Navaratri festival | Navaratri fasting recipes |
Upvas recipes | Vrat recipes
Navaratri festival fasting recipes. Upvas recipes – Vrat recipes are for those who follow the navaratri upvas. These recipes are useful for other vrat / upvas/ fasting too.
In Indian traditional recipes, fasting/upvas/vrat recipes are special recipes. The accepted food ingredients differ from region to region. The family traditions matter too.
Usually, Onion, garlic is not allowed on fasting days in most places. These are considered as tamasick. Only satvik ingredients are allowed.
In south, roasted rice / aval /poha recipes are allowed in some families. Some use green chilies, some use only red chili powder.
Navaratri festival fasting recipes
- Sago – Sabudana khichadi for vrat/upvas – Made in Maharashtra, Gujarat, Karnataka.
- Kabuli Chana sundal/Stir fried Chickpeas – Stir fried Chickpeas – Kabuli Chana sundal – Ghugri. Made with kabuli chana – garbanzo beans, prepared on festivals such as Ganesh chaturthi and distributed to the devotees as prasad, also served as a healthy snack.
- Aloo poori – potato puri – Alu puri is a Indian breakfast recipe. You may also serve it as a snack or take it for picnic. Indian snack recipe.
- Methi poori/fenugreek leaves puri – Indian breakfast – snack – lunch box recipe, made with whole wheat flour and methi/fenugreek leaves.
- Ambode – Chana Dal vada – This South Indian dal vada recipe is a spicy snack recipe – Festival recipe, made with split chickpeas
- Fried poha chivda – This thick rice flakes recipe is made from thick poha / aval. Tea time snack recipe. Diwali festival recipe
- Thin poha aval chivda – – Rice flakes – aval – made from thin beaten / flattened rice flakes as a easy snack. Diwali festival snack. Keeps for 3-4 weeks.
- Spicy Mango rice – Mavinkai chitranna – Mango rice made using sour green mango. Recipe from South India.
- Sweet coconut rice Rice pudding recipe – made on Narali Poornima day in Maharashtra, North Karnataka.
- curd rice – yogurt rice – Make curd rice, also known as yogurt rice – dahi bhaat – mosaranna – thyir sadam
- Kairi dal – Ambe dal – Green mango salad – Ambe dal or kairichi dal is a Maharashtrian summer recipe, made with green mango and chana dal.
- Bhopla gharge/Pumpkin poori – Lal bhopla gharge or pumpkin poori or pumpkin sweet fritters are a recipe from Maharashtra.
- vegetable Rava upma/Namkin halwa/Uppittu/Tikhat sanja – vegetable rava upma. Easy south Indian breakfast recipe. Known as uppittu (Kannada), tikhat sanja(Marathi), namkin halwa(Hindi) etc.
