Indian sweets

Delicacies from India are hard to call light, since most of them consist of a lot of sugar or deep-fried, and therefore suitable for those who decided to take a break from a diet and eat sweets from the heart.

Recipe for Indian sweets "Lada"

Indian fret is something like a truffle, which is made from a mixture of chickpeas, melted butter and sugar with nuts and spices. This dessert is an ideal and simple beginning to get acquainted with authentic oriental sweets.

Ingredients:

• chickpea flour 420 g;
• ghee oil (or ordinary butter) - 240 g;
• sugar - 340 g;
• on a handful of almonds and cashew nuts;
• pinch of saffron (optional);
• Ground cardamom - 1 ½ tsp.

Preparation

1. Melt butter or ghee in a large frying pan. To the melted oil, pour the chickpea flour and fry for another 5-6 minutes until you hear a characteristic nutty flavor.
2. Add crushed nuts and saffron to flour paste, continue cooking for another 4-5 minutes, until the mixture changes color to a darker one.
3. At the very end of the preparation, sprinkle a lot of ground cardamom and sweeten with sugar.
4. Cooling the mass to a comfortable temperature, start dividing it into portions and rolling in balls the size of a ping-pong ball.

Traditional sweetness of Indian cuisine "Burfi"

In terms of ingredients, the recipe for burfi is almost identical to the recipe for the fret, but the cooking technique, and at the same time the final taste of the dish, is strikingly different.

Ingredients:

• flour - 125 g;
• sugar - 320 g;
• butter (melted) - 120 ml;
• water 120 ml;
• handful of almonds.

Preparation

1. After melting the butter, pour the flour into it and fry until the mass is sufficiently dense and plastic.
2. Mix the water with the sugar and cook the syrup until the sample is fine.
3. When the desired density is reached, mix the syrup with the paste of flour and pour the pieces of almonds.
4. At this stage, to the mass can be added to taste any spices, flavors and food colorings.
5. Wait until the full congealing of delicacies, divide into portions and can decorate, as your heart desires: sprinkle with coconut, nuts or leave in this form.

How to cook Indian sweets "Jalebi"

Another traditional Indian sweetness is fried deep-fried jalebi sticks, which are prepared from a mixture of wheat and chickpea flour and soaked in syrup.

Ingredients:

• wheat flour - 1 item;
• butter - 35 g;
• yogurt - 165 ml;
• chickpea flour - 55 g;
• water;
• oil for deep-frying;
• sugar syrup .

Preparation

1. Mix the wheat water with yogurt, melted butter, a pinch of salt and chickpea flour.
2. Begin by adding portions of cold water to the mixture until you get a fairly thick dough, draining off the ribbons while raising the spoon.
3. Pour the dough into a bottle with a narrow nose or a pastry bag with the smallest nozzle.
4. Preheat the deep-frying oil and begin to dough into it in the form of a spiral. Fry the spirals to a pronounced golden color, and then water with a simple sugar syrup.

Traditional Indian dessert "Pala undrallu"

This mysterious dessert is rice balls cooked in sweetened milk. This traditional Indian delicacy is prepared in honor of big holidays.

Ingredients:

For the test:

• rice flour - ½ item;
• water 230 ml;
• a pinch of salt;
• ghee oil - 10 g.

For milk:

• milk - 330 ml;
• sugar - 75 g;
• pinch of ground cardamom;
• coconut chips - 15 g.

Preparation

1. Bring salted water to a boil and mix it with butter. When the water boils, pour rice flour to it and, stirring, bring to a pasty consistency.
2. Paste of rice flour cool, roll into balls and leave under a damp towel, so that the surface does not become airy.
3. Mix the milk with sugar and cardamom, add coconut chips. Leave the rice balls and cook for about 5 minutes.