Desserts

Milk SweetsMost Indian sweets as made of milk, cottage cheese and sugar syrup. Sweet traditions in Bengal, Bikaner and Delhi are famous throughout the country. In South India, many sweets & savouries are made of rice flour and coconut. Chaats

Paav bhaji is a passion in Bombay and Gujarat, where a cauldron of simmering vegetables are served with a bun. Bhelpuri, a puffed rice snack from Bombay and Chaat & Samosas in Delhi are cherished edibles.

Betel leaf being rolled into a Paan

Paan

A sumptuous meal is rounded off with the after-dinner paan or betel leaf. A paan leaf is first coated with lime paste and then rolled with an assortment of digestive spices like aniseed, cloves, arecanut and cardamom. Mint & sugar coated saunf or aniseed, silver coated cardamom, sugar coated betel nuts are popularly considered as digestive spices.


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