Who knew making Rasgullas was so easy!!! I am genuinely thrilled. Because I could have never imagined how simple this recipe is, until I tried it myself.
OK, back to Rasgulla. It is a very popular cheese based, syrupy sweet dish originally from Orissa. Surprised? So was I, but yeah, the rasgulla made its debut in Orissa and has been a traditional Oriya dish for centuries.
You need:
Whole milk – 1/2 gallon (approx 2 litres, makes around 12 big rasgullas)
Lemon – 1-2 nos.
Sugar – 1.5 Cups
Water
Green cardamom pods – 3-4 nos.
1) Making cottage cheese/paneer – Boil milk in a deep pan and add lemon juice. Once it is completely curdled, you will see granular cottage cheese/paneer and pale yellowish whey completely separated. Place a muslin/ cheese cloth over a colander and pour all the cheese-whey mixture from the pan. Squeeze out as much whey as possible from the paneer by hanging the tightly bundled muslin cloth. It really needs to be granular and dried for the rasgullas to not break while cooking.
2) In a pressure cooker, boil 4 cups of water. Add sugar and cardamom pods. Let it boil on medium high flame while you shape the paneer into rasgulla.
3) Knead the paneer well with your palms, just like you make a dough. Try to make paneer really smooth. To test if the paneer is dry enough, take a little paneer and roll it into a ball with a smooth surface. Now put this in the boiling sugar syrup. If it breaks, try removing more whey from the paneer mixture and mash well. If it doesn't break in 2 min, roll all the mixture into small balls.
4) Add the paneer balls to the pressure cooker. Put the lid with whistle on. Cook this for 7-8 min. Switch off and run under cold water to release pressure. Immediately transfer to a bowl and chill.
2 comments:
LIES, DAMN LIES & NOBIN DAS!
K. C. Das website: http://www.kcdas.co.in/history.php
According to the K. C. Das website itself, friends of this supposed culinary Einstein advised him to patent his famous creation, the rasgulla.
According the website: “Contrary to the advice of his friends and admirers to take out patents, he taught the intricacies of Rossogolla-making to numerous sweetmeat makers.”
Except that there was no patent law in India those days! The first ever legislation to protect intellectual property law had just been introduced in India! It was Act VI of 1856 on Protection of Inventions. It granted “exclusive privileges” to the inventor. The legislation was designed only to safeguard British colonial interests. Not surprisingly, the first petition was filed by an Englishman – a certain civil engineer by the name of George Alfred DePenning for his invention, “An Efficient Punkah Pulling Machine”. Mr. Pennington went on to file the second and the fourth petitions too.
The first real patent law enacted in India was the Indian Patents and Designs Act 1911. Even this law was to safeguard British colonial interests and not meant to protect Indian inventors. Following independence, the government of India enacted the first truly Indian patent act, the Indian Patents Act of 1970. This was the first patent law designed to protect the likes of Indian inventors such as Nobin Das. It was a century after the K. C. Das website claims Nobin Das tried to patent the rasgulla.
To claim that way back in 1858, Nobin Das & Co. thought about patenting the rasgulla proves that the entire story is a utter nonsense concocted by the K. C. Das website!
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