Top 10 Indian Sweets / भारत की मिठाई

 

What are the top 10 Indian states and their popular sweet dishes?

Here are the top 10 Indian states and some of their popular sweet dishes:

West Bengal:

Rasgulla: Soft cottage cheese balls soaked in sugar syrup.

Sandesh: Sweetened cottage cheese flavored with various ingredients like saffron, cardamom, and pistachios.

Maharashtra:

Modak: Steamed dumplings filled with sweet coconut and jaggery.

Puran Poli: Sweet flatbread filled with a mixture of jaggery and lentils.

Gujarat:

Mohanthal: Fudge-like sweet made from chickpea flour, ghee, and sugar.

Shrikhand: Sweetened strained yogurt flavored with saffron, cardamom, and nuts.

Rajasthan:

Ghevar: Deep-fried sweet disc-shaped cake made from flour and soaked in sugar syrup.

Mawa Kachori: Deep-fried pastry filled with a sweetened mixture of mawa (milk solids), nuts, and cardamom.

Tamil Nadu:

Mysore Pak: Rich and dense sweet made from ghee, sugar, and gram flour.

Pongal: Sweet rice dish cooked with jaggery, milk, and flavored with cardamom and nuts.

Punjab:

Gulab Jamun: Deep-fried milk dumplings soaked in rose-flavored sugar syrup.

Phirni: Creamy rice pudding flavored with saffron, cardamom, and garnished with nuts.

Uttar Pradesh:

Petha: Soft translucent candy made from ash gourd and sugar syrup.

Balushahi: Deep-fried flaky pastry sweetened with sugar syrup.

Kerala:

Payasam: Sweet milk-based dessert made with rice, vermicelli, or lentils, flavored with cardamom and garnished with nuts.

Unniyappam: Small, deep-fried dumplings made from rice, jaggery, banana, and coconut.

Karnataka:

Mysore Pak: Similar to the Tamil Nadu version, it is a dense and sweet fudge made from ghee, sugar, and gram flour.

Obbattu (Holige): Sweet flatbread filled with a mixture of jaggery and lentils.

Assam:

Pitha: Rice flour pancakes filled with sweet coconut or sesame and jaggery stuffing.

Narikol Pitha: Coconut-stuffed rice flour dumplings, often deep-fried and dipped in sugar syrup.

Please note that these are just a few examples of popular sweet dishes from each state, and there are many more delicious sweets found across India. The culinary traditions in India are incredibly diverse, and each state has its own unique sweets and flavors.