My favorite Indian dessert is Ras Malai, which roughly translated means Sweet Cheese. But to enjoy Rasmalai one has to strart with Ras Gullas, an equally delicious dessert. Ras Gullas are very popular dessert dish in Calcutta (Bengal is famous for its mithai), and I still have very vivid memories of my trips to Calcutta en route to Darjeeling, where we would buy and gulp down syrupy Ras Gullas from hawkers on the Calcutta railway station.
Manjula's recipe below is very simple one, and I recommend it to any one who wants to give it a try. In the video Manjula recommends using cane sugar, by which I suppose she means use cane sugar instead of beet sugar or sucrose. However, if one is diabetic should one give up on eating Ras Gullas? Not really. Feel free to substitute sugar with Splenda or some other sweetner. In India today its quite common to find Indian sweets made from artificial sweetners instead of sugar (India has one of the fastest rising rates of diabetes in urban areas mainly on account of lack change in lifestyle and increasing affluence)
But in preparation of the syrup, you are on your own! Use your normal substitution conversion rate to figure out exactly how sweet you would like it to be.
Here is Manjula's video - Thanks Manjula!!
