Indian Cream Cheese and Khoa Ball in Syrup

This is one of the outstanding Indian sweets and is likely to prove extremely popular with Europeans because of its remarkable resemblance to preserved plums. The lustrous brown coloured gulab jamans float on a thick transparent syrup and stand out from it as the stars do from the sky.

They are in fact spherical balls made from a mixture of khoa (dried fresh whole milk) and chenna (Indian soft cream cheese) cooked in syrup. The rose-flavoured preparation spreads its aroma throughout