Mouth-watering Sweet Dishes - Kesari Rajbhog

Kesari Rajbhog:

Ingredients:
250g Cottage cheese(from cow's milk), 1 tsp refined flour(maida), 1 tsp semolina(rawa), 12-15 pistachio nuts, 6-8 almonds, 3 tbsp milk solids(khoya-grated), 2 tbsp rose syrup, 1/2 tsp green cardamom powder, 4-5 cups sugar, 3-4 strands saffron.

Method:
Take fresh cottage cheese,knead it well till smooth.Add refined flour and semolina and knead it gently.Divide into 12-14 equal portions.Soak pistachio nuts and almonds in 1 cup hot water for 5 minutes.Drain,peel and chop them roughly.Combine grated milk solids with green cardamom powder and rose syrup.Knead it into a dough.Mix in the roughly chopped pistachio nuts, almonds and divide into 12-14 equal portions.Stuff a portion of khoya into each portion of cottage cheese and form them into marble-sized balls. Combine sugar with 1/2 litre water.Bring it to a boil and make thin sugar syrup.Remove scum, if any and pass it through a muslin cloth.Bring sugar syrup to a boil in a wide-mouthed pan and add saffron.Gently slide in stuffed cottage cheese balls and cook for 4-5 minutes on high heat.Sprinkle about a quarter cup hot water and continue to cook on high heat for another 5 minutes or till they are almost double in size.Remove and keep in sufficient quantity of sugar syrup.Refrigerate and serve chilled.