Indian sweets and desserts for dummies
Apart from sugar Indian sweets are primarily made of one or some of the following ingredients - flour, milk, cheese and clarified butter. While delhi and a few other north Indian cities are famous for dry sweets ( laddu, barfi, petha etc ) - kolkata is famous for wet ie syrupy ones ( rosogolla, ledikeni, chomchom etc ). And if you have a sweet tooth then you must not forget to try the south and west Indian varieties also - unni appam and puran poli respectively. Carrot halua ( alternate spelling halwa ) or raita is often used as a dessert in north India. In south, west, and east - payesh ( closest match is rice pudding ) is served at the end of the meal.1. Laddu
2. Barfi
3. Rosogolla
4. Ledikeni ( the name derived from lady canning - wife of charles canning who was the governor general of India in 1856 )
5. Carrot halwa ( a mixture of semolina and carrot )
6. Raita ( salty 'n' sour yogurt with several vegetables dipped in )
7. Payesh ( also known as kheer in west and payasam in down south )
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Comments (7)
They all look pretty good..... I'll take one of each
Its a raisin
enjoy!!