Pantua (Bengali: পান্তুয়া) is a local confection from the Indian subcontinent, notable in West Bengal, Eastern India and Bangladesh.

[1] It is a traditional Bengali sweet made of deep-fried balls of semolina, chhena, milk, ghee and sugar syrup.

Pantuas range in colour from pale brown to nearly black depending on how long they are fried.

The distinctive feature of ledikeni is its molten sugar syrup of lightly flavored cardamom powder.

[3] A sweet very similar to the modern pantua and ledikeni, but made of rice flour, is mentioned in the 12th century Sanskrit-language text Manasollasa.