Odisha's Sweet Potato Rassabali. Method: Soak the saffron strands in few tsp of warm milk. Rasabali is a melt in mouth sweet dish from Odisha , India. It is one the chapana bhoga of the Jagannath Temple.

It is one of the Chapana bhoga of. This Rasabali recipe is a traditional Odia dessert recipe. Rasabali is a sweet Oriya dish made of milk. You can have Odisha's Sweet Potato Rassabali using 8 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Odisha's Sweet Potato Rassabali

You need 11/2 cup of Homemade Cottage cheese (Chenna).
You need 2 of medium sized Boiled and mashed sweet potatoes (optional).
It's 1/2 litre of Milk.
It's 1/2 cup of Sugar.
It's 1/4 cup of Chopped Dry fruits(Cashew nuts,Almonds) for stuffing.
Prepare 1/2 tsp of Cardamom powder.
It's 2 cup of Ghee for frying.
You need 2 tsp of Semolina / All purpose flour (Maida).

Hot milk is curdled with the help of yogurt and the curd is hung for few hours to obtain chenna. Chenna is made into balls, lightly flattened and deep fried till golden brown. The deep fried disks are immediately soaked in thickened milk and garnished with chopped nuts. Healthy because it is oil free and also as it is made from one of the healthiest plant food - Sweet Potato.

Odisha's Sweet Potato Rassabali step by step

Boil milk in a pan till it becomes slightly thick,(not too thick) then add sugar and cardamom powder and switch off the flame..
Mash The cottage cheese(Chenna) well in a mixing bowl add All purpose flour (Maida) and knead it well then add boiled and sweet potatoes and knead it well. (Generally Sweet Potato is not used in Rassabali but I have given it a twist by adding sweet potatoes, but if you don't want to add, u can skip it)..
Make small balls and stuff it with chopped dry fruits and slightly flatten it in the middle. (as shown in the main pic). (You can skip this stuffing part too as stuffing is also not used in Rassabali but I have made it in my own version). You can also give the desired shape of Rassabali..
Then in a kadai heat ghee and fry it till it attains golden colour. (Make sure not to deep fry it as it will get hardened if you do so)..
Then immediately after frying the Rassabalis add it to the pre-prepared sweetened Milk and let it rest for 2 hrs till the Rassabalis soak the milk..
Garnish it with pistachios and serve it..

It is a very common street food in Delhi, specially in Winter season. A lip smacking and irresistible snacks which can be made very easily at home. Keep stirring it to prevent it from getting burnt. Then add sugar and mix till it dissolves. Now add cardamom powder and garnish it with cashew nuts and raisins.