If you are a person who loves India and you have a sweet tooth, then you are going to love these delicious recipes of Indian sweets that I am going to share in this blog.
These Indian desserts are filled with rich aromatic spices and consist of dried fruits like cashew nuts, pistachios, and almonds or sometimes soaked in rose syrup or sugar syrup and garnished with rose petals and saffron strands.
These Indian desserts will light up your dying taste buds and light up your homes with a delicious aroma like Indian homes.
Here are the best 15 Indian desserts that you will absolutely love
1. Rice Kheer
This sweet treat is a traditional Indian dessert of north Indian cuisine primarily, this deliciously creamy sweet pudding is part of Muslim culture and heritage. This exotic Indian dessert is made during the festive occasions of Eid -al- Fitr, Eid-al-Adha, and the time of Ramadan, which is a month of fasting.
To create this traditional Indian dessert recipe, all you need is 3 ingredients full-fat milk, sugar, and rice flour. To enhance its flavor Indians add milk solids, saffron, and cardamom powder, and rose water into this sweet pudding to give the original recipe a delicious twist and topped it with dry fruits and rose petals.
This rice kheer easy Indian dessert recipe is my all-time favorite because it is a part of my culture, and we Indian Muslims are lovers of Indian desserts and sweets.
2. Carrot Pudding (Gajrela)
This Indian sweet is another delicious traditional Indian dessert of north Indian dessert cuisine, primarily, this easy Indian dessert is made and part of both Sikh and Muslim culture.
This carrot pudding is so made for dinner parties and special occasions in Indian homes.
To create this incredibly delicious sweet pudding all you need is some grated carrots, sugar, whole milk, rice flour, cardamom powder and dry fruits.
First, add the whole milk and sugar and let it boil then add rice flour and carrots and let this dish cook until the carrots become soft then add dried fruits and cardamom powder and gently mix this all and serve it with some condensed milk and chopped nuts.
This is an original recipe from my Indian kitchen. I hope you will enjoy this Indian dessert and note it down into your next best โIndian dessertsโ recipe list to cook.
3. Shahi Tukda
This Indian dessert is popular in north India and is a very easy Indian dish that can be made in just 10 minutes. This popular dessert is famous in Indian cuisine as a part of the Mughals culture and Indian food. During the times of the Mughal empire, this sweet dish was made to use those leftover bread and transform them into an incredibly delicious sweet treat.
To create this traditional Indian dessert, you will have to first butter the bread, toast it, and spread it onto a tray. Now take a saucepan and add milk, sugar, crushed cardamom and saffron and let it boil for 5 minutes.
Now pour this sweet syrup onto the toasted bread and bake it for 2 minutes in the oven garnished them with some cashew nuts and rose petals.
Serve it with some deliciously creamy rabdi and enjoy it after dinner or create it on special occasions or on times of festivity.
4. Rabdi
This creamy dessert is another delicious sweet dish from the part of north India and a really famous Indian sweet. This absolutely delicious creamy dessert is served warm and upon lots of many Indian desserts like Gulab jamun, Jalebi, Shahi Tukda, Kulfi, and many other Indian desserts. It has a crumbly texture due to milk solids, chopped nuts, and thickened milk.
To create these dessert recipes, all you need is milk, some milk powder, sugar, crushed cardamom and saffron, and chopped cashews, and some rose water.
Take a non-stick saucepan and add in your milk and let it boil till it is reduced and dense and yellow color now adds sugar, milk powder, crushed cardamom, saffron strands, rose water, and chopped dry fruits, garnish it with rose petals and condensed milk.
5. Kulfi
India is famous for its Indian ice cream, which is kulfi. These delicious sweet Indian desserts are eaten in almost the whole of India due to their dense, creamy texture. Add this recipe to your dessert recipes to make them whenever you want to eat an Indian sweet treat. Kulfi originated in northern India and has always been the mostly eaten Indian dessert in India.
To create this easy Indian dessert recipe all you need is to reduce the milk and add in it sugar, cardamom and saffron and gently stir it onto the stove. Now add those delicious sweet rose water into the mixture. Cook it until it is dense and your delicious sweet recipe of kulfi is done. Pour the mixture into a remain or ice cream tube, add chopped nuts, and let it chill in the fridge for about 3 hours until it is set.
