Diwali - Navaratri - Ganesh - Festival Recipes

Festivals keep the traditions and the culture of the country/region alive. Festival foods play an important part in making the festivals or any celebration more enjoyable.

Festivals give us a chance to give ourselves a break from the routine life. It is a way to remind ourselves that life is not all about just work. That there are other important things in life and we should give some time for them too.

Shopping, outings, meeting family at get togethers, religious rituals, prayers, cooking the festival foods together, sharing and feasting with family members and friends, all these are integral parts of any festive celebration. It also sometimes happens that we meet or contact and connect with some friends and family members only during the festival time.

All religions, cultures, countries have their own festivals. These festivals may be related to seasons, legends, mythological stories, history etc. Some festivals may also help in the spiritual awakening.

When we mention a festival, the food associated with that festival comes to mind immediately. Our childhood memories link these foods to the specific festivals. We eagerly wait for that favorite festival to arrive so that we can enjoy those foods in that particular atmosphere.

Of course now a day, you can have any food at any time. But having a particular festival food during the festival itself has a special charm.

Most festival recipes use the ingredients easily available in that particular season and therefore are also healthy for you.

Indian festival food is varied and because of the diversity of the regions, customs the variety is endless. The sweets , the namkeens(savories) are so mouth watering, it is difficult to resist them.

You don't really need to wait for a festival to make these recipes. Make them when you feel like and celebrate the day.

Indian festival recipes for you:

Indian Festival Sweets

Kaju Katli - Indian Cashewnut Fudge

Cashew nut sweet recipe

Carrot Halwa

Easy To Make Sweet with Carrots and milk.

Dalia Sheera - Cracked wheat halwa

Cracked wheat - Broken wheat halwa - Indian Sweet recipe

Besan Ladoo - Besan Laddu

Chickpea flour(bengal gram flour)sweet laddoo

Sheera/Sooji - Halwa - Kesari

Sweet with Cream Of Wheat, Semolina

Shrikhand - festival sweet

curd - Yogurt dessert recipe

• Yeriappa - Sweet Appam Recipe - Dasara - Navaratri Recipes
• Badam Kheer - Almond Kheer
• Beetroot Halwa -Diwali - Deepavali recipe
• Coconut Burfi - Diwali - Deepavali recipe
• Kheer - Diwali - Deepavali recipe
• KhusKhus kheer - Ghasghase Payasa - Poppy seeds Kheer - South Indian Recipe
• Ukadiche Modak - Ganesh Chaturthi Sweet

Festival Drink Recipes

Mango Lassie - Mango Smoothie

Cool mango and curd (yogurt) drink

• Badam Milk - Almond Milk
• Kairi Panha Recipe - Summer festival cool drink recipe

Festival Rice Recipes

Mango Rice

- Serve with rice or roti.

khichadi

- Easy to digest rice and lentil recipe.

Lime Rice - Lemon Rice - Chitranna

- Easy to digest rice and lentil recipe.

• Sweet Coconut Rice

Festival Raita Recipes

• Boondi Raita
• Cucumber Salad

Festival Snack Recipes

Fried ChickPeas

Stir Fried Chickpeas - ghugari - sundal

Dahi Vada -Dahi Bhalle

Yogurt based cool snack for hot summers.

Aloo Bonda - Batata Vada

Yummy potato and chickpea flour snack.

Fried poha chivda

Fried poha chivda - beaten rice - Rice flakes snack

Spicy Thin poha Chivda

Thin Aval - Poha - Beaten Rice Flakes - roasted

Fried poha chivda

Fried poha chivda - beaten rice - Rice flakes snack

Spicy Thin poha Chivda

Thin Aval - Poha - Beaten Rice Flakes - roasted

Dhokla

A chickpea flour steamed Gujarati snack.

Poori

Poori with bhaji

• Samosa
• Ambode - Chana dal vada recipe- South indian festival recipe.

Festival Vegetable Recipes

• Avial - Kerala Onam recipe
• Aloo bhaji - Potato subji Vegetable side dish

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