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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.
Just think about your favorite Indian dishes: fried samosas, fried Jalebis, paneer cheese sautéed in Manchurian sauce, chicken tikka masala kissed with ghee and heavy cream.
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.
Gajar ka halwa is a combination of nuts, milk, sugar, khoya and ghee with grated carrots. [11] [12] It is a light nutritious dessert with less fat (a minimum of 10.03% and an average of 12.19%) than many other typical sweets from the Indian subcontinent. [13]
The PieCaken combines a lot of desserts into one dish that shouldn't work together — but somehow do. The bottom is a pecan pie, the middle is a pumpkin pie, and the top is a spice cake.
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The word "dessert" originated from the French word desservir "to clear the table" and the negative of the Latin word servire. [2] There are a wide variety of desserts in western cultures, including cakes, cookies, biscuits, gelatins, pastries, ice creams, pies, puddings, and candies.
Khaja, plain or sweet mentioned in Silao, was a wheat flour preparation fried in ghee similar to Chandrakala, a flaky dessert from South India. [1] Khaja is believed to have originated from the eastern parts of the former state of Magadh and the former United Provinces and Magadh.