Agra, India
Agra petha
आगरा पेठा
Ash gourd is cut, simmered in sugar syrup, and set into translucent pieces in Agra's famed confection.
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Barfi
बर्फी
A dense Indian milk fudge, often flavoured with cardamom or pistachio and cut into squares.
India
Chikki
चिक्की
Peanuts or other nuts are set in hot jaggery syrup and cut into brittle bars in western India.
India
Churma
चूरमा
A sweet Rajasthani dish of crushed baati or wheat flour mixed with ghee and jaggery or sugar. Served with dal baati.
India
Gajak
गजक
Sesame or peanuts are bound with jaggery, rolled thin, and set into a brittle winter sweet of North India.
India
Gulab Jamun
गुलाब जामुन
Milk-solid dough is fried into soft brown balls and soaked in cardamom-scented sugar syrup.
India
Jalebi
जलेबी
Crisp, coiled fritters soaked in saffron syrup until glistening.
India
Kaju katli
काजू कतली
Cashew fudge cut into diamond shapes, a festive Indian sweet.
India
Kalakand
कलाकंद
Fresh milk cheese is cooked with sugar until grainy and set into soft squares in North Indian sweet shops.
India
Laddu
लड्डू
Round sweets of gram flour, ghee and sugar, offered at every celebration.
India
Malai Laddu
ملائی لڈو
Balls of thickened milk solids sweetened with sugar and cardamom, softer and wetter than a gram-flour laddu.
Afghanistan
Malida
ملیده
Toasted flour, ghee, sugar, and nuts are worked into a crumbly Afghan sweet called Malida.
Maharashtra, India
Modak
मोदक
Rice-flour dough encloses a coconut and jaggery filling, then is steamed or fried into a pleated sweet.
Gujarat, India
Mohanthal
મોહનથાળ
Gram flour is slow-roasted with ghee, sugar, and cardamom, then set into Gujarati fudge squares.
Mysuru, India
Mysore pak
ಮೈಸೂರು ಪಾಕ್
A Mysore sweet of gram flour, ghee and sugar, dense and porous.
India
Panjiri
پنجیری
Wholemeal flour roasted in ghee with sugar, gum arabic, melon seeds and nuts, eaten by the spoonful in winter and after childbirth.
West Bengal, Bangladesh
Pantua
পান্তুয়া
Chhena and semolina balls deep-fried to a dark brown and then steeped in syrup — the Bengali forerunner of gulab jamun.
India
Peda
पेड़ा
Reduced milk solids are kneaded with sugar and cardamom into soft Indian milk fudge rounds.
Punjab, India
Pinni
ਪਿੰਨੀ
Whole wheat flour, ghee, nuts, and jaggery are cooked into dense Punjabi winter balls or squares.
Andhra Pradesh, India
Pootharekulu
పూతరేకులు
Paper-thin rice starch sheets are layered with ghee and sugar into Andhra's delicate sweet.
West Bengal, Bangladesh
Rasgulla
রসগোল্লা
Spongy balls of chhana soaked in light sugar syrup.
West Bengal, Bangladesh
Sandesh
সন্দেশ
Fresh chhena worked with sugar over low heat and pressed into moulds — the driest and most delicate of the Bengali milk sweets.
India
Sohan Papdi
सोन पापड़ी
A flaky, layered north Indian sweet of gram flour and sugar, brittle and honeycombed.
India
Sutarfeni
સૂતરફેણી
Fine strands of flour are cooked with ghee and sugar into a delicate Gujarati sweet finished with nuts.