Healthy Snack Recipes

Indian Snacks

These snack recipes are easy to make. Snacks are food items that we eat in between meals. Everybody loves snacks. Not just children, grown ups too love snacks.

Children would rather have a snack than a regular meal. Snacks are generally more appealing than regular meals such as breakfast, lunch, dinner. Why?

Why are snacks popular

• Snacks are tastier.
• There is a big variety of snacks.
• Snacks are available - ready to eat
• Are generally quick to make.
• You do not need to sit down in one place to have a snack.
• You can have a snack while on the move.

Why are ready snacks not so good for you and family?
Ready snacks May Contain :

• preservatives which are not good for you.
• Artificial sweeteners are used.
• They are processed a lot, the natural nutrients are missing.
• May contain more fat and salt than is good for you.
• May be totally unhealthy for you.

So would it not make more sense to make your own snacks? They will be definitely more health giving than the store bought ones.

We consider that having three regular meals such as breakfast, lunch and dinner is better than having snacks.

But what if you can healthy snacks? Wouldn't that be more interesting and beneficial too?

It is sometimes difficult to make kids eat the regular rice and bread and vegetables etc at dinner or any other meal. Offer them healthy filling snacks which are made using rice or whole wheat flour and vegetables.

They will be happy to get what they like and you will feel happy when they eat what you prepared and appreciated.

You will find here a variety of snack recipes. Fried snacks, steamed snacks, stomach filling snacks, just time pass snacks etc.

Healthy snack recipes For You

Dalia Sheera

- Cracked wheat - Broken wheat halwa

Maddur Vada

Maddur Vada recipe. South Indian Snack.

Chinese noodles - Vegetarian

Easy, simple and quick chinese noodle recipe.

Potato Pancakes - Eggless

Easy, simple and quick potato pancake recipe.

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.

Vegetable Frankie

Veg frankie - vegetable frankie recipe

Bread Upma

Make your leftover bread more interesting.

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.

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• Fruit snacks- Make your fruits tastier with this.
• Vegetable Samosa- A Yummy vegetable snack.
• Rava Idli -Steamed Semolina cakes.
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• Pani Puri - Yummy chaat item, with digestive herbs.
• Dahi Puri - Cool curd (yogurt) based snack.
  

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