Festival Recipes

Festival Recipes here are the options you can consume while following a healthy diet during festivals.

The festive season is the celebratory time for all when we like to enjoy ourselves and indulge in yummy and delicious food items be it savory or sweet.

 

 

It is the best time for food lovers. Be it any festival, Holi, Diwali, Eid, Teej, Ganesha Chaturthi, Navratri, or Christmas,

We all like to lay back and spend some quality time with our friends and family

and most importantly we love to prepare new recipes and try new dishes guilt-free.

 

 

Festivals can be a period when you might indulge in eating lots of varieties of food items.

They can be too sweet or salty or fried and oily foods. When we see many options in front of us,

we eventually end up adding more to our plate and then eating more than we were supposed to.

 

 

Many of us might also overeat during festivals and then go on to a guilt trip of gaining weight, high cholesterol, or deranged lipid profile,

Or blood sugar levels. So, in order to enjoy festival time to its fullest, let’s choose healthy but equally tasty recipes.

 

 

We have prepared a variety of healthy festivity recipes for you so that you don’t have to worry about extra calories, or sugar, or fat.

content of the dish, and you can just go ahead savoring the food without any concerns regarding gaining weight.

 

 

Even the simple changes in a dish can add up the nutrition without actually doing much effort.

We want you to enjoy your festivals and have fun while pampering yourself with good, healthy, and mouth-watering food.

Sweets- Dry fruit laddoo

Home made Sweets- Dry fruit laddoo in 10 mins:

By / Festival Recipes, Healthy Recipes, Weight Loss Recipes

Home made Sweets-Dry Fruit Laddoo is a super healthy, protein-packed, and nutrients rich laddoo, ideal for gift packing. You can prepare these laddus with the dry nuts & fruits available at your home. you can skip any ingredient except the dates as they give sweetness to the laddus. poppy seeds, nutmeg are just optional ingredients. nutmeg powder a nice flavor. This is healthy&nutrtious food for the growing kids. you can give 1 laddu in the morning and one in the evening.

Ingredients Required for Home made Sweets – Dry fruit laddoo:

0.5 cup chopped dates

 1.5 tablespoons almonds

 1 tablespoons raisins

 1 tablespoons cashews

 4 dried figs

 0.5 tablespoon desiccated coconut – optional

 1 green cardamom – crushed in a mortar-pestle

Method for Home made Sweets– Dry fruit laddoo:

Firstly begin to roast the almonds in a pan until they get browned.

Keep stirring the almonds at intervals. You can also lightly roast the almonds. Set aside.

Roughly chop the dates and figs.

You will be needing 1 cup of chopped dates – so measure the chopped dates and set aside.

First lightly crush the cardamom pods in a mortar pestle. Then remove the peels and crush the seeds coarsely. Set aside.

In a spice grinder, blender or mixer-grinder add the chopped dates, figs, cashews, raisins, almonds, desiccated coconut and the coarsely powdered cardamom powder.

Add the roasted almonds.

Grind to a coarse mixture and spread on a tray or plate or take the mixture in a bowl.

Make a round laddoo with the mixture. Now you can enjoy this yummy dry fruit laddoo.

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Shakkarkandi tikkis/ Sweet Potato

How to make Shakkarkandi tikkis/ Sweet Potato Cutlets:

By / Breakfast Recipes, Festival Recipes, Healthy Breakfast Recipes, Healthy Recipes, Weight Loss Recipes

Shakkarkandi tikkis/Sweet Potatoe Cutlets is an excellent source of various minerals, vitamins, and fibers that are quite beneficial for the overall health. This starchy yet sweet-tasting root has a thick skin from outside with a coloured pulp inside.

Shakkarkandi tikkis/Sweet Potatoe to improve skin texture and reduces oily skin boil the sweet potato and mash it thoroughly. Once you’re done with the mashing, add a tablespoon of organic honey to it. Apply this mixture to your face and wash off after few minutes

Here are some Ingredients Required for Shakkarkandi tikkis/ Sweet Potato Cutlets :

2 sweet potatoes (shakarkandi) 

0.5 teaspoon ginger-green chilli paste

1/2 or 1 tablespoon arrowroot flour or water chestnut flour or buckwheat flour

Half teaspoon chaat masala

 0.2 teaspoon dry mango powder (amchur powder)

 0.5 teaspoon lemon juice

 0.5 teaspoon crushed roasted cumin or cumin powder

 0.2 teaspoon red chilli powder

 0.1 teaspoon garam masala powder

 rock salt (edible and food grade) (sendha namak) or black salt as required

 oil for frying

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Method to make Shakkarkandi tikkis/ Sweet Potato:

Rinse the sweet potatoes well in water.

You can roast this in over or use pressure cooker to make shakarkandi soft and easy to eat.

You can boil the same in an open pan too.

With a potato masher mash the sweet potatoes well.

Add all the ingredients except oil. mix well.

Shape into medium-sized tikkis or patties.

Pan-fry the tikkis with little oil to make it look brown.

Garnish with fresh coriander leaves.

Serve sweet potato tikki with a chutney.

Benefits:

  • To Improve Skin Texture.
  • Strengthens Immune System.
  • Increases Metabolism.
  • Provides with Vitamin D.
  • Rich In Iron.

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Makhana Paag Prasad

How to make Makhana Paag Prasad at home :

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Makhana Paag Prasad is one of the most popular of recent trending foods on earth. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It is appreciated by millions every day. Makhana paag is a special dish made on the eve of Janmashtami.

Ingredients Required for Makhana Paag Prasad :

Makhana (Lotus Seeds): 40 grams

Ghee: 100 grams

Coconut: 50 grams (grated)

Powdered Sugar (Bhoora): 200 grams

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Here are some methods to follows:

To begin with, cut the makhanas into halves with the help of a knife and keep them aside in a bowl.

Then, take a pan and preheat it for a few seconds. Once the pan is sufficiently hot, add ghee to it and allow it to melt.

Now, add the halved makhana bits inside the pan and fry them till they turn slightly brown in hue. Keep stirring the makhanas and ensure that the flame is on medium so that they don’t turn extra dark or burn.

Take out the fried makhanas in a wide bowl and allow them to cool down for a while.

Meanwhile, prepare the chashni (sugar syrup) for the paag by adding powdered sugar in a pan along with water. Cook till the sugar granules (if any) completely melt and the mixture attains one-string consistency.

Once the sugar syrup is prepared, add the fried makhanas along with grated coconut in the pan and give the mixture a nice stir so that all the makhana bits get evenly coated. Wait for the mixture to cool; transfer onto a plate and allow it to set. Your makhana paag prasad is ready.

So, try this easy recipe at home and make your Janmashtami celebrations even more blissful.

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