Indian Sweets

Indian Sweets posts cover the wide mithai tradition that runs through the regions and the religious calendar. Articles look at the classic milk-based sweets like rasgulla, gulab jamun, kheer and rasmalai, the ghee-laden ones like ladoos in their many regional versions, the south Indian payasam, Mysore pak and the cashew-rich kaju katli, the rolled bengali sandesh, the dry fruit sweets like soan papdi and the Diwali season favourites kaju barfi and besan ladoo. There are also notes on the role of mithai in religious offerings, on the modern sugar-free movement and on the long shelf life of dry sweets.