I visited a popular Indian sweet store in Tooting, South London, and tasted its offering of mithai. I spent £12, or over $16, in Pooja Sweets & Savouries, which sells traditional individual desserts.

In the ’90s, spice and halal meat were not easy to come by in my hometown in Michigan, so on ambitious days, my mother would skip the drive to Detroit and head to Devon Avenue in West Ridge. The ...

Younger South Asian cooks are riffing on these classics, turning them into cookies, pies and ice cream, and (gasp!) adding salt. By Priya Krishna The brightly hued sweets at a mithai shop — ...

Curious about the Indian city famous for its peda obsession? The answer lies in the heart of Uttar Pradesh. Mathura is widely ...

If you’re like me and admit to having a sweet tooth, traditional Indian desserts -- or mithai-- are a guilty pleasure worth discovering. People here make and share mithai to celebrate everything from ...

What does it take to make til chikki exciting again? Could we make it slim as a wafer, one or two millimetres thick instead of the usual six to eight? Could we dip white miso-spiked squares of it ...

In this Indian restaurant staple, patties of the porous fresh cheese sweet called rasgulla float in sweet, condensed milk flavored with cardamom and pistachios. Rasgullas are traditionally made by ...

“We wanted to show people that we can do multicultural food from India, whether it is South Indian, North Indian, or Gujarati,” says Sachin Mody, an owner of Rajbhog. Bombay Kitchen’s menu allows ...

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (Dawn/ANN) — Upon turning into the street and looking around, one wonders why the people have not gotten fat. In Liaquatabad, the street nicknamed “Mithai Gali” by locals is full ...