Time
0 min
Serving
12 persons
Calories
216
Ras Malai is cheese dumplings in cream sauce. This is a popular Indian dessert and takes a long time to prepare the traditional way. I came up with some shortcuts and ended up with this recipe which tastes exactly the same as traditional Ras Malai.
Ingredients
- whole-milk ricotta cheese: 1 container (15 ounce container)
- white sugar: 0.25 cup
- half and half: 3 cups
- white sugar: 1 cup
- ground cardamom: 0.25 tsp
- rose water: 0.5 tsp (optional)
- pinch saffron: 1 piece
- blanched almonds: 1 Tbsp (chopped)
- pistachio nuts: 2 tsp (chopped)
Metric Conversion
Stages of cooking
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Preheat an oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
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Blend the ricotta cheese and 1/4 cup sugar together in a bowl with a hand mixer; divide the mixture between 12 muffin cups.
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Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean, 35 to 40 minutes. Cool in the pans for 10 minutes before removing to cool completely on a wire rack. Arrange the cheese balls onto a dessert platter.
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While the cheese bakes, pour the half and half into a saucepan and bring to a simmer over low heat; simmer 10 minutes. Stir 1 cup sugar, the cardamom, rose water, and saffron into the half and half and simmer another 2 minutes. Remove from heat and allow to cool completely. Drizzle the cooled mixture over the cheese balls. Sprinkle the almonds and pistachios over the cheese balls to serve.
