Diwali is the festival of lights. It is celebrated with great pomp and show by Indians all around the world. It symbolizes the victory of light over darkness and good over evil. Homes are decked up with lights, flowers and rangoli patterns. There are a plethora of lights from fancy decorative lights to traditional earthen lamps (diyas).
Today I am sharing with you some delicious sweets and snacks for Diwali festival. No celebrations or festivities are complete without sweets and desserts. Indian Diwali Sweets can be easily made at home in advance and stored in the fridge for 2-3 days or even longer. When we say Indian there is so much diversity, every state has its special sweets and desserts. There are an astounding variety of Indian sweets and confectioners in all textures, shapes, and color. Here is a collection of Diwali recipes from this blog.
Ladoos
There are huge variety of ladoos and they differ from region to region. This ghee infused ball-shaped sweets is loved by both young and old. They are often made of either chickpea flour, rice flour,semolina, peanuts, coconut depending on the region.
Rava Ladoo
Made with Semolina/ rava and coconut. It is flavored with ghee and cardamon and is one easiest ladoo recipe.
Besan ladoo
Made with roasted chickpeas flour and nuts. It is laced with flavor of cardamom and ghee.
Bengali Sweet Kachagolla/ Easy Paneer Ladoo
Kachagolla/paneer ladoos is a festive Bengali sweet. It is luxurious milk sweet with a unique melt in the mouth texture. The most important ingredients of paneer ladoo are fresh chena/ or coagulated milk solids and sugar
Rice Ladoos / Ari Unda
Ari Unda is made with rice flour. It is a traditional ladoo of Kerala and is made with roasted rice flour, coconut and jaggery. It is flavored with cumin and cardamom.
Pori unda is made with puffed rice and jaggery, crispy, yummy ladoos
Delicious and easy to make ladoo with pottukadalai/roasted gram/chutney dal. It is flavored with ghee and cardamom
Like to try more ladoo recipe check these Caramel Coconut Ladoo, Rava Khoya ladoo,Sesame Ladoo, Peanut Ladoo and Coconut Ladoo
Kesari and Boli
South Indian favorites Kesari and Boli is a must for every celebration in South India, especially for Diwali. You can find these is sweet shops and bakeries in Kerala.
Boli
Boli is a traditional South Indian sweet and its variations is found in puran poli, bobbatlu etc.It is delicate thin crepes with a sweet lentil filling. It is served with milk payasam/kheer
This soft melt in mouth dessert is much loved and is considered as an auspicious prasadam or a halwa. It is made with semolina and ghee.
Kesari is a popular south India dessert made with semolina. Adding beets gives it a vibrant color and the dessert is flavored with ghee.
Pineapple Sweet Rice/ Rice Kesari Bhath
Kesaribhath is a sweet pudding made with rice pineapple
Burfi- Indian Fudge
Burfii is a delicious fudge-like Indian sweet. Like ladoos there are so many varieties of burfi. It is made with milk, gram flour, lentils,Coconut or any kind of nuts. It is a soft melt in mouth sweet or confectionery. Here are a few burfi recipes.
Milk Burfi
Made with khoya and condensed milk and topped with chopped nuts.
Ghee Mysore Pak
Soft textured gram flour fudge. It is sweet and rich with ghee and hence the name
Thenga Mittai/ Easy Coconut Burfi
Tengai mittai is a traditional sweet made on festive occasions and is pure coconut indulgence. Desserts with coconut have a unique appeal to it, delightful bite with nuttiness and a sweet milky taste.
Carrot Burfi
Made with Carrots and condensed milk. This fudge has an interesting texture.
Rose Coconut Burfi
This nutty and rose flavored fudge is rich with intense flavor of coconut. Perfect for all coconut lovers!
An interesting burfi made with lentils. The chana dal is cook with milk and shaped into a fudge.
