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Lokma, also Loukoumades, is a dessert made of leavened and deep fried dough balls, soaked in syrup or honey, sometimes coated with cinnamon or other ingredients. The dish was described as early as the 13th century by al-Baghdadi as luqmat al-qādi (لُقْمَةُ ٱلْقَاضِيِ), "judge's morsels". [2] [3] [4]
Fried, sugar syrup based Gulab jamun: Fried milk balls soaked in sweet syrup, such as rose syrup or honey. [4] Fried, sugar syrup based Imarti: Sugar syrup, lentil flour. Fried, sugar syrup based Jalebi: Dough fried in a coil shape dipped in sugar syrup, often taken with milk, tea, yogurt, or lassi. [5] Fried, sugar syrup based Kaju katli
The solids are kneaded with flour (maida), and small balls of this dough are deep-fried in oil or ghee (clarified butter) at a low temperature, [1] then soaked in a light sugar syrup flavored with green cardamom and rose water, kewra or saffron. [2] Hot gulab jamun is often served with vanilla ice cream, or kulfi.
Deep-fried sweet dough balls covered with crystal sugar or sesame seeds. Possibly influenced from the Dutch Oliebollen. Bolinho de chuva: Brazil: Deep-fried sweet dough balls Bomboloni: Italy: Similar to German Berliner, with a cream (or chocolate) filling. Boortsog: Central Asia: A fried dough food found in the cuisines of Central Asia, Idel ...
Another similar dessert is gulab jamun – ball-shaped pastry from buffalo–milk–based quick dough that is fried and floated in rose water and cardamon flavored sweet syrup. Indonesia – Donat kentang (Potato Doughnut) is an Indonesian style fried mashed potato doughnut; it is a ring-shaped doughnut made from a combination of flour and ...
Before frying the batter, sugar syrup is prepared and is flavored with edible camphor, cloves, cardamom, kewra and saffron. The fried material is then dipped in sugar syrup until it expands in size and soaks up a significant amount of the syrup. In Northern India, imartis are drained, so tend to be drier than jalebis.
Similar Indian food. Adhirasam are a Tamil sweet doughnut; Makhan Bada (Balushahi), deep fried dough soaked in sugar syrup; Gulab jamun, buffalo milk–based quick dough that is deep fried and floated in sweet syrup; Imarti, deep fried fermented dough dipped in syrup with many twists and turns; Jalebi, deep fried fermented dough dipped in syrup ...
These balls were used as an antiseptic and to deliver medication. However, the first documented mention of laddu as a sweet is in the 11th-century Western Indian cookbook Lokopakara. It gives a recipe for making laddus with shavige (rice vermicelli), ghee, and sugar syrup, which were formed into balls and fried in ghee.