Rasgulla, also known as Rosogola or Rosogolla, Rasagola is a famous and popularsyrupy dessert in West Bengal and Orissa. It is made from ball-shapeddumplings of Chena dough, cooked in light syrup made of sugar. Thisis done until the syrup penetrates the dumplings. Today I will share how toMak e Rasgulla/ Bengali Sponge Rosogolla, a very basic and simple recipe; noneed to complicate it by adding some other things to chena dough. The qualityof Rasgulla depends only on the mashing of chena (provided there is no water init), it should be mashed for 8-10 minutes in a wide and flat place, ensuringthat no crack is there while making the chena balls.
Stir it occasionally, and let it boil for 2 minutes
Now lower the flame, and slowly add the lemon juice. (Before adding lemonjuice take out 2 tbsp milk and keep it aside to clean the sugar syrupafterward), and keep on stirring, until the milk curdles
Now turn off the flame, and strain the chena from the liquid. ( take a muslin cloth and place it over a big bowl, and now pour the chena with liquidover it and squeeze the cloth tightly and take out the liquid, then put a heavyobject over it for 2-3 hours to let all the liquid out.)
After 3 hours take out the chena from the clothing, and start mashing for8-10 minutes.
Now start making lemon size balls with the help of your palm ensuring thereis no crack in the balls (otherwise while dropping in the sugar syrup it will break and make the syrup messy), and cover them.
Now add sugar and water to a pan/vessel, and boil them in high flame
Add two cardamom pods
Now sprinkle milk (which you kept aside while boiling milk) over it and clean the dirt floating on the syrup.
After boiling for 3-4 minutes slowly drop the chena balls into the sugar syrup
Now chena balls start toppling, and put the flame medium and let them boil for 10-12 minutes, (now you will find the chena balls are toppling very fast,and the size of the Rasgulla also becomes almost double.
So turn off the flame now, and let them rest for 40-45 minutes in the samepan.
Thentransfer them to a serving plate and serve, or you may serve chilled