The Debe experience - Part 2 - Sweet

Another aspect of street food in Debe is the wide range of East Indian sweets offered for sale. Debe is also known for its delicious Indian sweets like kurma, goolab jamoon, barfi, jalebi, and even non-Indian sweets like fudge, sugar cake and peanut brittle.

A vendor in Debe smiling and ready to serve

Laddu or laddoo are ball-shaped sweets made of flour and sugar. They are often served at festive or religious occasions but you can find them at any time in Debe!

Ladoo - golden and delicious

Jalebi is made by deep-frying a wheat flour (maida flour) batter in pretzel or circular shapes, which are then soaked in sugar syrup. The deep orange color comes from turmeric include in the flour mixture.

Jalebi

Kurma is made with wheat flour, milk, coconut milk, spices which is combined into a stiff dough then fried and tossed in simple sugar syrup.

Kurma

Goolab jamoon is similar to kurma except that condensed milk is used to keep the dough soft.

Goolab jamoon

Barfi is a powered milk based Indian sweet that is moulded and topped with colored sprinkles. Debe now offers differnt flavours of barfi including soursop and coconut.

Barfi