Sponge Rasgulla

Ingredients :

Full Cream Milk / Cow Milk - 1 ltr

Sugar - 1 cup

Green Cardamom - 4

Lemon - 2

Water - 6 cups

Procedure:

1. Put milk in a pan and bring it to boil.

2. Squeeze out lemon in a small bowl and add 2 Tbsn water to it.

3. Start adding lemon and water mixture slowly to the milk. Keep stirring the milk slowly.

4. Milk will start coagulating. Once the milk solids get separated strain it using a big seive and let it stand in seive for some time.

5. In the meantime, take another pan add sugar and water. Bring it to boil for 5 mins. Sugar syrup will start forming.

6. Take cardamom in mortar & pestle and crush them. Remove the skin and add the crushings to the sugar syrup.

7. Take the milk solids in a plate and press it with your palm. Basically we need to kneed it for 2-3 minutes.

8. Make small balls(rasgulla) of this kneeded milk solid. Around 8- 10 balls can be made.

9. Put these rasgullas slowly in the sugar syrup and let them boil for 8 mins on medium flame with covered lid.

10. Open the lid and let them boil for 4 more minutes. 

11. Let them cool at room temperature.

12. Chill them in refrigerator for 15-20 mins.