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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]
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. In the local language, these crystals were called khanda (खण्ड), which is the source of the word candy. [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]
[10] [11] These laddus are called dinkache ladoo in Marathi and gond ka laddu in Hindi. The main ingredient is gum arabic which is collected from the babhul tree . Other ingredients include coconut, almonds, cashews, dates, spices such as nutmeg and cardamom , poppy seeds, ghee, and sugar.
Sohan Halwa (top shelf) and other traditional Indian sweets at Ghantewala in Chandni Chowk Emperor Shah Alam II, (r. 1759 - 1806) during whose rule the shop was established and got its name It was founded by Lala Sukh Lal Jain who had arrived in the walled city of Delhi from Amber, India , a few years after Sindhia restored Mughal Emperor Shah ...
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Imarti is a sweet from India. [1] It is made by deep-frying vigna mungo flour (urad dal flour) batter in a circular flower shape, then soaking in sugar syrup. Alternative names include Amitti, Amriti, Emarti, Omritti, Jahangir and Jhangiri/Jaangiri. This dish is not to be confused with jalebi, which is thinner and sweeter than Imarti. [2]
Peda (pronounced) or Pera is an Indian sweet that originated in the city of Mathura, Uttar Pradesh, India.Traditionally prepared as thick, semi-soft round balls, its main ingredients are khoa, sugar and traditional flavourings including cardamom seeds.