10 Sumptuous Sweets For Dusshera

Friday, October 11, 2013, 18:09 [IST]

The most celebrated festival of the year is just round the corner. Dusshera is celebrated with great joy and fervour throughout the country. Dusshera is celebrated on the tenth day after Navratri. It is the celebration of the triumph of the good over the evil. After a long fast of nine days, Dusshera is the time to feast and to enjoy all kinds of special foods.

Dusshera or Vijaya Dashami is generally celebrated by preparing different kinds of sweets. People visit each other's house on this day and the guests expect to be served with various kinds of sweets. People generally buy these sweets from the market. But won't it be special if you can prepare these sweet delights at home and serve the guests? Boldsky brings you this awesome collection of sweet recipes to try out this festive season.

Here are the 10 sumptuous sweets that you can try out on Dusshera. Check them out.

Milkmade Kheer

Milkmade kheer is an innovative Navratri sweet dish. Normally kheer recipes are cumbersome and involve a lot of effort. Milkmade kheer is an Indian dessert recipe that is made using canned dairy whitener Milkmade instead of traditional sweeteners like jaggery.

Coconut Laddoo

Coconut Laddoo is one of the most loved sweets of Dusshera. This sweet recipe is made of grated coconut and sugar. However you can also substitute sugar with jaggery and prepare this sweet at home.

Rabri

Rabri is an ideal recipe for this Dusshera. The most special part of this Indian sweets recipe is that its ingredients are very simple. This rabri recipe derives its subtle flavours from a food incense named kewra water. You just have to boil and reduce the milk to make rabri.

Peanut Barfi

Peanut Barfi is a unique and delicious sweet to try out on Dusshera. Peanuts are healthy legumes that contain carbohydrates in high amounts. The peanut burfi recipe is made of very less ingredients and is extremely tasty.

Malai Chum Chum

Chum chum is a spongy Indian sweet dish. The chum chum or chom chom is made with homemade cheese or paneer. It is a popular Bengali sweet dish that can be made in different colours. Ideally, chum chum is a plain white coloured sweet that is dipped in sugar syrup. However, saffron is added to get the brown coloured chum chum.

Mango Rasgulla

Also known as Kamala Bhog, mango rasgullas can bring a new flavour on the dessert plate. As it is off season, many sweet shops add mango essence and flavour to prepare mango rasgullas.

Kesar Pista Kheer

The ingredients of this kheer recipe are very simple. The main ingredients that adds to the fine blend of flavours in this Indian dessert are kesar (saffron) and pista (pistachios). What makes this kheer recipe ideal for all occasions is that it can be prepared very easily.

Rasmalai

Rasmalai is a common Indian dessert and is an important recipe in many Indian festivals and wedding seasons. This dessert is very creamy and just melts in your mouth.

Channar Payesh

Channar payesh literally translates from Bengali into cottage cheese kheer. It is a kheer recipe made out of cottage cheese known as 'channa' in Bengali and 'paneer' in Hindi. The ingredients definitely give indications of a mouthwatering treat of creamy dessert for Dusshera.

Malpua

Malpuas are rich flavored, deep fried pancakes which are soaked in saffron syrup. Although malpuas are generally had with rabdi or malai, it is also savored with a scoop of vanilla ice cream.

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