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Gulab jamun (also spelled gulaab jamun; lit. ' Rose water berry ' or 'Rose berry') is a sweet confectionary or dessert, originating in the Indian subcontinent, and a type of mithai popular in India, Pakistan, Nepal, the Maldives and Bangladesh, as well as Myanmar.
Bal mithai is a brown chocolate-like fudge, made with roasted khoya, coated with white sugar balls, and is a popular sweet from Kumaon. It is said to be invented in Almora bazaars in early twentieth century [27] and since then has become a symbol of Kumaoni cuisine.
Syzygium cumini, commonly known as Malabar plum, [3] Java plum, [3] black plum, jamun, jaman, jambul, or jambolan, [4] [5] is an evergreen tropical tree in the flowering plant family Myrtaceae, and favored for its fruit, timber, and ornamental value. [5] It is native to the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia.
A sweet very similar to the modern pantua and ledikeni, but made of rice flour, is mentioned in the 12th century Sanskrit-language text Manasollasa. [ 4 ] Pantua is similar to gulab jamun , [ 1 ] and could be called a Bengali variant of that dish.
Ice cream is a frozen dessert usually made from dairy products, such as milk and cream and often combined with fruits or other ingredients and flavors. Ice cream became popular throughout the world in the second half of the 20th century after cheap refrigeration became common.
Gulab jamun topped with almond slivers is one of the most popular sweets from the Indian subcontinent. Many cuisines include a dessert made of deep-fried starch-based batter or dough. In many countries, a doughnut is a flour-based batter that has been deep-fried. It is sometimes filled with custard or jelly.
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.
Sitabhog is a flavourful dessert that looks like white rice or vermicelli mixed with small pieces of Gulab jamun. Made from cottage cheese (also known as chhana in Bengali), rice flour and sugar, Sitabhog often gives the appearance of pulao, which is albeit sweet in taste. [1]