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Ingredients and preferred types of dessert vary by region. In the eastern part of India, for example, most are based on milk products. Many are flavoured with almonds and pistachios, spiced with cardamon, nutmeg, cloves and black pepper, and decorated with nuts, or with gold or silver leaf. [1]
Assortment of Indian sweets. Ancient Sanskrit literature from India mention feasts and offerings of mithas (sweet). Rigveda mentions a sweet cake made of barley called apūpa, where barley flour was either fried in ghee or boiled in water, and then dipped in honey. Malpua preserves both the name and the essentials of this preparation. [15]
This category is about desserts or sweets from India. Subcategories. This category has the following 6 subcategories, out of 6 total. ...
Mathura peda is a North Indian sweet dish that originated from Mathura in India. In North India sweets prepared from mawa ( khoya ) are very popular and the peda is also a mawa sweet variety. [ 1 ] Mathura peda is so famous in North India that the term is often used in aphorism like Mathura ka peda au Chhattisgarh ka kheda means "(famous are ...
Starting from 10 rupees to a hundred rupees each for the largest sized one (about 3 feet), these sweets are the second most attractive elements after the temples. The most famous region of Lyangcha is Shaktigarh, the birthplace of the sweet itself. There are many shops selling those sweets along NH 19. [5]
Gulgule are often but not always round Sweet Gulgule. Gulgula (Bhojpuri: 𑂏𑂳𑂪𑂏𑂳𑂪𑂰, romanized: Gulgula) is a traditional sweet made in different regions of India. It is one of the most popular sweets in the market places, [1] it is traditionally made on specific festive occasions in rural areas.
Ledikeni (Bengali: লেডিকেনি) or Lady Kenny is a popular Bangladeshi and Indian sweet consumed in West Bengal, India and Bangladesh. It is a light fried reddish-brown sweet ball made of Chhena and flour, soaked in sugar syrup. Ledikeni is named after Lady Canning, the wife of Charles Canning, the Governor General of India during ...
Sohan halwa (top shelf) and other traditional sweets. In Old Delhi, in 1790, a Ghantewala sweet shop established during the reign of Mughal Emperor Shah Alam II made sohan halwa. It was a popular attraction, [2] [3] but in 2015 it closed due to a lack of profitability. [4] This sweet was originally called sohan in Khariboli (Hindi).