A traditional sweet dish made during pongal festival. This dish is made with sugar candy (kalkandu)
Sweets
Explore a delicious collection of traditional South Indian sweets and festive dessert recipes, including kesari, halwa, poli, burfi, payasam, boondhi, laddu, sakkarai pongal, kozhukattai, modak, puttu, urundai, badhusha, and more. These vegetarian sweet recipes include classic Tamil festival dishes, jaggery-based treats, milk sweets, healthy variations, and special-occasion recipes for weddings, poojas, and celebrations.
Dates Kozhukattai
Dates Kozhukattai features a sweet dates-jaggery-coconut filling wrapped in soft rice flour dough, then steamed until tender. Serve whole or sliced into bite-sized rounds.
Wheat Rawa Sweet Pongal
Wheat Rawa Sweet Pongal is made by pressure-cooking roasted wheat rawa and moong dal, then simmering with strained jaggery syrup until thick. Finish with ghee-fried cashews, raisins, and cardamom.
Carrot Sago Payasam
Looking for a delicious dessert? This recipe combines carrot, sago, and milk to create a sweet and creamy dish. Give it a try! #payasam
Potato Payasam
Potato Payasam is a creamy, comforting dessert where mashed potato and cooked green gram simmer in milk, then sweetened with strained jaggery syrup and finished with ghee-fried nuts, raisins, and cardamom.
Pumpkin Moong Dal Halwa
This halwa is made with yellow pumpkin (Parangikai) and moong dhal.
Semiya (Vermicelli) Halwa
A sweet halwa made from vermicelli (semiya), milk, cashew nuts and then garnished with chopped mixed nuts.
Surya Kala / Chandra Kala / Lavanga Latika
A sweet that is usually made for diwali. With the same dough and stuffing, we can prepare three sweets namely Surya Kala, Chandra Kala and Lavanga Latika.
Instant Khoya
A sweet that can be snacked anytime or served with lunch as a sweet. This instant khoya can be used in preparing the sweets and other dishes.
Green Gram Sweet Sundal
This sweet sundal is made with Green Gram (Moong), Jaggery and coconut gratings. The green gram is soaked overnight.
Wheat Flour Laddu
Wheat Flour Laddu is a fragrant, ghee-roasted sweet made by toasting wheat flour until aromatic, then mixing in powdered sugar, cardamom, and fried cashews. Add warm ghee gradually and shape into lemon-sized balls.
Vella Sevai
Vella Sevai is a sweet idiyappam dish tossed with jaggery syrup boiled to one-string consistency and scented with cardamom. Mix the syrup in gradually, rest briefly, then serve.