Tender cheese balls in saffron-cream sauce

Name: Tender cheese balls in saffron-cream sauce
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: India
Ingredients: 2.5 ml/½ tsp ground cinnamon; 227 g/8 oz paneer (Indian cheese); 50 g/2 oz/¼ cup caster (superfine) sugar, plus 15 ml/1 tbsp; 2.5 ml/½ tsp ground cardamom; 150 ml/¼ pint/⅔ cup double (heavy) cream; slices of mango or papaya, to serve; 25 g/1 oz/⅙ cup raisins; 25 g/1 oz/¼ cup cashew nuts, chopped; slices of mango or papaya, to serve; 600 ml/1 pint/2½ cups full-fat (whole) milk; 30 ml/2 tbsp rice flour; large pinch of saffron, pounded; 15 ml/1 tbsp hot milk; 2.5 cm/1 in piece cinnamon stick; 1 bay leaf; 4 green cardamom pods, bruised; 3 cloves

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Complete Indian Regional Cookbook

By Mridula Baljekar

Published 2017

About

This dessert, Channer Payesh, is absolutely delicious. Traditionally, the milk is reduced to the consistency of evaporated milk by simmering and stirring constantly over a long period of time. To reduce time and effort, rice flour and double cream have been used here to create the same effect.

Ingredients

227 g/8 oz paneer (Indian cheese)
2.5 ml/½

Asia
India
East India
Dessert
Vegetarian
Gluten-free

Method

Crumble the paneer into a bowl and add the cinnamon, cardamom and 15 ml/1 tbsp of the sugar. Stir together, then knead the mixture until it is smooth and shape it into balls t