Punjabi Dhabha - Sweets or Desserts

Sweets or Desserts

Phirni, a sweet dish made of milk, rice flour and sugar and chilled in earthenware bowls, Gulab Jamuns and Burfi. The desserts also include fresh hot Jelebi with Vanilla ice cream, Rasamalai and Kesari Kheer.

The saffron-mixed buttermilk (lassi) of Amritsar, milk boiled with almonds, pistachio and dry-dates in winter and the same mix boiled into a thick liquid and then solidified in a banana shaped mould in the form of a Kulfi are also desert items of food. Panjiri, whole wheat flour fried in sugar and ghee, heavily laced with dry-fruits and herbal gums is in eaten in the winters to ward off cold.

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