Today, we continue discussing the most popular Asian desserts that can help you impress your bae. Overall, Asians like to combine different textures and flavors. If you are tired of standard cheesecakes ad cookies, you will find it interesting to try unique tastes and ingredients, like tapioca, saffron, and red beans.
Shrikhand
Country of origin: India
Let’s start our second part of the top with a creamy and light Shrikhand. The dessert is cooked with yogurt, sugar, and fruit and can suit both festive events and regular breakfast.
Kaju katli
Country of origin: India
Kaju katli comes from Indian cuisine and is closely associated with diamond shapes. The dessert is very popular in the country. It is traditionally baked of a mixture including cashew nuts, sugar, cardamom powder, and ghee butter. You will often see it in India folded in a very thin silver foil as a sign of prosperity and wealth of the client. This desert is often prepared for traditional Indian festivals.
Pitha
Country of origin: India
Actually, Pitha is more than one dessert. You can find this word naming different cakes and bread around India and Bangladesh. It is usually made of rice flour and more rarely includes wheat and corn flour. These small baked things are often made with spices and nuts. As pitha can be both sweet and spicy, the recipes can include diverse fillings, such as coconut, cheese, lentils, and vegetables as well. In Bangladesh, people don’t eat sweet things for no reason. They often cook pitha for celebrations, weddings, and festivals.
Burma kadayif
Country of origin: Turkey
If you like Asian baklava, these tiny and delicious desserts are for you. The dough is cut into small shreds and scrolled around pistachio nuts. Nuts can be indeed in full or cut into pieces. This sweet thing is baked with a lot of syrup, like many other Turkish desserts.
Daifuku
Country of origin: Japan
Daifuku is a popular dessert in Japan that first appeared in the Edo times. It is made of rice mixed with anko (red bean paste), soybeans, or azuki beans. Daifuku is usually eaten fresh. It can be a nice snack in the morning or serve as a dessert during the tea ceremony. A very tasty version of daifuku is ichigo daifuku. The same ingredients are used to create a tasty shell for strawberries.
Supangle
Country of origin: Turkey
One more famous Turkish dessert is a real treasure for chocolate lovers. The cake pieces have a rich topping made of chocolate pudding. The pudding itself consists of milk, sugar, flour, cocoa powder, butter, and dark chocolate. You will often see this dessert decorated with almonds, walnuts, coconuts, or pistachios.
Cezerye
Country of origin: Turkey
Mersin, Turkey is also the birthplace of nice Asian desserts. Caramelized grated carrot, sugar, and nuts are the key ingredients of this delicious thing. Even the name of it comes from the word meaning carrot. The dessert can come in different shapes, rolled into balls or flat, but often with coconut butter. Take a closer look at this dessert while planning your date. In Turkey, it is believed to have an aphrodisiac effect.
Mysore pak
Country of origin: India
Mysore pak is a true royal dessert. It was created in the 1930s by the royal chef Madappa who worked at the Mysore Palace. To surprise King Krishna Raja Wodeyar, the chef invented a small sunny sweet made of gram flour, ghee butter, and sugar syrup. The dessert is fried and cooled down before serving. You can find it everywhere in India – at festivals and family parties and even sold in the street shops.
Amanattō
Country of origin: Japan
One more little sweet treasure from Japan is Amanattō. Boiled azuki or black soybeans are coated with sugar syrup and sugar. It is said the history of the recipe stars in the 1860s when Hosoda Yasubei made the first amanattō using azuki beans and sasage cowpeas. Today it is very popular among the older generation.
Bastani sonnati
Country of origin: Iran
Bastani sonnati first appeared in Tehran in the 20th century. This is dessert is a type of ice cream cooked by Akbar Mashti for the first time. The ice cream is based on saffron infusion, however, this is not the only ingredient that makes it so special. The recipe also includes rose water and salep extracted from wild orchids. After freezing, it gets a creamy texture and an incredible taste. In a restaurant, you will often see it served with pistachio and wafers.
Patbingsu
Country of origin: South Korea
And one more ice cream but this time from South Korea. Red bean ice flakes are made of azuki bean paste, shaved ice, and condensed milk. In cafes, you will often find it served with a traditional Korean rice cake. This cold sweet thing gets particularly popular in summer when the weather gets too hot outside.