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.