Indian Traditional Sweets JSP Final
Indian Traditional Sweets JSP Final
Indian Traditional Sweets JSP Final
Dairy based
Cereal & Pulses based
Fruit based
DAIRY BASED SWEETS
Milk is concentrated to make khoa
Khoa is then mixed with sugar and other ingredients to
make different types of peda, burfi etc.
Milk (mostly cow’s) may also be fermented to produce acid
and that would coagulate it to make curd
Acid may be added with heat to expedite process
Curd could be hung to remove whey to prepare chhanna
This may be used to make Bengali mithai like ras gulla
Panneer is prepared by acid coagulation with heat and
mostly buffalo milk is used
CEREAL & PULSE BASED SWEETS
Rice, wheat, rajgeera, bengal gram, peanut in
different forms including flour, flakes, grits etc.
may be mixed with sugar or jaggery syrup and
concentrated
Most commonly laddoos are made but many
other sweets like halwa, jalebi, chikki etc. are
also made
FRUITS & VEGETABLES
Mango, guava, banana
Carrot, Bottle gourd
Healthier sweets
NEWER FLAVOURS & VARIATIONS
People like chocolate
Some have developed chocolate shrikhand, burfi & peda
Mango shrikhand is popular
People are getting used to fusion
Addition of fruits, nuts, spices, herbs, mixing ingredients
creates variation in flavours
Addition of other ingredients will change texture, appearance
and taste which needs to be considered
Nuts are quite popular but coated nuts are new with many
different flavours
Coating machinery is available
Cookies, candies, jujubes are getting popular so Indian
varieties could be developed having similar characteristics but
materials and flavours could be Indian
SUGAR-FREE OR LOW SUGAR
Because of health reasons people are looking for
reduction of sugar but not taste
Various substances with different sweetness intensity
are available
People have used sucralose, sugar alcohols, fructose
oligo saccharide (FOS), stevia etc.
Sugar in normal sweet is anywhere from 15% to 40%
so when that is replaced by sweetener it changes
texture and other characteristics
Need for filler material and changes in formulation
necessary to ensure same experience
Sugar also has a role to play in sweets beside sweet
taste; its reaction with proteins and other ingredients
produces flavour which will be altered when it is
replaced by another ingredient
LOW FAT SWEETS
Most traditional sweets not only have sugar but
sizeable amount of fat
Many consumers are looking for lower fat sweets
because of obesity, CVD, high bp etc.
Again replacing a lot of fat will affect flavour and
texture which needs to be compensated
Filler substances need to be added
Fat replacers are compounds – are either
carb/protein based or fat based substances
These resemble fat functionally but provide much
less energy
HEALTHIER INGREDIENTS
Traditional sweets except the pulse based ones
have low dietary fibre
Addition of fibre either from ingredients or
substances
Use of pulse, dry fruits including nuts can add
dietary fibre
FOS can add sweetness and dietary fibre