Serve this at dinner parties or in festive occasions. I hope that you will try out these Indian desserts and add them to your delicious recipes list.
6. Sheer Korma
You will definitely going to love this sweet recipe dish so, add it to your Indian dessert recipes to make. Sheer Korma is a traditional Indian dessert recipe made at the time of Eid-al-Fitr and Eid-al-Adha. Itโs an easy Indian dish to prepare and in no time it will be finished. This Indian food requires milk, sugar, vermicelli, sweet syrup, saffron and cardamom, rice flour, chopped nuts, and rose petals.
First, add milk into a saucepan and let it cook, now add in sugar syrup, sugar, and rice flour into the mixture let it cook by gently stirring the sweet dish for about 30 minutes and now add in the vermicelli and cooked it for about 10 minutes. Lastly, add into the sheer your rose water and dried fruits and garnish it with rose petals.
Your delicious sweet recipe is done make during your dinner parties or special occasions. And add it to your Indian desserts list.
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7. Gulab Jamun
These other Indian desserts are part of both north Indian as well as south Indian cuisine. Gulab jamun sweets are so delicious and mouth-watering that a person who does not have a sweet tooth will get one. These black balls are dipped in sugar syrup and made from milk powder and milk solids. Every Indian shop will have this dessert with a different variety of Indian dessert recipes. Traditionally these are made in almost all Indian homes and the sweets recipe that I am going to share is an original recipe from my kitchen.
To make these soft no bake protein balls or gulab jamun you are going to need milk powder, white flour, sugar, milk, and butter and you have to create a dough of this mixture. Let this rest in the fridge for 1 hour and then create round or cylindrical balls and deep fry them in oil. Once done remove them and let them cool for a while.
To create the sugar syrup you will have to need an equal amount of sugar and an equal amount of water and let it boil now add some saffron and cardamom into the syrup and stir it. Add rose water, dip the gulab jamun and let them soak into the syrup for an hour.
Your other Indian dessert recipes is done serve them with some condensed milk or chopped nuts.
Add all these recipes to your Indian desserts recipes list.
8. Gajar Ka Halwa
Another delicious recipe for Indian dessert that you should add to your delicious recipes list should be Gajar ka Halwa. This sweet dish is made at the time of festive occasions and served at dinner parties.
Rich with carrots and amazing flavor this sweet dish is everyoneโs favorite. All youngsters and elders love this Indian dessert.
Gajar Ka Halwa is famous in the northern part of India and you would find all the sweets shops filled with this absolutely delicious dessert.
To make this Indian dessert recipe, you will need some grated carrots, butter or ghee, sugar, thickened milk, condensed milk, milk solids, kewra water, sesame seeds, saffron, and cardamom.
First, add the ghee into the pan and add in your grated carrots and roast your carrots for half an hour while stirring them thoroughly. Now add sugar and milk and cover them with a lid and let the carrots remove water and they are reduced to half of the amount.
Check that it is done then add your milk solids, kewra water, saffron and cardamom powder, and mix it until everything is combined now sprinkle the chopped nuts and pour the condensed milk on the top.
Serve it with some deliciously creamy rabdi and enjoy it after dinner or create it on special occasions or on times of festivity.
If you have noticed most Indian desserts consist of the same ingredients, but the result of every Indian desserts is different and delicious.
9. Sooji Halwa
Another delicious recipe for Indian dessert that you should add to your delicious Indian desserts recipes list should be Sooji Halwa.
Sooji (Semolina) and sugar syrup dessert flavored with cardamom powder and garnished with chopped nuts.
Suji Halwa is a delicious dessert to prepare when unexpected guests arrive since it is an easy Indian dessert recipe and super easy to cook.
All youngsters and elders love this Indian dessert
To make this Indian dessert recipe you will need semolina, butter or ghee, sugar, water, kewra water, cardamom and chopped nuts.
First, add the ghee into the saucepan, add in your sooji, roast it on medium flame, and stir it occasionally.
In another pan add sugar and water and create a sugar syrup from it. Once it is cooked and reduced add cardamom powder to it.
Now gently add this sugar syrup into your roasted sooji carefully so you donโt burn your hand and combined the mixture until it takes a crumbly texture now add your chopped nuts into the sooji halwa.
