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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.
Other traditional Indian sweets and desserts famous throughout the history of Indian food include: Mysore pak (a dessert made out of ghee, sugar and chick pea flour) Halwa (or Halva in modern English spelling); made out of flour, butter and sugar; Jangiri; Jhajariya; Dharwad pedha; Karadantu
Thaggu ke ("Cheat's") laddu is made from khoa (condensed milk), semolina, and white sugar and is a specialty of Kanpur, India. It was invented by Mattha Pandey, a follower of Mahatma Gandhi . Pandey heard Gandhi refer to white sugar, which was popularized in India by the British, as "white poison" and disease-causing.
Kulfi (/ k ʊ l f iː /) is a frozen dairy dessert from the Indian subcontinent. It is often described as "traditional Indian ice cream". [3] Kulfi originated in 16th-century Delhi during the Mughal era. It is part of the national cuisines of India and Pakistan. [citation needed] It is also popular in Bangladesh, Myanmar, Nepal, Sri Lanka, and ...
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In 1930, the introduction of vacuum packing by Nobin Chandra's son Krishna Chandra Das led to the availability of canned Rasgullas, which made the dessert popular outside Kolkata, and subsequently, outside India. [44] Krishna Chandra's son Sarada Charan Das established the K.C. Das Pvt Ltd company in 1946. [45]
Typical desserts include, flatbread called puran poli with stuffed lentil and jaggery mix, a preparation made from strained yogurt, sugar and spices called shrikhand, a sweet milk preparation made with evaporated milk called basundi, semolina and sugar based kheer and steamed dumplings stuffed with coconut and jaggery called modak.
According to culinary historian Darra Goldstein, modaka is an ancient sweet that dates back to around 200 BCE. [7] Early mentions of modaka are found in Ayurveda, Ramayana and Mahabharata where it is described as a dumpling confectionery with sweet stuffing.