Valentine's Day is a day to celebrate love and romance. It's a day to appreciate and cherish your mate by surprising them with all the love you can muster. The most common way to express love is by giving your partner they desire most. "The way to the heart is through the stomach." Whether you're planning a date or a special Valentine's dinner, these Indian desserts are a must to complete your meal. Traditional Indian desserts are full of aromatic spices and sprinkled with nuts and pistachios or soaked in rose syrup, which will fill your taste buds with the delightful flavors of India. Chocolate desserts are a popular choice for a romantic dinner date, but you don't have to limit yourself to chocolate. Try out these lip-smacking Indian desserts to make your celebrations sweeter.
1. Sweet Gulab Jamun
Who doesn't love donuts dunked in rose sugar coating? Gulab Jamun is internationally popular and can be found on almost every Indian restaurant menu in the world. It is a juicy-soft dessert mainly made with khoya. The khoya are deep-fried and dipped in sugary syrup, usually flavored with saffron and rose water. Enjoy the Gulab jamun warm when they are at their softest and tastiest. A good Gulab jamun will melt on your tongue, revealing its subtle raisin taste and spicy cardamom aroma.
2. Mouth Watering Jalebi's
Jalebi is a popular dish in India. It's a hoop-shaped confection produced by deep-frying flour and then soaking it in a sweet syrup. Iran and Turkey both have their own variants of jalebi. This simple dessert recipe may be found in several old Indian cookbooks dating back to the 15th century. This crispy and crunchy delicacy is served with rabri or curd in Northern India. These mouthwatering sugar-syrup-soaked sweet Jalebis can be served cold or hot, depending on your preference. Rosewater and lemon juice are sometimes added to the syrup.
3. Delicious Rasmalai
Another popular Bengali sweet dish is ras malai. This dish is made of creamy dough made of Indian cottage cheese soaked in thick sweetened condensed milk. Ras means juice, and malai means cream. Everything is produced from scratch: milk is curdled to separate paneer (also known as chenna) and whey, then formed into balls and boiled in sugar syrup before being soaked in milk flavored with exotic spices like saffron, cardamom, and rich almonds.
4. Chocolate Samosa
It's the ideal dessert for chocolate aficionados, with its gooey, lava-like dark and white chocolate filling. The crisp, cinnamon sugar-coated pastry is the ideal finishing touch, adding spice and complexity to the sweet chocolate.
The beauty of Indian desserts is that you don't have to commit to a single flavor profile. As a result, most of these recipes may be made for every occasion by just changing the flavors. Explore the richness of Indian cuisine with Tabla Indian Restaurant and we guarantee you'll never want chocolates for Valentine's Day again.