Desserts
Gulab Jamun
Milk-solid dumplings fried to a deep bronze and steeped in cardamom-rose syrup until they double in size and turn to…
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Indian dessert recipes
27 Indian dessert recipes, in a suggested order.
These are the 27 Indian recipes filed under desserts: 27 of the 583 desserts on the site, and 27 of its 290 Indian recipes. Of these, 3 are ready in 30 minutes or less, start to finish; the quickest are Coconut Ladoo (20 min), Sheera (20 min) and Rava Kesari (25 min). For 18, the method times a wait such as rising, chilling or marinating, and the time at the top of the recipe includes it. By difficulty: 10 easy, 12 medium and 5 hard.
As written, 27 are vegetarian, 1 vegan, 15 gluten-free and 1 dairy-free.
Indian desserts
Desserts
Jalebi
Fermented batter piped in spirals into hot ghee and dunked straight into warm saffron syrup, so the crisp coils fill…
Desserts
Rice Kheer
Rice slowly simmered in milk until it thickens and takes on a faint caramel colour, scented with cardamom and…
Desserts
Aam Ras
Ripe mango pulp whisked smooth with milk, sugar and cardamom, served chilled as a dessert or alongside puri.
Desserts
Basundi
Milk simmered until it reduces to about two thirds, sweetened and flavoured with cardamom, nutmeg and saffron…
Desserts
Bengali Sandesh
Soft, fudgy Bengali sweets made from fresh curdled milk, kneaded with sugar, cooked briefly and shaped into small…
Desserts
Besan Ladoo
Gram flour roasted slowly in ghee until it smells of biscuits, then rolled into balls with sugar. Forty minutes…
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Coconut Ladoo
Soft balls of desiccated coconut and condensed milk, cooked briefly with cardamom and rolled in more coconut.
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Falooda
Rose syrup, soaked basil seeds, vermicelli, milk and ice cream layered in a tall glass. Half drink and half pudding.
Desserts
Gajar ka Halwa
Grated carrot cooked down in milk and ghee until it is dark, glossy and barely a vegetable any more. North India's…
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Kaju Katli
Cashews ground to a paste, cooked with sugar and rolled into diamonds. Four ingredients and no room for error.
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Kulfi
Milk boiled down by half and frozen hard in moulds. Denser than ice cream because it is never churned.
Desserts
Malpua
Small fried pancakes of flour and reduced milk, soaked in cardamom syrup. Crisp at the edge, soft in the middle.
Desserts
Milk Barfi
Soft, fudge-like squares of milk powder, milk, sugar and ghee flavoured with cardamom and topped with pistachios.
Desserts
Mishti Doi
Bengal's sweet yoghurt: milk boiled down, sweetened with caramel and set overnight into a thick, creamy…
Desserts
Modak
Steamed rice flour dumplings pleated into a crown shape, filled with sweet coconut and jaggery and served with ghee.
Desserts
Moong Dal Halwa
Ground yellow moong dal slowly roasted in ghee until deep gold, then cooked with milk and sugar syrup into a rich…
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Motichoor Ladoo
Tiny pearls of fried gram flour batter soaked in saffron sugar syrup and shaped into soft, orange ladoo.
Desserts
Mysore Pak
Gram flour cooked with ghee and sugar until it sets porous and melts on contact. Forty-five minutes, and the pour is…
Desserts
Puran Poli
Soft flatbreads stuffed with a sweet filling of cooked chana dal, jaggery, cardamom and nutmeg, cooked on a griddle…
Desserts
Rabri
Milk simmered for an hour until it reduces to a thick, creamy layer, sweetened and flavoured with cardamom, saffron…
Desserts
Ras Malai
Discs of fresh cheese poached, squeezed and soaked in cardamom and saffron milk. The dessert Bengali sweet shops are…
Desserts
Rasgulla
Balls of fresh cheese boiled in thin syrup until they double and turn spongy. Bengal's sweet, and the texture is…
Desserts
Rava Kesari
A soft, golden pudding of roasted semolina cooked with ghee, sugar and saffron, studded with cashews and raisins.
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Sheera
A soft Indian semolina pudding roasted in ghee, cooked in milk and flavoured with cardamom, sugar and sultanas.
Desserts
Shrikhand
Yoghurt hung until it is thick as cream cheese, then beaten with sugar, saffron and cardamom. Fifteen minutes of…
Desserts
Tender Coconut Pudding
A chilled, softly set pudding of coconut water, coconut milk and tender coconut flesh, thickened with agar-agar.