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rosogolla

Dassana Amit’s selected rosogolla shapes freshly made milk chenna with semolina and cooks the balls in light sugar syrup scented with rose water.

About rosogolla

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Dassana Amit calls rasgulla rosogolla in her Bengali sweet recipe. Fresh chenna is kneaded into balls and simmered in a light sugar syrup, producing soft, spongy dumplings that soak up the syrup.

The selected chenna is made from whole milk and lemon juice. It is rinsed in running water, squeezed and weighted to drain, then mixed with semolina and kneaded into a smooth dough.

Small portions are rolled into smooth balls and covered with a moist cloth. Sugar is dissolved in water; the offered milk clarification is used if needed, and portions of the same sugar solution are reserved for cooking and serving.

The balls are gently slid into the boiling syrup and cooked covered, with the pan shaken rather than stirred. The reserved cooking portion is returned in stages. This selection uses the author’s spring-back check to judge the cooked dumplings.

The cooked rosogolla are moved into the serving portion of syrup. The remaining cooking syrup is allowed to become warm and added back; rose water is stirred in after cooling. After soaking, the recipe offers chilled service as an option, selected here.

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Dish type: Dessert
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Bring whole milk to a boil, reduce the heat and add the ready lemon juice gradually until it curdles, then turn off the heat. Strain through muslin, rinse the chenna in running water, squeeze and weight it to drain. Mix in the selected semolina and knead until a smooth dough comes together, using the offered small water adjustment only if dry. Form small balls and cover with a moist cloth. Dissolve the sugar in the named syrup water; use the separate optional milk to clarify if needed, then remove the impurities. Reserve portions of the same syrup for later cooking and for the serving bowl. Bring the remainder to a boil, slide in the balls and cook covered, shaking the pan gently instead of stirring. Return the reserved cooking syrup in stages and use the selected spring-back check. Transfer the cooked balls to the serving portion, add the remaining cooking syrup once warm, then stir in the selected rose water after the whole mixture cools. Let the dumplings soak and refrigerate for the offered chilled presentation.
Serving presentation: Chilled in the selected offered presentation

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India

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Cooking traditions: Bengali

Sources & references

Rasgulla Recipe (Soft & Spongy)