Sweet bread

Sheermal, a slightly sweet and soft bread, is the perfect contrast to spiced but delicate stews of Awadh. It is made with maida, saffron, milk, ghee with a pinch of baking soda.

There are plenty of sweet breads that have earned a 'classic' status over the years. Here are some of our all-time favourite sweet breads.

Bread barfi recipe: If you ever crave for coconut barfi and don't have time and ingredients, here's a recipe that lets you make your favourite sweet with bread.

The Mughals didn't just leave behind an array of meaty delicacies and decadent sweetmeats but a whole lot of fascinating breads like khameeri roti, and sheermal.

I don't know whether other countries combine flour and lentils in a sweet dish quite as deliciously as we do in India. The Parsis have their Dar ni Pori, a thick, toothsome layer of sweetened ...

Roath is part of several festive and celebratory occasions and one of its most common use, is announcing the arrival of "new bride" in the neighbourhood.

In a world of halwa and barfi, Puran Poli has managed to carve its own identity as a unique sweet bread stuffed with delectably sweet dal filling.

You'll have a giant, alcohol-soaked Christmas cake reposing in your kitchen. These traditions are old, comforting, well-worn. But they aren't the only ones - each country has its own set of traditional foods that are ...

From yogurt to rice flour, mango to jaggery, Maharashtrian desserts are an indulgent treasure of flavours.