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The Snack Lover's Dream

Updated: Apr 3


HALDIRAM'S Come take a look at what this 80+ year company has to offer!

Haldiram's is the snack king of Indian delights. They have many popular lines of products ranging from sweet to savory, and even ready made meals. Many of their products are sold internationally if you are looking to try their products but not planning to visit India soon.

SAVORIES

Namkeen snacks tend to be of the salty variety and come in various mixtures. Often times in people's homes they will put out a bowl of these mixtures so that the guest can take a spoonful into their hand to snack on.

Papad is a thin crispy fried disc that can be found made from various flours like lentils, chickpeas, rice, tapioca, millet or potato.

Mathri is a biscuit or cracker like snack that can also come in various forms and flavors.


SWEETS

Soan papdi is usually cube-shaped or served as flakes, and has a crisp and flaky texture. The basic ingredients of this sweet are besan (gram flour), sugar, ghee (clarified butter), and cardamom powder.

Ladoo are sweetened round balls made from flour, sugar and ghee or oil. This is a very common typical Indian sweet.

Kaju Katli/Barfi barfi made by thickening milk with sugar and other ingredients. Kesar kaju katli includes saffron.


READY TO EAT

The READY TO EAT product line is quite extensive including many different typical Indian dishes. Depending on what your looking to try you can go with a dahl (lentil), rice, or paneer (cheese) option. Or maybe you are more interested in food by region then you can sort the flavors based on where the dish originates from. India is a very large country and dishes tend to have variations according to region.


Haldiram's has many types of each snack mentioned above that can be ordered via their website listed below.


https://www.haldirams.com/

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