Indian sweets are delicious but the ingredients are not always figure friendly. Some simple substitutions can make a dessert healthier. For example, rasmalai is typically made with whole milk, but by using reduced fat milk and a little less sugar, the dessert can be lower in calories. Try this recipe and you’ll see that healthier cooking is easy for any cook.


Light and Sweet Rasmalai
4 servings

Ingredients
15 oz container of part skim ricotta cheese
½ cup + 2 tbsp sugar
3 tsp flour
1 ½ cups 2% reduced fat milk
Pinch of saffron
½ tsp ground cardamom
1 tbsp crushed pistachios

Tip: Crumble saffron before adding to milk. This will bring out the flavor.

Instructions:
Place oven rack in upper part of oven, and then preheat oven to 425 degrees F. Put ricotta cheese into a medium size oven safe baking dish. Add ½ cup sugar and flour and mix together. Spread mixture evenly in pan (mixture should be a ½ inch thick). Put in oven for 30 minutes. While ricotta is baking, put 2 cups of milk in a pot and heat over low heat. Add 2 tbsp sugar, saffron, and cardamom. Simmer milk until ricotta is done baking. Let both milk and ricotta cool for about 20 minutes. Cut ricotta into squares, and then pour milk mixture over ricotta. Chill in refrigerator for at least one hour. When serving, put rasmalai into small bowls and then sprinkle pistachios on top.



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