After many failed attempts at Rasmalai/ Ras Malai I finally found this perfect recipe that results into soft spongy malai balls that absorb great amount of ras or rabri.
I remember first trying the recipe when I was in high school and in bad read the recipe in some news paper in the school library. It was looking and sounding so easy and tempting that we friends decided to Make it on the coming weekend and we were all excited to share our results with each other. And then came the weekend when we all bought the ingredients with great enthusiasm, went home and followed the recipe to the T (at least I did) and lo! We needed up with some hard chewy balls and a very sweet milk syrup lol.. next day in the school all three of us were trying to avoid the ras malai topic but somehow we finally discussed and laughed together deciding that we are not going to make it again hehe..
Anyway, coming back to the recipe, to get perfect ras malai you need to use unsweetened milk powder if you're making this instant version or else you can go the chenna way. But in that case you will have to boil and then curdle and then drain the milk to remove all the moisture and it's such a hassle you know hence I prefer this instant recipe using powdered milk and it is just so simple so easy that I'm sure anyone can make it successfully if they use right ingredients and follow the recipe step by step.
