Dessert

     India is a country of sweets, and Indians, if they can afford, would like to have sweets with almost every meal. Each region has its own specialties. Basically, various regional recipes are different forms of rice puddings, milk puddings, vegetables & fruits dipped in sweet syrup. Besides, there are varieties of milk -based Barfis and pastries. Combinations of all these offer hundreds of varieties. These are decorated with raisins, almonds, pistachio and the like.

     Some other popular Indian sweets are :-
Kheer, Halwa (pudding), Rasgulla (spongy cheese balls, dipped in sugar syrup), Gulabjamun, Rasmalai, Sandesh and many more. Different flavours of Ice creams can be availed of in any part of the country. Well known brands of ice-creams are Kwality, Gaylord, Vadilal and Dollops. 'Kulfi' is the Indian version of Ice-cream.

     Most Indian sweets are made by boiling down milk to remove the moisture. It is called khoa. Adding butter, sugar and many other flavours, these are turned into barfi, malai, kheer, rasgulla and sandesh.