Satisfy your sweet cravings with 10 best Diwali sweets from across India

Any Diwali celebration is incomplete without the presence of Kaju katli. The barfis are made out of cashews and ghee. You barely have three ingredients for this Diwali dish but making it is quite fun. It will only take you about 20 minutes to make the barfis, but the praises that follow would be a lifetime! Kaju katlis are also used as the best giveaway desserts when celebrating Diwali. Friends and families always treat each other with boxes of Kaju kaltis when celebrating Diwali.

Goan Nevri or popularly known as karanji in Maharashtra and Gujiya in Uttar Pradesh is a slight alteration which has a Konkan touch to it. The recipe for the traditional Diwali dish is very similar to the other delicacies with stuffed grated coconut. It makes for quite an interesting sweet concoction that you might want to place on your serving table before greeting your guests on Diwali.

The relishing taste of badaam halwa and even barfis make for one of the best Diwali desserts that you can offer to your guests. Thanks to its lovely amalgam of dry fruits and flavours, it does stand tall as one of the top Diwali desserts that you might want to dig into! The ingredients of the traditional Diwali dish include almonds, poppy seeds, milk and khoya. The same ingredients can be used to make the barfis too with a slight tweak in the method of cooking. Depending on how you serve the delicacy, you can serve it as a halwa or as barfis. Needless to say, you will ask for more.

Gujiya is a very famous traditional Diwali dish that is made by every household during the festive season. The sweet deep-fried dumpling is a very interesting dessert that has a certain edge to it. The dish is usually served when guests come over during Diwali to greet the host. With ingredients for the Diwali dish being as simple as maida, wheat flour, maida, dry fruits and ghee, making the dessert is a fun endeavour. However, add a bit of chocolate syrup to the whole deal, and it sure turns into quite an enticing dish! You might have to make the dessert, but the process would excite you.

Need we even talk about how fantastic one piece of shahi tukda does to your taste buds? The Mughlai dessert has been around us for some time now and has even managed to become of the favourite dishes for sweet tooths out there! The magic of blending slices of bread soaked in condensed milk and dry fruits and nuts for decoration makes for an exquisite Diwali dish. To get the best shahi tukda in the country, you probably might want to visit the city of Nawabs, Lucknow. They do have the best range of shahi tukdas from the basic ones to the flavourful ones. It is quite the Diwali dish that can be added to your dessert list this year.

Rava is not just the perfect base for the breakfast treat that is upma but also makes for a great ingredient to make the Diwali dish, Rava kheer! The recipe to make the traditional Diwali delicacy is quite easy as it only requires you to add some milk, dry fruits and sooji (Rava). Rava kheer is certainly one of the best ways to round up a Diwali luncheon with family. The traditional Diwali dish comes off as the perfect dessert that would go down well with your system as it has the right amount of sweet and savoury that one seeks.

Bring in a little Bengali influence to your Diwali luncheon by adding Patishapta as the dessert! The recipe of the traditional Diwali dish patishapta is interesting as it includes making crepes out of rice flour, maida and a tasty blend of coconut-jaggery filling. For this dish, you will need rice flour, maida, sooji as well as coconut and jaggery interspersed to add some lovely flavours to the Diwali dish. If you have been checking for some fun recipes this Diwali, you could try out this traditional Bengali dish for Diwali and give your family something different and delicious.

A favourite of the Maharashtrians that they make during Diwali is the coconut til ladoos. In fact, the traditional Diwali dessert is perfectly easy to make and is delicious. All you need to make the savoury traditional Diwali sweet dish is to get together coconut, sesame seeds and dates. The ladoos might get a little hard, so consuming it could give you a slight toothache, but it would be worth it! The recipe for the Diwali dish is quite easy and doable, and you can make it yourself without having to fret over it.

Kheer, in general, is the best Indian dessert that one can ask for during Diwali. The perfect dish with its phenomenal flavours and the sweet scent does validate for a fabulous Diwali dish that you simply cannot resist. For chawal ki kheer, you would need just some exquisite basmati rice with whole milk and sugar. The dish is super easy to make and one of the best traditional Diwali dishes that you can make. The rice pudding can further be enhanced with an amazing blend of dry fruits such as almonds and pistachios. As for the flavour, you might want to sprinkle some green cardamom and saffron. This would certainly bring about the alluring taste that you wish for when choosing a Diwali delicacy.

All you need are desi ghee, sugar and gram flour to make yourself some of the best treats as brought forth from the South of India! Mysore Pak is a delicacy that originated in the Mysore Palace and has since managed to make quite a name for itself in the dessert segment of India. The sweet delectable is a treat that would certainly go down well right after an illustrious Diwali meal. The exquisite blend of sweet flavours would give you a sugar rush by the end of all the Diwali dishes you devour.

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