Gulab Jamun

India's most popular dessert, gulab jamun are deep-fried dumplings made from khoya (reduced milk solids) soaked in a warm rose-and-cardamom-scented sugar syrup. The dumplings are fried to a deep mahogany brown, then submerged in the fragrant syrup until they absorb the sweetness and become impossibly soft and syrupy. No Indian wedding, festival, or celebration is complete without these melt-in-your-mouth spheres of indulgence.