Region or state Bengal Place of origin India Serving temperature Hot or Cold | Type of dish Confectionery Region Bengal | |
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Main ingredients Semolina, Khoya, Milk, Ghee, Sugar Similar Sandesh, Mitha dahi, Patoleo, Kadboli, Chhena | ||
Ranga aloor pantua sweet potato jamun
Pantua (Bengali: পান্তুয়া) is a local confection of eastern India and Bangladesh. It is a traditional Bengali sweet made of deep-fried balls of semolina, chhana, milk, ghee and sugar syrup. Pantuas range in colour from pale brown to nearly black depending on how long they are fried. Rose water, cardamom or other flavourings are sometimes added to the sweet.
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- Ranga aloor pantua sweet potato jamun
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Pantua is very similar to the cheese-based fried sweet ledikeni. The distinctive feature of ledikeni is its molten sugar syrup of lightly flavored cardamom powder. The name ledikeni is a rendition of "Lady Canning" and was first used by confectioner Bhim Chandra Nag, when he renamed his pantuas specially prepared on the occasion of the birthday of Countess Charlotte Canning, wife of Governor-General Charles Canning.
Pantua is similar to gulab jamun, and could be called a Bengali variant of that dish.
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