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Delicious Desserts From All Over India

Delicious Desserts From All Over India

Adhirasam looks similar to a vada but is a Diwali sweet in Tamil Nadu. It is made using jaggery.

Delicious Desserts From All Over India


Anarsa is eaten mostly during Diwali in Central and Northern India and is made of jaggery, rice, poppy seeds and ghee.

Delicious Desserts From All Over India

The Balushahi is made of refined flour and are deep-fried in ghee and glazed with sugar syrup.

Delicious Desserts From All Over India

Boorelu is a festival sweet made of rice balls, fried and stuffed with grated coconut, sugar and dried fruits

Delicious Desserts From All Over India

Popular in Karnataka, the Chiroti is a part of all weddings in the state.


Delicious Desserts From All Over India

Dharwad pedha originated in Karnataka and is a dessert that is around 175 years old. These are made of milk, sugar and condensed milk.

Delicious Desserts From All Over India

Gaavlu is the Telugu word for shells and the sweet resembles them. This is made of a mixture of rice flour and milk.

Delicious Desserts From All Over India

A popular sweet from Haryana, the Ghewar is made from arrowroot or cornflour, ghee, kewda essence and sugar.

Delicious Desserts From All Over India

Gond originated in Rajasthan but is eaten extensively in Haryana as well. Gond laddus are made of flour, ground sugar, ghee, makhane, edible gum resin or ‘gond’.

Delicious Desserts From All Over India

The Khaja is normally prepared as an offering to Lord Jagannath of Puri, Odisha and are made with flour and dipped in sugar syrup.

Delicious Desserts From All Over India

A delicious combination of fried flat bread and condensed milk eaten in Bihar after the Chhath Pooja.

Delicious Desserts From All Over India

Kulfi is a frozen milk based dessert widely loved in North India but available across the country. Kulfis are Indian variants of the ice cream made of condensed milk.

Delicious Desserts From All Over India

Ariselu is similiar to the pitha in Odisha made from rice flour, ghee and jaggery.

Delicious Desserts From All Over India

Malpoas are mainly eaten in West Bengal. These are deep fried round cakes made of refined flour and semolina and then dipped in syrup.

Delicious Desserts From All Over India

Jodhpur’s pride – the famous Mawa Kachoris – is a dish invented by the city’s Rawat Mishthan Bhandar. It is made of kalakand stuffed in kachoris.

Delicious Desserts From All Over India

Makhan Malai is a dish made from milk cream. India’s lightest dessert comprises saffron flavoured frothed cream made by hanging unsalted butter overnight and then aerating it by beating it.

Delicious Desserts From All Over India

Moong Daal Halwa is made from moong – a type of lentil, ghee and sugar.


Delicious Desserts From All Over India

According to legend, Mysore pak first originated in the kitchen of the Mysore Palace in Karnataka. It is prepared with butter, ghee, sugar and gram flour.

Delicious Desserts From All Over India

Holige or Obbattu is a dessert served during auspicious occasions and during important festivals. In Maharashtra it is called Puran Poli. This is a type of flat bread made of rice flour, grated coconut and jaggery.

Delicious Desserts From All Over India

Srivilliputtur is the place for Palkova which is made from boiling milk with sugar. According to legend, Palkova came from a Haryana family settled here.

Delicious Desserts From All Over India

Pitha is a rice flour cake eaten widely in West Bengal and Orissa. There are many varieties of pithas. Jaggery and coconut are key ingredients for pithas.

Delicious Desserts From All Over India

Palangtod looks like Kalakand but has a distinct taste. Popular in Sonipat , Panipat and Rohtak.

Delicious Desserts From All Over India

The name Pootharekulu is derived from a Telugu word meaning coated (Putha) sheets( Rekulu). Made out of starched rice, black gram, sugar and ghee, this is also known as the paper sweet because of its appearance.

Delicious Desserts From All Over India

The signature sweet dish of Lucknow.


Delicious Desserts From All Over India

Sweet Seedai is a hard sweet made with jaggery.


Delicious Desserts From All Over India

Seeyam is a lentil and sugar ball coated with rice and urad daal batter and fried in oil. Popular in Chennai.

Delicious Desserts From All Over India

Kesari Bhath is popular in Karnataka and is called Sheera or Sooji Halwa in North India. Semolina, sugar, ghee, water and milk are used to prepare this dessert.

Delicious Desserts From All Over India

Mostly a staple of Delhi and Haryana, the sohan halwa is made by solififying a mixture of water, sugar, milk and cornflour. Saffron, ghee almonds, pistachios and cardamom seeds are added abundandtly.

Delicious Desserts From All Over India

Sunnundalu is an Andhra Pradesh delicacy and is a variant of the laddu. It is made of urad daal, ground sugar, cardamom seeds and ghee.

Delicious Desserts From All Over India

A staple of Bihar, Jharkhand and eastern Uttar Pradesh, thekuas are normally made during the Chhath puja. They are made of wheat flour, melted sugar and ghee.

Delicious Desserts From All Over India

The earthy jalebis are primarily a staple of North India but can be found in sweet shops everywhere in the country and are made from flour batter and are deep fried.

Delicious Desserts From All Over India

Made with milk solid khoya and sugar and deep fried, the gulab jamun can easily beat rasgulla as India’s main dessert.

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