Halwa
Halwa is made on every festive occasion. It has an important place in the astounding variety of Indian mittais or sweets confectioners. Halwa making is time consuming, but is an indispensable part of Indian feasts.
Plantain Halwa
Kerala special fruit halwa. This halwa is made with over ripe plantains, rice flour and jaggery. This is very popular in Kerala.
Karah Prasad/ Wheat Flour Halwa
It is made with whole wheat flour/atta, ghee and sugar. It is a rich and tasty halwa that is also served in Gurudwara as prasad for devotees
Thirattipal is rich and flavorful sweet milk halwa,popular in South India. It is made by reducing milk and sugar
Coconut Halwa
This halwa is made with coconut milk and grated coconut. Toasted Coconut is added to give a slight crunch to this halwa. Kerala style halwa
Beetroot Halwa
Very popular and vibrant halwa made with beetroot and milk, ghee and sugar.
Delicious halwa made with coconut milk and jaggery
Like to try more halwa recipes, check Apple Raspberry Halwa, Jack fruit Halwa, Pineapple Halwa, Sooji Jaggery Halwa, Chickoo Coconut Halwa
Gulab jamun
Gulab Jamuns are deep-fried dumplings that are soaked in a sugar syrup laced with rose water.Prepared with solid milk and
flour and then dropped in sugar syrup it gets fluffy, juicy and has a melts in your mouth texture.
Bengali Delicacies Sandesh and Cham Cham
A selection of mithai is incomplete without any kind of Bengali Sweet. Sandesh and Cham Cham are milk-based sweet made with fresh home made paneer.
Sandesh
Milk based sweet made with fresh paneer and sugar and laced with flavor of cardamom
Cham Cham
Another Bengali delicacy is this oval sweet made with fresh paneer.It has a spongy texture usually with stuffing and comes in a variety of vibrant colors.
Mango Peda
Luxurious, rich, flavorful fudge made with khoya and mangoes.
Milk Peda
The richness and flavor of this sweet, soft Indian fudge is truly divine. It is made with milk and Khoya
Jalebi
Jalebi are deep-fried Indian sweets that are soaked in sugar syrup. The fermented batter is commonly made of urad dal, all purpose flour or chickpea flour.
Balushahi
It is like fried and glazed pasty that resembles doughnuts. It is sweet and has a slightly flaky and melt in mouth texture.
Diwali Snacks
Here is a list of Kerala snacks for Diwali
Banana Chips
Deep fried plantain chips is a popular snack in Kerala. Salty with the flavor of coconut oil
Kerala Mixture
Mixture is a crispy and crunchy snack popular in India. It is a snack mix or a blend of crispy fries, nuts,chips,fried lentils and tossed with a spice powder.
Crispy fried maida biscuits, coated with sugar
Butter Biscuit/ Nankattai
Nankattai is a very popular Indian tea time cookie and has the perfect crumbly melt in mouth texture. It is buttery, with the inviting fragrance of cardamon.
Rice Murukku
Instant murukku with the intense flavor of butter. Perfect for festive occasions.
Kaara Biscuit
Bakery style spicy and salty cracker popular in Kerala
Samosa
Ever popular Indian street food with crisp fried pastry dough and spiced potato filling.
Ellu Mittai
Ellu Mittai/ sesame brittle is old fashioned sugar and nuts candy
Potato Bondas
It is a perfect tea time snack and is also served as appetizers during weddings and festive meals
Sukiyan
Sweet balls made with green gram and jaggery,dipped in batter and deep fried.
Unni appam / Sweet Rice Fritters
Unni appam is a cute, fun treat that you cannot stop munching. They are
deep-fried, delightful sweet bites and are a popular delicacy in Kerala.
Kerala style deep fried fitters made with rice and jaggery and with the enticing flavor of ghee and cardamom
Semiya or Vermicelli Payasam/Kheer
Hope you find these recipes interesting. Try them and let me know how it turned out for you. Happy Cooking!
Happy Diwali!
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