Your Indian dessert is ready to serve.
Serve it with some deliciously creamy rabdi and enjoy it after dinner or create it on special occasions or on times of festivity.
Add this simple easy Indian delicious recipe into your โIndian dessertsโ just going to try list.
10. Kaju Katli
Kaju Katli is a traditional Indian dessert made from cashew, sugar, water, cardamom powder and rose petals the mixture is a kind of fudgy texture and this is one of the most loved Indian sweets.
This Indian dessert is made in North India during festivals. Kaju katli is one of the most popular Indian sweets which is gifted to relatives and friends during festive occasions.
Kaju katli is also called Kaju Burfi. But, unlike thick burfi, Kaju katli is thin. Because katli means thin slice.
To make this delicious recipe check out this article step to step to make this perfect Kaju katli.
11. Milk Cake
This delicious Indian dessert is everyoneโs favourite, it is such a sophisticated and mouth-watering dessert that you will forget all about your milk puddings.
Milk cakes are Indian sweets, not cake which is made in the northern part of India, mostly in Uttar Pradesh.
This is so delicious that every Indian shop has various varieties of it, be it in the form of barfi, or a crumbly texture.
This is also made in the time of festivities and is present in the gifts to relatives.
Milk cake is a mixture of milk, sugar and cardamom.
Milk is reduced to thick consistency like solid milk, then lemon juice is added to curdle the mixture and then sugar is added and it is cooked until it is fully dry.
The result is a deep brown sweet, which is slightly sour and absolutely delicious. And then this mixture is set and cut into a small square shape.
I hope that you liked this recipe of sweets and would want to try it out at your home.
12. Jalebi
Jalebi is an easy Indian sweet and it is much popular in south India. You will find it in almost all Indian sweet shops and local stalls because it is mostly eaten for breakfast.
These spiral-shaped crisp and juicy desserts are made from all-purpose flour, sugar syrup and gram flour.
First, we prepare a batter from the above ingredients and then let it rest to ferment to get its delicious unique flavour.
Then this batter is poured into the hot oil in a spiral shape and fried until it is crisp then these crispy delicious jalebis are soaked into the sugar syrup.
These are my favourite Indian sweets that I eat once a week and I tell you these are so addictive and marvellous.
13. Rasogulla
Rasogullas are Bengali sweets and part of south Indian cuisine. These delectable spongy, light and juicy balls are so delicious and sweet that they are going to awaken your taste buds. This Indian sweet is very popular on the Indian continent.
Made by the curdling of the milk and separating the solid part (chena) by putting the whole curdle milk into the muslin cloth and tying it to get rid of the water.
Then this leftover chena is kneaded and rolled into soft, smooth balls and soaked and cooked into sugar syrup until they become soft, light, spongy and juicy.
You can try this sweet in your kitchen check out this article to know what all things it going to take to create these absolutely delicious Indian sweet recipes.
14. Rasmalai
This Indian sweet is a classical east Indian dessert. These creamy thick discs are soaked into thickened milk. Rasmalai is an Urdu word, Ras means juice and malai means cream.
This popular Indian dessert is made from milk, lemon to curdle milk, sugar, chopped nuts, rose water, saffron and cardamom powder.
You will find these mouth-watering Indian sweets in almost every sweet shop, festival and Indian wedding.
It is an easy Indian sweet and you can make it at home check out this article to know all the steps and procedures to create this delicious Indian sweet.
15. Besan Laddoo
This traditional Indian sweet recipe is so easy to make, and itโs made with gram flour, ghee, and sugar. It is one of the traditional recipes passed on by generations and is made during the time of festive occasions and for Indian dinner parties. These Indian sweets are made with just 3 ingredients and topped with dry fruits and rose petals.
You can easily prepare them at home first, roast the gram flour in the ghee till it is light brown and add granulated sugar in it and mix it properly then add cardamom powder and some rose water and cook it until it takes a crumbly texture.
Then take it out and made round balls when the mixture is warm once done topped them with some nuts and let them freeze.
Your Besan (Gram flour) ladoo and ready to enjoy.
In this blog, I tried to share all the best Indian dessert recipes that are popular and well-known in India. I hope that you love these Indian desserts and would love to try them out.
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