Deepavali or Diwali, the festival of lights, is a time for sweet beginnings. Also known as the Hindu New Year, the festival is considered to be an extremely auspicious time. This joyous occasion ...

Whether it's a wedding, a religious holiday, or an extravagant birthday, you can count on South Asians to buy a mountain of mithai, or desi sweets, to mark the occasion. Mithai, or 'mithāī', meaning ...

Younger South Asian cooks are riffing on these classics, turning them into cookies, pies and ice cream, and (gasp!) adding salt. By Priya Krishna The brightly hued sweets at a mithai shop — ...

In the ’90s, spice and halal meat were not easy to come by in my hometown in Michigan, so on ambitious days, my mother would skip the drive to Detroit and head to Devon Avenue in West Ridge. The ...

The festive season is the time when most people let loose and enjoy delectable desserts guilt-free. While many prefer to buy them from bakeries, there are others who enjoy making them fresh at home.

In this Indian restaurant staple, patties of the porous fresh cheese sweet called rasgulla float in sweet, condensed milk flavored with cardamom and pistachios. Rasgullas are traditionally made by ...

In the days before Diwali, publications in India offer advice similar to what Americans see before Thanksgiving and Christmas. “Do not hog multiple pieces of mithai and greasy delights,” advises one ...

Indian sweets often arrive looking like they have been dressed for a celebration. A piece of barfi glints softly under a thin ...

Even with substantial losses during festivals like Rakshabandhan and Ganesh Chaturthi this year, and despite a depressed wedding market, the industry is looking at a revenue of ₹65,000 crore in the ...

What does it take to make til chikki exciting again? Could we make it slim as a wafer, one or two millimetres thick instead of the usual six to eight? Could we dip white miso-spiked squares of it ...