It is a sweet dish after having main course. Many Indian desserts are fried food made with sugar, milk or condensed milk.
Desserts are based on flavoured milk with almonds, pista, cardamom, nutmeg, black pepper with gold or sliver leaf and vary from region to region in different parts of the states.
Below are the examples of Desserts :
Kheer – Rice pudding made from rice, sugar, milk, ghee, dry fruits
Ras Malai – Reduced milk, pista
Sheera – semolina, ghee, nuts, milk
Rabri – sweet condensed milk based dish made by boiling the milk on low heat for a long time until it becomes dense and changes its colour to pinkish. Sugar, spices and nuts are added for flavour. It is usually chilled and served as dessert.
Peda – Condensed milk, sugar
Moong halwa – Milk, moong dal, sugar, ghee, dry fruits
Carrot halwa – milk, grated carrot, sugar, ghee, dry fruits
Gulab Jamun – flour, milk, ghee, dipped in sugar syrup
Almond Halwa – milk, almonds, ghee, sugar
Agra Petha – Made from white pumpkin, sugar, lime, alum powder
Balushahi – Maida flour, yogurt, oil, sugar
Basen laddu – rolling in round shape with hands the mixture of Basen (gram flour), ghee, sugar
Jalebi – a dough fried in coil shape, dipped in sugar syrup often taken with milk, tea, yogurt, lassi
Kaju Katli – cashew paste, ghee, sugar
Bundi – Sugar syrup based round balls made of gram flour or basen flour