Indian sweets: recipes and photos

A mysterious, enchanting, amazing country - India. A rich culture, unique architectural monuments, extraordinary nature fascinate everyone who comes there.

The cuisine of India is also diverse and unforgettable. Sweets and desserts in particular! Without them, the cuisine of this country will not be complete.

Desserts are a sweet tale of India

For local people, food is not just the absorption of calories. They attach special importance to the products, the very process of cooking and the already prepared dish.

And in Indian desserts you can fall in love in absentia, even without having had time to try. Oh very tempting sight!

All sweets in India have a common national name - mithhai. The base is also the same, and consists of two ingredients - milk and melted butter. Since each region adds something of its own to Indian sweets, the recipes are very diverse.

It is believed that such dishes are not really useful for the figure and contribute to weight gain. But this is not about desserts of India, most of which, on the contrary, improve digestion.

Almost all sweets are cooked without eggs. Fruits and vegetables (as constituent ingredients) contain many Indian sweets. Recipes of desserts clearly show this.

A good tradition of the country is to visit guests with a bag of sweets. So the Indians express their respect, sympathy for the owners of the house.

On holiday, locals make an insane amount of sweets. They treat guests, even unexpected friends, to the gods.

Some desserts are wrapped in a special foil. It is edible.

The history of Indian sweets

Local cuisine developed not in itself, but under the influence of two religions - Islam and Hinduism. In addition, Mongolians who ruled the country for a while contributed to their contribution.

Types of sweets

All desserts in India are divided into two large groups:

• Basis - milk (for example, burfi, seaweed, etc.);
• Basis - flour (halva, fret and others).

The first type is different casseroles. Just on milk or with rice. Sweet syrups are prepared for casseroles, raisins, nuts, sugar are added.

This group of desserts includes ice cream.

Indian cuisine: recipes (sweets)

So far, some millennial original recipes are alive. They have come down to our days without any changes. Of course, new ones have appeared all the time. But the special flavor and ancient wisdom of the East remain in every recipe.

Milk Fudge - Burfi

It is very nutritious and deliciously delicious Indian sweets. Recipes of burfi or barfy (both names are possible) are different, and in different editions are found in abundance on the Internet. Prepare this dessert is able to even beginners hostess at home. In addition, it will take only 15 minutes!

One of the options for making this delicacy.

Composition for 6-7 servings:

• Dry milk (fat content from 25%) - 150 grams;
• Butter and sugar - 50 grams each;
• Sour cream - 60 grams.

Mix oil and sugar and put on fire. When the sugar has melted, add sour cream and continue cooking. Dishes are better to choose metal. After five minutes, add the milk powder. Remove from heat. Mix everything with a mixer, removing the lumps. Spread on the molds and in the cold for about five hours.

The result is a delicate dessert! The top can be decorated with cashew nuts, sprinkled with poppy seeds. Dry milk, if desired, replace fresh, and instead of molds use a pan.

Indian sweets: jalebi (recipe)

Another no less refined, but easy to prepare dessert. Sweet crunchy rings of orange or yellow.

This is perhaps the most popular sweet, both among local and among tourists. In India, they do it right on the street.

And you can surprise guests and cook at home the Indian sweets of Jalebi. The recipe is sinking.

For the test, you need:

• Flour - 2 cups;
• Semolina - 2 teaspoons;
• Sour cream - 1 tablespoon;
• A little soda - on the tip of a teaspoon;
• 1.5 cups of water.

In addition to the test, you need another syrup:

• 2 cups of sugar;
• 1 glass of water;
• 1 tablespoon lemon juice.
• For flavor you can add a couple of cardamom pods.
• The last component of the recipe is vegetable oil. It will be needed for deep-frying.

Preparation:

1. Knead the dough as a pancake (according to the density), and put it for two hours in a warm place, pre-covered with a towel. While it comes, take up syrup.
2. Put on the fire sugar and water. Then add to them (if desired) lemon juice and cardamom. Blend the mixture for five minutes, until thick.
3. In form, Jalebi is a spiral. To get this effect, you need a culinary syringe or a bag. From them you can squeeze out the dough and cook Indian sweets. Recipes, as in the case of burfi, have different options.
4. When the bag or syringe is ready, the dough is squeezed out onto the heated pan with a fairly large layer of oil.
5. Fry until golden brown alternately on one side and the other. Watch that the dough does not touch the bottom in any way.
6. We take out sweets with a noisy, let the excess oil drain off. For this, it is better to put them on a napkin. Then put in a pre-cooked syrup.

Crunchy dainty Jaleby is ready!

Hearty Spicy Balls

This is fret - Indian sweetness, the recipe of which will now be presented. Dessert is also popular in Pakistan, Nepal and other countries of South Asia. As always, cooking options are many.

Unlike the previous two recipes, this one will be more difficult in terms of ingredients. Lada is made from chickpea flour. It is not available everywhere.

Nut flour is considered almost therapeutic. Great importance is attached to it in Tibetan medicine, in Ayurveda. Nutovuyu flour used for women's health and beauty.

If you do not have this ingredient at hand, use a pea.

So, what is needed:

• Chickpeas flour - two cups;
• Hazelnut - 2 tbsp. Spoons;
• Butter - 200 grams;
• Powdered sugar - 1 tablespoon;
• Nuts (almonds, cashews, walnuts) - 2 tablespoons (you can choose one kind or use it all);
• Coconut shaving - 1 tbsp. a spoon;
• Cardamom - pinch;
• Cinnamon - ½ teaspoon.

Preparation:

1. In the melted butter in advance, add flour. Constantly stirring it, fry until the moment when the flour will not go a nice nutty flavor.
2. Then go nuts, cardamom, cinnamon. We stir everything again and continue to fry. The last one is sugar powder. The mixture is cooled and we mold balls from it. Before modeling, it is better to moisten your hands with water. You can sprinkle the finished balls with coconut shavings.

Lada does not have to do round. The form is completely arbitrary. If there are special cookie shapes, use them.

India can rightfully be called a paradise for sweet tooth. Try these sweets at least once in your life. Enjoy the taste, savor, admire ... And then cook at home, pleasing loved ones and friends!