Delicious and Nutritious Navratri Recipes!

Delicious and Nutritious Navratri Recipes

Navratri, an important Hindu festival, is celebrated with great pomp throughout the country twice a year. Navratri is dedicated to worshipping Goddess Durga. Goddess Durga is said to have nine incarnations, each representing a unique power. Hence, Navratri is a nine days long fasting festival. The idols of goddess Durga are adorned with kumkum, bangles, flowers, and jeweled attire. Markets are filled with various festive foods. Even restaurants offer a special Navratri special food menu. The aroma of Navratri recipes fills the air.

There are many restrictions on food items during this fasting period. Grains, table salt, seed-based oils, onion, and garlic are not allowed. Buckwheat flour commonly known as Vrat ka atta, Singhara atta, Samak rice, vegetables, fruits, milk products, and makhana is allowed.

Vrat recipes are light on the stomach and easy to digest.

Rock salt, or sendha namak, is used instead of regular salt to make healthy and tasty food because it is pure and unprocessed. People choose to eat sweet Indian recipes without salt for fast  or use rock salt in place of table salt in their dishes. Many people choose not to fast but follow a vegetarian diet and refrain from drinking alcohol, and smoking cigarettes.

Celebrate the festival with the best of our Navratri recipes. Indulge in far more than the usual fare, ranging from old favorites to newer creations.

  1. Sabudana Khichdi

Sabudana Khichdi


Sabudana khichdi, made with sabudana pearls, boiled potatoes, roasted peanuts, and a few spices, is one of the most popular Navratri recipes. On Hindu fasting days such as Navratri, Mahashivratri, or Ekadashi, it is traditionally prepared. Sabudana khichdi is a delicious, healthy, easy-to-make wholesome meal for the Navratri fast.


  1. Arbi Kofta Kebab


Arbi Kofta Kebab


When you're fasting, do you get tired of eating similar meals for breakfast, lunch, and dinner? Here's an incredible recipe that will make you believe that your fasting food can be versatile, healthy, and tasty. Try making Arbi Kofta Kebabs, which are an excellent Navratri recipe. It tastes great and can be faired with mint chutney or hung yogurt too. 


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  1. Kebab-e-kela


Kebab-e-kela


Fasting does not have to be boring and tasteless. You just need to experiment with the foods and ingredients available for the fasting menu! You can eat delicious food while practicing Navratri fast. This is an uncommon Navratri recipe that will be something different for your taste buds and is surely healthy and tasty. Spiced banana kebabs melt in your mouth and fill you up. Chilies and coriander flavor this festive snack.


  1. Kashi Halwa 

Kashi Halwa


Udupi cuisine's Navratri recipe is ash gourd halwa. Other names for it include kashi halwa, dumroot halwa, and white pumpkin halwa. Ash gourd is also known as petha in Hindi, poosanikai in Tamil, and kumbalanga in Malayalam. It is a low-calorie tasty food that is also very healthy and filling.


Conclusion
 

These recipes are super easy to make and healthy too. Other recipes you can try out are kuttu ki roti and vrat rice pulao. Keep experimenting with the Navratri food items and you will discover many recipes making the fasting period even more enjoyable.


To learn about different flours and how they can be substituted amongst each other give this blog a read: Flour 101: Different Types, and Their Benefits.

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