This is a simple Indian dessert made on special occasions like Diwali. Desiccated coconut is soaked in milk, cooked with condensed milk and cardamom and topped with a pistachio crumble. This recipe is ...

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While growing up, recipe developer and cookbook author Hetal Vasavada had many family members who worked at Dunkin’ Donuts. This meant that instead of boxes of Indian desserts known as mithai for the ...

Inspired by burfi — a fudgy, milk-based South Asian sweet — Hetal Vasavada makes a pistachio bark topped with melted white chocolate, edible flowers, and just a touch of 24-karat gold or pure silver ...

Raksha Bandhan is celebrated with great enthusiasm and fervour. Desi Indian mithai is the highlight of these festivities. Here's how you can make halwai-style coconut malai barfi at home. The ...

The kitchen has always been like a portal for me. My parents were Indian immigrants who were quick to adjust to the American Midwest, but there was something about the aromas from our stove that meant ...

As a child, the cookbook author Hetal Vasavada longed for American cookies and cakes, but her family made burfi — ambrosial confections — instead. By Priya Krishna See more of our coverage in your ...