The Importance of Indian Sweets for Celebrations

 

The Importance of Indian Sweets for Celebrations

Indians love their food. The variety, tastes and flavours of the delicacies are spread as far and wide as the length and breadth of the country - each corner creating one dish tastier than the other. If you thought Indians only loved and craved super spicy stuff, you couldn’t be more wrong. The list of the sweet dishes prepared by them is just as exhaustive as you may have experienced if you ever had the chance of hiring an Indian Food Catering Services in London.

The Indian methai as they call it is different for different occasions. Ranging from Indian wedding sweets that are very special for the special occasion, these are typically created to mark how special an occasion as a wedding is and also to impress the guests *wink*. Then there are also sweets that come in the category of the Indian celebratory sweets. Every Indian child is well aware of these sweets as they indefinitely mark their presence during any and every celebration. The top of the list of these Indian celebratory sweets is usually the Kaju Katli – a melt in the mouth, sweet delicate, diamond shaped sweet. Kaju literally translates into cashew nut. Therefore, this sweet is made of cashews and sugar, lined with a silver sheet on top and its unique shape is loved by all. Ethnic Indian Wedding Caterers  London swear by this unique and rich sweet dish.

 

The next on the list of the great Indian methai is the Gulab Jamun. If you are a foodie (food lover) and have never had a Gulab Jamun in your life, you have certainly missed the greatest food creations of your lifetime. A Gulab Jamun is not just a sweet dish. It is therapeutic in its yummy-ness. Made from solid milk into round balls and then deep fried to perfection in ghee or oil giving it a deep red or maroon colour. Some people go so far as to stuff these solid milk balls with a number of dry fruits inside before frying them. So that ever bite is the right balance between soft and crunch and the flavours that just explode in your mouth. These deep fried balls are then soaked in sugar syrup laced with rose water, cardamom and saffron (kesar) till they are soft and sweet to their very core.