 2 cups of sugar 2.5 cups of water 1/2 tsp cardamom powder or 1 green cardamom few saffron strands or rose essence 1/4 cup of powdered sugar or granulated sugar 1 tbs...