When making single serve sweets, how can I not make Rasmalai? Rasmalai is one of my favourite sweets from childhood. My dad introduced me to rasmalai when in Pondicherry. We used to visit a Bengali sweet shop where he bought me rasmalai with some other milk sweets. Somehow the taste of rasmalai I tasted over there lingers even today and any picture of rasmalai kindles those memories. I never thought I would make milk sweets when I grow up, but once I caught the hang of it, there is no turning back. If you check out the Sweets recipe index of the blog, you will find numerous milk sweets and I am mighty proud of it. If you remember my April Indian milk sweets marathon, you would surely understand my craze for milk sweets.
So when I decided making single serve sweets, I decided that rasmalai would be part of it. The base for the best rasmalai is the paneer. If your paneer is good, then the rasmalai would be nice and spongy but if there are issues, then they won’t turn good. As I have been making malai paneer regularly, I made a batch and tried using it up for this recipe. The batch I made had some water content in it and I didn’t think about it when I tried. The first batch of the paneer discs dissolvedinto the mlk while boiling. I had it as kheer that day and for the second try I remade my paneer, this time taking cake to remove as much as water possible. The second trial turned out good. As this is for single serving, the procedure is quite different from the usual rasmalai making. Usually paneer discs are cooked in sugar syrup. Milk is reduced and the cooked discs are added at a later stage. But for this paneer itself is cooked in milk to avoid any wastage of syrup or milk. That is the main point of making single serve dishes, right? So are you interested to know more. Keep reading the recipe and enjoy it.!
Ingredients:
Paneer – 40 gm
Milk – 1/4 cup
Amul Fresh Cream – 1/4 cup
Saffron – a pinch
Cardamom Powder – a pinch
Erythritol – 1 tsp
Stevia – 1/4 tsp
Pistachio For Garnish
Procedure:
Knead paneer until it resembles a smooth dough.
Divide it into two and shape them into flat discs.
In a sauce pan mix together milk, cream, cardamom powder, stevia, erythritol and saffron.
Bring it to boil.
Add the paneer discs, keep flame low and cook for 5 – 10 minutes.
The paneer discs will puff up and you will see cream forming a layer on top. Once the milk mixture is nice and thick, remove from flame and allow it to cool completely.
Refrigerate it until chilled.
Transfer into serving bowl, garnish with chopped pistachios and serve immediately.
Notes:
If using only stevia add 1/2 tsp and omit erythritol.
If you want to add regular sugar then use 1 tbs of sugar and omit stevia and erythritol.
Use my soft malai paneer for the best results. Click on image for recipe.
Sugar Free Ras Malai Recipe - Single Serve Sweets
Ingredients
- Paneer - 40 gm
- Milk - 1/4 cup
- Amul Fresh Cream - 1/4 cup
- Saffron - a pinch
- Cardamom Powder - a pinch
- Erythritol - 1 tsp
- Stevia - 1/4 tsp
- Pistachio For Garnish
Instructions
- Knead paneer until it resembles a smooth dough.
- Divide it into two and shape them into flat discs.
- In a sauce pan mix together milk, cream, cardamom powder, stevia, erythritol and saffron.
- Bring it to boil.
- Add the paneer discs, keep flame low and cook for 5 - 10 minutes.
- The paneer discs will puff up and you will see cream forming a layer on top. Once the milk mixture is nice and thick, remove from flame and allow it to cool completely.
- Refrigerate it until chilled.
- Transfer into serving bowl, garnish with chopped pistachios and serve immediately.
Notes
Check out the Blogging Marathon page for the other Blogging Marathoners doing this BM#90
Learnt a new method of making Ras-malai , my favorite today. By the way, what is erythritol? Where can we get that ? what else could be used in its place? Why do we need it in this recipe ?
Erythritol is a zero calorie sweetener and it is used when you calculate calories i foods. Just so that we can omit calorie dense sugar. You can buy it on amazon. But if you are not into calculating the macros, then you can use normal sugar and omit stevia and erythritol.
yep we all learn from our mistakes! makes us pro 😉 ur rasamalai looks perfect! my favourite……….
This one surely looks fantastic Gayathri, making for a single serve is always tricky, glad you got it done so well!
Ras malai is my favourite too…love this single serve version!!!
Perfectly made ras malai. Loved all the sugar free single serve desserts which you posted this week.
This seems easier than our regular method of making rasmalai. Best thing is even if it fails, we get paneer kheer. Years back, when I just started making rasmalai, my rasmalai always ended up in paneer kheer only. this single serve rasmalai is looking soooo scrumptious.
Lipsmacking here, this single serve rasmalai looks absolutely alluring. My mouth is just watering here. You simply rocked with your single serve dessert Gayathri.
The texture looks so good! It is amazing how you have come up with alternative processes for these single serving desserts.
wow on this ras malai click I am drooling over n over again. so tempting.
Recipe looks so lipsmacking and tasty.. now u have good collection of bengali sweets.
Such nice and delicious looking ras malai and it must have tasted amazing even without sugar. Aren’t there any side effects of using erythritol??
First-time I’m hearing this sugar free ras malai, this dish is on my wishlist!
Will be making Rasmalai tomorrow. I only use erythritol for my cooking. If I want to omit Stevia then how much erythritol should I use?
I hope i am not late in replying. If using just erythritol, you need 2.5 times the quantity given in the recipe.