Sweet
Apple Halwa
Grated apple cooked down with milk, wheat flour, sugar, and ghee into a rich, fragrant halwa.
Boondi
Tiny fried gram-flour pearls soaked in sugar syrup, a classic festive sweet.
Bread Halwa
Bread pieces fried in ghee with cashews and sugar, transformed into a quick, rich halwa.
Chinese Sooce (Cashew-Date Bars)
A maida batter studded with chopped cashews and dates, baked, sliced into bars, and dusted with icing sugar.
Pan Cake
Whisked eggs mixed with maida and sugar, cooked thin and round like a dosa in ghee, for a simple sweet pancake.
Sago Payasam
Sago pearls simmered with jaggery and coconut milk, garnished with ghee-fried cashews and cardamom.
Jilebi
Fermented urad dal and rice batter piped into hot oil in golden swirls, then soaked in sugar syrup.
Kuzhai Puttu (Tube Puttu)
Idiyappam-style rice flour layered with grated coconut and sugar inside a puttu tube and steamed into a sweet puttu.
Maida Cake
Maida dough sweetened with sugar and egg, rolled out, cut into diamond shapes, and deep-fried until golden.
Milk Basundi
Milk slowly simmered and reduced, with the cream that forms on top folded back in repeatedly, then sweetened and flavoured with cashews, saffron, and cardamom into a thick milk dessert.
Mysore Pak
Gram flour cooked into a sugar-ghee syrup until it rises and sets, the classic melt-in-the-mouth Mysore Pak.
Milk Kova
Milk slow-simmered down to a thick mass with sugar and ghee, a rich and simple milk sweet.
Semolina Barfi
Roasted semolina cooked with milk, sugar, and ghee to a firm barfi consistency, then cut into pieces.
Semolina Kesari
Roasted semolina cooked into a soft, glossy, saffron-hued sweet, finished with ghee-fried cashews and cardamom.
Seena Laddu
Roasted gram flour mixed with fried coconut, cashews, and sugar, shaped into fragrant laddus while still warm.
Vermicelli Kesari
Roasted vermicelli cooked with sugar and ghee into a bright kesari, poured onto a tray and cut into pieces once set.
Suchiyam
Sweet jaggery-and-coconut dal balls dipped in a savory rice batter and deep-fried, a distinctive sweet-and-crisp treat.
Sweet Appam
Rice and urad dal ground with jaggery and cardamom, fermented, and cooked into a naturally sweet appam.