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More Sugar, Yes Please!

Mumbai is a foodie’s paradise. The city has
restaurants, sweet shops and cafes to serve
some of the best desserts in the country. Mansi
Savla tells us more about desserts in general
and enlists a few mouth-watering treats which
have won the hearts of many Mumbaikars!

When it comes to Mumbai, you have a variety of desserts available in Western desserts now taking over the market
cafes and restaurants. These desserts have captured the hearts of many Desserts like pancakes, waffles, churros, croissants, freak shakes, cupcakes
Mumbaikars. There are Indian desserts, western desserts and fusion and doughnuts are taking the market of the Indian desserts. According to
desserts in the market. Mumbai is a foodie’s paradise, it has restaurants, a study, this kind of desserts appeal more to teenagers. Indian desserts look
sweet shops and cafes to serve regional varieties of desserts as well. plain and boring, while these western desserts look colourful and tempting.
The word dessert has originated from the French word ‘desservir’ which “We make churros of different shapes and colourful so that our customers
means ‘to clear the table’. Any meal is incomplete without dessert. “The of different age get tempted to eat, especially kids,” says Pratik, who works
one thing which we always look forward after having a filling meal is a at Turo Churro, Chowpatty.
sweet sensation of desserts. As desserts are a crucial part of the meal,” Indians have adopted western culture even in their food habits. Pancakes
says Kanchan, a dessert lover. are usually eaten during breakfasts, which has now become a trend in
India. For instance, even McDonald’s now has a breakfast menu that has
Indian desserts during ancient times pancakes along with other food items.
Different regions in India have their own traditional dessert, Ghevar from
Rajasthan, Rasgulla and Rasmalai from Bengal, Jalebi from Gujarat, Fusion Desserts
Pineapple Sheera from Madras, Rabdi from North India and Puran Poli The recent food experiment that is being conducted is Fusion desserts. It
from Maharashtra. Nowadays, all these desserts are readily available in is an attempt to mix Indian and western ingredients to give a complex
any market and so they have lost their original taste. With western and fu- looking dessert. The in-trend fusion desserts are Rasgulla cheesecake,
sion desserts in the market, Indian dessert has lost its importance. “In an- Kalakand ice cream, Thandai cheesecake, Gulab jamun trifle, Motichoor
cient times, desserts were made of jaggery, honey, saffron, almond, ghee, Doughnut cake.
milk, dates and other healthy stuff. But now, the story is completely dif- Chefs at restaurants make sure that the dish looks special and puts more
ferent. Desserts are filled with maida, food colour, flavour essence and efforts in the presentation. “We make use of nitrogen liquid and molecule
sugar which are unhealthy and leads to obesity,” says Dhruvi, a dessert gastronomy to present our dish which attracts consumers. We have special
lover. Indian desserts were earlier made on certain occasions, but now it chefs for garnishing these fusion desserts,” said Janardan, who works at
has become a part of every meal. This is because desserts are now avail- Spiceklub, Lower Parel.
able in the market and people don’t have to prepare it by themselves. “I
think every dessert belongs to their own place where it can’t be compared Chocolate Desserts
with others as Indian desserts have its own benefit. Indian dessert com- Chocolate is the most tempting ingredient in any dessert. People have no
prises natural ingredients like jaggery and honey which has medicinal second thoughts about the taste of the dessert if it contains chocolate.
properties that keeps you healthy,’’ says Manshi, a fan of Indian desserts. Many chefs appeal to the fact that chocolate attracts more consumers.

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