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Instant Rabri from Ricotta Cheese/Instant Rabri In oven

Aanchal Gupta
An easy dump,stir and bake recipe of Rabri using Ricotta cheese. Ricotta cheese provides the granular/daanedaar texture to the Rabri. Its hands free cooking as the Rabri pretty much cooks by itself in the oven.
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Prep Time 2 minutes
Cook Time 35 minutes
Total Time 37 minutes
Servings 5 cups

Ingredients
  

  • 1 15 oz/425 gms container of Ricotta Cheese Full fat
  • 1 14 oz/396 gms can condensed Milk
  • 1 pint/16 oz/473 ml Half and Half divided
  • Few drops Rose essence or 1 tsp Rose water optional
  • few strands saffron
  • 1/2 to 3/4 cup milk if needed

Instructions
 

  • Preheat oven to 350F
  • In a 2.2 quart rectangular glass/pyrex/oven safe dish, mix Ricotta cheese, condensed milk,half of the Half and Half(8 oz/225 gms) till smooth. If you are using Rose essence, add that as well. I used Rose water which I added in the end
  • Bake for 15 minutes, stir and bake again for 10 minutes, stir and bake again for 10 minutes
  • At this point it should start looking like Rabri with few solid pieces. Bake for few more minutes if needed, ovens vary.
  • During the last 15 minutes of baking, warm the rest of the half and half(8 oz/225 gms) in microwave for 1-2 minutes and add saffron and set aside
  • Once we get the baking dish out of the oven, in about 35-45 minutes stir the Rabri mixture and add the rest of the half and half(with saffron) and rose water.Let it cool
  • Rabri will thicken a bit after cooling.If you feel its too thick or if you prefer it a bit on the thin side, add some cold milk
  • Serve topped with nuts and saffron

Notes

Ovens vary, so after 30 minutes start checking on the rabri. The original recipe by my friend requires it to be baked for 45 minutes with the last 15 minutes being covered by foil. She leaves the foil uncovered from one side for venting. For my oven, it was done in 35 minutes.After 30 minutes, check every 5 minutes. Do not overcook. I don't even take the dish out of the oven, Pull the oven rack out and stir and put it back in the oven.
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