Breakfast porridge, snacks and smoothies.
Explore short-eats that make Navratri fasting healthy and fun.
Try these short-eats, snack and breakfast recipes during your Navratri fasting. They are nutritious and a change to your routine breakfast dishes and snacks.
Sweet potato tikki
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An interesting change to aloo tikkis, these sweet potato tikkis made with shingaada (water chestnut) flour is a healthy and delicious snack to enjoy while fasting for Navratri.
INGREDIENTS
Makes: 10
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2 Medium-sized sweet potatoes (boiled, peeled and grated)
2-3 Tbsp shingaada flour
1 Tsp green chillies (chopped)
1 Tbsp coriander leaves (chopped)
1 Tbsp lime juice
1 Tsp cumin powder
½ Tsp chaat masala
1 Tsp fennel seeds (roughly crushed)
1 Tsp coriander seeds (roasted and roughly crushed)
1 Tsp black pepper (roughly crushed)
Salt
Oil (for frying)
Method:
1. In a large bowl combine all the ingredients for the tikki. Add the singhaada flour to bind and use as required.
2. Shape into tikkis and shallow fry. Serve hot.
Amaranth/rajgira flour dosa
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Amaranth is a leafy green that is commonly prepared as a subzi. The grain of the amaranth plant which technically is the fruit of the plant is harvested and milled as a nutritious flour. Amaranth flour is gluten-free and rich in minerals and vitamins. It is considered a superfood which makes this a great choice for a nutritious Navratri fasting dish
INGREDIENTS
Makes: 6
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1 Cup amaranth/rajgira flour
1/4 Cup raagi flour
1/4 Cup mung flour
1 Tbsp corriander seeds
1 Tsp cumin seeds
2 Red chillies (dry)
Salt
Ghee
Method:
1. Slightly roast coriander seeds and dry chillies and roughly blitz in your Ultra Mixer Grinder
2. Add this to all the ingredients and mix well with water to form a batter. The consistency is similar to dosa batter.
3. Add ghee to the dosa and cook. Serve hot and crispy.
Tip: You can substitute raagi and mung flour with ½ cup soaked and ground barnyard millet flour as well.
Apple almond smoothie
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Fruits are a big part of the traditional fasting practices. Some families fast with just fruits for nine days. They are rich in fibre, easy to process and help purify the blood while loading the body with antioxidants, vitamins and minerals.
INGREDIENTS
Makes: 2
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2 Cups almond milk
1 Apple (peeled and cubed)
1 Tbsp Honey
1 Tsp chia seeds
1 Tbsp chopped almonds
Method:
1. In your Ultra Mixer grinder, blend all the ingredients together to a smoothie and serve chilled with ice.
Barnyard millet porridge
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Quite similar to rice pudding, this porridge is delectable and a filling breakfast dish. The porridge can be made savoury with yoghurt and tempered with chillies and cumin or sweet with whole milk / almond milk and sweetened with jaggery.
INGREDIENTS
Serves: 1 cup
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1 Cup banyard millet
1 ½ Cups milk
Jaggery
Chopped nuts and dry fruits
Method:
1. Wash and soak the banyard millet in milk for 30 minutes and cook till done.
2. Add jaggery and top with nuts.
3. Enjoy warm.
Sweet kesar lassi
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This is one of the simplest and refreshing drinks that is healthy on your gut, completely filling and delicious.
INGREDIENTS
Makes: 2 Tall glasses
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3 Cups hung curd
1 Cup whole milk
½ Tsp saffron
¼ Tsp chopped pistachios
Sugar (to taste)
Method:
1. Warm ¼ cup of milk and infuse the saffron strands
2. In your Ultra Mixer grinder, combine the reserved milk, saffron milk, hung yoghurt, sugar and blend to a smooth lump-free drink.
3. Top with pistachios and serve chilled.
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