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Kheer simple dessert recipes indian

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Kheer simple dessert recipes indian
simple dessert recipes indian A creamy Indian rice pudding laced with cardamom, kheer is often prepared with sliced blanched almonds and raisins.

It is commonly enhanced with saffron for very festive occasions such as Diwali or weddings.

Ancient Sanskrit literature from India mention feasts and offerings of mithas (sweet).

One of the more complete surviving texts, with extensive description of sweets and how to prepare them is the Mānasollāsa (Sanskrit:
; meaning in Sanskrit, the delight of an idea, or delight of mind and senses.

This ancient encyclopedia on food, music and other Indian arts is also known as the Abhilaṣitārtha Cintāmaṇi (the magical stone that fulfils desires).

Mānasollāsa was composed about 1130 AD, by the Hindu King Somesvara III.
The document describes meals that include a rice pudding which are called payasam (Sanskrit:
are in modern Indian languages is called kheer.
The document mentions seven kinds of rice.

Mānasollāsa also describes recipes for golamu as a donut from wheat flour and scented with cardamom, gharikas as a fried cake from black gram flour and sugar syrup, chhana as a fresh cheese and rice flour fritter soaked in sugar syrup that the document suggests should be prepared from strained curdled milk mixed with buttermilk, and many others.

Mānasollāsa mentions numerous milk-derived sweets, along with describing the 11th century art of producing milk solids, condensed milk and methods for souring milk to produce sweets.

The origin of sweets in Indian subcontinent has been traced to at least 500 BC, where records suggest both raw sugar (gur, vellam, jaggery) as well as refined sugar (sarkara) were being produced.

By 300 BC, kingdom officials in India were including five kinds of sugar in official documents. By the Gupta dynasty era (300–500 AD), sugar was being made not only from sugar cane, but other plant sources such as palm.

Sugar-based foods were also included in temple offerings, as bhoga for the deities, which after the prayers became Prasād for devotees, the poor or visitors to the temple.