Rasabali

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Rasabali is a sweet from Odisha that takes chhena—farmer cheese pressed into thin, palm-sized patties—and fries it until it turns reddish-brown, then soaks the whole thing in rabri, a thickened, cardamom-touched sweetened milk. The flattening matters: it lets the cheese drink in the milk rather than resist it. Sacred enough to be offered at the Baladevjew Temple in Kendrapara and counted among the temple foods of Jagannath in Puri, it earned GI protection in 2023.

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Rasabali (Odia: ରସାବଳୀ, IAST: rasābaḷi) is a sweet dish from Odisha, India. It consists of deep fried flattened reddish brown patties of chhena (farmer cheese) that are soaked in thickened, sweetened milk (rabri). Flattening the chhena into palm-sized patties is done in order to allow them to absorb the milk more readily. The thickened milk is also usually lightly seasoned with crushed cardamom pods. Rasabali is offered to Baladevjew, and originated in the Baladevjew Temple of Kendrapara. It is one of the Chapana bhoga of Puri's Jagannath Temple. It received a GI tag on 3 October 2023.

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