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Category: Vegan Sweets and Desserts

Here are some Indian vegan sweets and desserts that are wonderful and quite easy to make.

Bottlegourd Halwa

Bottlegourd Halwa

| March 8, 2013 Comment

Bottlegourd halwa is made with grated bottlegourd (lauki, doodhi, ghiya, sorakaya) and milk and makes a healthy dessert. This is an easy recipe. Although it takes a while to make this dessert, it’s worth it. This is a different way to use this vegetable. As the cooked bottlegourd is slightly sweet, it’s well-suited for desserts. […]

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Banana Sheera

Banana Sheera

| March 7, 2013 Comment

Banana Sheera or halwa is popular all over India, and is one of the sweets offered to deities (prasad/prasadam) in temples during festivals. Made with semolina (cream of wheat), this sweet is known as sheera in Maharashtra, while in the north and south India, it’s called halwa. The regular sheera does not contain bananas; but […]

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