Rasgullas

Ingredients 

Rasagullas:

Milk - 1 litre
Lemon Juice - 3 tbsp (or) Curd - 4 tbsp
water - 1/4 cup
Ice cubes - 4 to 5

sugar syrup:
Water - 1.75 cups
Sugar - 3/4 cup
Cardamom powder- A generous pinch

Method:

Heat milk, bring it to boil and simmer it. Mix lemon juice with 1/4 cup water and keep it aside.
When milk starts boiling, add the lemon juice to the boiling milk and stir properly. Stir continuously till the whey water clears and the milk curdles completely. Now switch off the stove, add ice cubes and allow it to melt completely.
Take a muslin cloth and pour the curdled milk,filtering the whey water completely.Wash it well in running cold water to remove the lemon smell and taste. Squeeze the excess water and hang it aside for 30 mins-1 hour without disturbing it.
By then the paneer would be crumbly in texture. Now knead it well for 10 mins. Once everything comes together to a smooth dough, form them into smooth mini/normal lemon sized balls and keep aside. I made around 18 mini balls.

Heat water in a wide bottomed vessel, then add sugar, cardamom powder and keep stirring till sugar dissolves completely. When the sugar syrup boils and starts bubbling, add the balls slowly one by one. Keep in medium flame and close with a lid. Cook for 10 mins opening the lid every 3-4 mins this is to ensure the vapour passes out not allowing the sugar syrup to ooze out. After 10 mins, the balls would be closely doubled in size.This is the stage when your rasgullas are done. Cool it completely and serve chilled.