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This is a list of Indian sweets and desserts, also called mithai, a significant element in Indian cuisine. Indians are known for their unique taste and experimental behavior when it comes to food. Many Indian desserts are fried foods made with sugar, milk or condensed milk. Ingredients and preferred types of dessert vary by region.
The origin of sweets in the Indian subcontinent has been traced to at least 500 BCE when, records suggest, both raw sugar (gur, vellam, jaggery) and refined sugar (sarkara) were being produced. [20] By 300 BCE, kingdom officials in India were acknowledging five kinds of sugar in official documents.
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An assortment of desserts. A chocolate-strawberry crumble ball. Indian confectionery desserts (known as mithai, or sweets in some parts of India).Sugar and desserts have a long history in India: by about 500 BC, people in India had developed the technology to produce sugar crystals.
Laddu or laddoo is a spherical sweet from the Indian subcontinent made of various ingredients and sugar syrup or jaggery. It has been described as "perhaps the most universal and ancient of Indian sweets." [1] Laddus are often served during celebrations and religious festivals, especially those associated with the Hindu deity Ganesha. [1] [2] [3]
Soan papdi (Bengali: শন পাপডি় śan pāpṛi, Hindi: सोन/सन पापड़ी son/sohan pāpṛī), also known as san papri, shompapri, sohan papdi, shonpapdi [1] is a popular dessert in the Indian subcontinent. It is made of gram flour (besan), all-purpose flour, ghee, sugar and milk. [2]
Sandesh (Bengali: সন্দেশ Shôndesh) is a dessert, originating from the Bengal region in the eastern part of the Indian subcontinent, created with milk and sugar. [1] Some recipes of sandesh call for the use of chhena or paneer (which is made by curdling the milk and separating the whey from it) instead of milk itself. [2]
Rasgulla (literally "syrup filled ball") [a] is a syrupy dessert popular in the eastern part of South Asia.It is made from ball-shaped dumplings of chhena dough, cooked in light sugar syrup.