Traditional Indian Sweet for Wedding Catering

After a wholesome meal at party, what your heart most craves is for desserts. Desserts are everyone’s favorite and some would say the most important part of the meal. We usually refer to desserts anything sweet from ice cream, cakes & pastries to traditional Indian desserts consisting of variations of flavors, textures and appearances. Now a day, fruits are also considered as desserts because of their naturally occurring sweetness. Hence, on many occasion you might have enjoyed fruits as desserts.

Wedding menu around the world, especially in India cannot be concluded without sweets. Even the entire menu is designed depending on the variety of desserts the caterers are going to serve. In India, sweet equates to god news and thus sweet items have a royal place in the meal. Sweets hold a special significance in any marriage. Serving these desserts differs from state to state. In north India, sweet is served at the end of the meal. On the other hand in south India, sweets signify good beginning hence served at the beginning of meal.

Most Indian sweets are flavored with almonds and pistachios whilst they are spiced with unusual flavors such as cardamom, nutmeg, cloves and black pepper. They are finally decorated with nuts or with gold or silver leaf, which gives the “mithai” a unique look.

Without sweets there is no occasion complete even in daily life, it’s hard to stay away from these amazing deserts. So get ready to experience the sweetest and amazing journey of these desserts so you'll know what to order and can indulge to your heart and stomach's content.

Gulab Jamun:

The soft & syrupy sugar balls top its way to the marriage sweet list. The super sweet, sticky, and wickedly irresistible dessert is often served hot, as an after-dinner dish, and topped with vanilla or strawberry ice cream. Besides India, its popularity has spread to other Asian countries.

Barfi:

The diamond shaped delights are milk based desserts prepared with additional flavors including kesar or saffron, chocolate, carrot, pista, coconut, and peanut. It is a combinational sweet having an edible silver foil as its decoration.

Peda:

The traditional Indian sweet is considered as a go along sweet for important religious functions. One can easily relate to it because for every happy occasion peda is the common sweet associated!

Ras Malai & Ras Gulla:

The spongy and creamy delights come in oval shape. Ras malai and Ras Gulla’s balls are similar, although their base varies. For ras malai, it is sweetened condensed milk and in ras gulla it is plain sugar syrup flavored with rose essence.

Jalebi:

The piping hot Jalebies are bliss who adore this sweet like dear. The preparation itself makes your mouth water. You can easily find freshly sizzling at street food stalls across the country. In wedding events, it can be served as combinational sweet with Chilled Rabdi or vanilla ice-cream.

Ladoo:

There are many different recipes for this ball-shaped festive sweet that's a staple at any special occasion. The list is endless, starting with one of the best Indian festive dessert-boondi ka laddo, motichur laddo, besan laddo, coconut, semolina or rava laddo, oatmeal ladoo and even the one with edible gum.

Kulfi:

An Indian chilled version of ice-cream, kulfi is the frozen dessert made by evaporating milk. The taste would vary by the flavor you choose like mango, saffron, pistachio, and cardamom, though of late it is available in many varieties like apple, avocado, pistachio, orange, peanut, strawberry.

Balushahi:

The shahi doughnut is famous for its crunchy outer crust and an inner filling of sweet khoya.  It is a dish that is famously served in the weddings.

So which one is your favorite? With such a long list of sweets to discover, let Cater Ninja add some of these to your weddings and see how your guests relish in devouring them.