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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.
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.
Some sweets such as kheer and barfi are cooked, varieties like Mysore pak are roasted, some like jalebi are fried, others like kulfi are frozen, while still others involve a creative combination of preparation techniques. [9] [10] [11] The composition and recipes of the sweets and other ingredients vary by region.
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]
Most halwa recipes, however, may omit the khoa, relying only on starch and sugar plus slivered nuts, spices such as cardamom and/ or saffron, and flavorings such as rose water and screwpine. Main course north Indian dishes like khoya paneer, makhmali kofte and khoya matar. [5] Naan roti stuffed with khoa is a specialty of the bakers of Bangalore.
A ball-shaped sweet popular in Indian Subcontinent as well as regions with immigrants from the Subcontinent such as Hijaz. [29] Laddu is made of flour and sugar with other ingredients that vary by recipe. It is often served at festive or religious occasions. Lukhmi: A mince savory or starter of the cuisine of Hyderabad, India. [30]
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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.