If you are planning to make sweets at home during the upcoming festivals, then we are going to share some amazing tips with you. By keeping these things in mind, you can make perfect Halwai-like sweets every time.
The festive season has started and the one thing without which every festival is incomplete is delicious sweets. As soon as a festival is about to come, preparations for making sweets at home begin. This is not only our age-old tradition, but also no one wants to play with their health by eating the adulterated sweets that are coming in the market these days. Anyway, nowadays there are sugar patients sitting in every other house, for them finding sugar free sweets in the market is no less than fighting a war. Keeping all these things in mind, the best option seems to be to make sweets at home. However, it is very important to keep certain things in mind while making sweets at home. If you prepare sweets keeping these small things in mind, then believe me the taste of your sweets will be no less than the sweets made by any confectioner.
These 5 things will help in making perfect sweets
1) If you plan to make sweets at home during the festive season, then add grated dry coconut along with other ingredients to enhance its taste. The taste of sweets will increase manifold and whoever eats the sweets will definitely ask you for its recipe.
2) Use of cardamom also increases the taste of sweets. A mixture of saffron with cardamom is also preferred. Instead of just mixing cardamom seeds in sweets, use them by making powder.
3) If you also like khoya, then boil milk at home, thicken it and prepare khoya. When the khoya cools completely, mash it well with hands and mix it with other sweet ingredients to prepare a delicious dessert.
4) If you are making sugar free sweets, then use stevia and erythritol etc. to increase the sweetness. There are also natural alternatives like honey or maple syrup, but use them in moderation as they are high in calories.
5) Sugar or jaggery is used to bind the sweets. But if you are making sugar free sweets, then there is a problem in tying it. In such a situation, you can use binders like almond powder, oats, dates powder so that the sweets are made in the right shape.