SWEETS IN DIFFERENT COLORS :

POPULAR PAKISTANI SWEETS (Pakistani Methai)

Popular Pakistani Sweets (Pakistani Methai) – There is a variety of popular Pakistani traditional sweets, without them a celebration is incomplete. If there is a weeding to be announced or a happy occasion of a new birth,home or office, sweets are bought from the nearest shop and send off to friends , family and neighbours. Pakistani sweets are mainly milk and sugar based. The most famous of all are “Jalebi” orange, crispy delicious goodness that are a favourite especially in Ramadan. Most of the sweets are enjoyed cold and they taste best in their freshest forms. In Pakistan, no celebration and festivals is complete without any one of the following traditional sweets:

BURFI

                 Burfi is a sweet of every celebration and festival. It is a simply milk and sugar, cooked until it solidifies. Then it is cooled and cut in to desired shapes. Burfi varies in colours according to its type. Its texture is soft and velvety. Burfi is the most popular and basic form of Pakistani sweet. And it is often made of different flavourful ingredients like gram , coconut , pistachios, walnuts, cashews, almonds, saffron and some new types are chocolate and carrot burfi.

GULAB JAMAN       

                                  Gulab Jaman is the star of Pakistani weddings event “Mehndi”. Gulab Jaman is a popular traditional sweet. It is a made of milk solids mainly khoya and flour, formed into dough and then shaped into balls, they are then deep fried and moved to cardamom, kewra and saffron frangranced sugar syrup. Gulab Jaman are soft and velvety and dark brown to medium brown in colours. They taste best when they are fresh and hot, but they are mostly enjoyed in cold. Gulab Jaman are simply everyone’s favourite and one of my favourite sweet is Gulab Jaman.

JALEBI

               Jalebi is a sweet of Ramadan. It came to subcontinent from Iran. Jalebi is made of all-purpose flour, rice flour and curd. Jalebi is made by deep-frying flour in a circular (coil-like) shape and then dipping in sugar syrup. Jalebi is crispy and chewy and orange in colours. It taste best when it fresh and hot. Jalebi desert is also very popular in Pakistan. It is made by adding Jalebi to hot milk and left to soak in milk and soften up. This is usually enjoyed as breakfast and a cup of tea.

LADDU

                 Laddu is a sweet of new child’s birth. It is said that, laddu is originated from Gujrat. The basic laddu is made of gram flour, sugar and ghee , mixed well and formed into the balls. There is a variety of this sweets available in shop like moti chor laddu, coconut laddo, almond laddu, malai laddu etc.

BALUSHAHI

                            Balushahi , the sweet of religious gatherings. It is made of all purpose flour, baking powder, ghee and warm milk. Balushahi is crispy and air texture and orange like in colours.

RASGULLA

 Rasgulla is originally a popular sweet of Orissa, It is so delicious that its popularity spread to Bengal and nowalso known as a sweet of Subcontinents. Rasgulla’s are enjoyed cold. Rasgulla is sometimes flavoured by inserting a single nut of choice in them or lightly flavouring  the sugar syrup.  Rasgulla  when cooked in creamy thick milk makes the desert ras malai.