Gluten Free and Vegan Fating meal option. Appe made from pumpkin along with buckwheat flour and water-chestnut flour. A healthy substitute to the fried fasting recipes.They are light on the tummy and do not make you feel bloated at all.I tried them for the first time this year and instantly fell in love with them.Can be eaten in supper or a morning snack if you do.Super healthy as they have pumpkin.A perfect Fall recipe and can be eaten at as a halloween party appetisers .You may just substitute the flours with our regular all purpose flour or rice flours and…
Fasting recipe
Tomato Chilli Dip
A simple yet extremely flavorful,little spicy and tangy Dip perfect to be served with the Navratri Pumpkin tortilla chips and Appe. If you are not fasting then enjoy this dip with any Tortilla chips of your choice.A perfect dip for a party snack.
Pumpkin Tortilla Chips: with waterchestnut flour and buckwheat flour
Baked Tortillas made from pumpkin pulp and buckwheat and water-chestnut flour. An apt recipe for fasting and a very healthy tortillas chips recipe which can be eaten with another flour substitute for other occassions as well. Notes:
Vrat Dosa/Buckwheat Pancake/Dosa eaten during Fasting
Vrat Dosa or Buckwheat dosa is made with buckwheat flour and waterchestnut flour.Made specially during fasting /Navratri fasting.Healthy, gluten free ,vegan fruit based diet. Food for your soul- Food for Purification Fasting in Ancient India had more spiritual meaning than religious. Fasting is to purify. Fasting is to calm the mind, body and soul. We…
Potato Curry/Vrat Ke Aloo
A no onion -no garlic recipe, vrat ke aloo is a simple curry made with boiled potatoes dipped and cooked in a tomato curry. No use of onion & garlic makes this curry very soft on your digestive system and is prepared mainly during the fasting periods. Its the same curry we make with our poori/fried wheat pastries. This recipe can go well with your poori ,kachori and all other occassions like pooja bhog etc. In India, all pooja / prayer meetings are held with a following lunch or dinner serving where no use of onion or garlic is common.This…
Kuttu Ki Kachori /Buckwheat Pastry
Vrat Ki kachori or Kuttu ki kachori/Buckwheat Pastry is a cottage cheese stuffed pastry which is shallow fried on medium heat .These are not made from wheat flour,but from Buckwheat flour.In India during the fasting periods especially Navratri which falls around march and October only fruits or ingredients made our of fruit are used to prepare food.We normally avoid eating any grains at all. Food is eaten only once in a day and only rock salt is consumed during fasting.So all the recipes are prepared using rock salt or sendha namak as called in India. This year am trying this…
Khatta -Meetha Kaddu/ Sweet & Sour Pumpkin
Navratras are approaching and so the preparations are in full swing to celebrate the Festivities and relish the food to their best. Come October and the festivities begin.I just love this month.Its full of excitement,action,celebrations,happiness,birthdays and best of all feasting!!. Food preps go hand in hand with all other paraphernalia. And Food preparations are my favorite part. I learnt this recipe from my mother-in-law. I love this dish and hope you all too.Do try this khatta meetha kaddu. During,Fasting days we make it only with jeera and tomatoes. It gets its “khatta/sour” flavor from the tomatoes and meetha from sugar….
Sabudana Kheer / Tapioca Pudding
Sabudana Kheer or Tapioca / Sago Pudding is synonymous with Fasting here in India. Its a popular ingredient for food during fasting period,as it gives a cooling effect to the body and also helps remove excess bile. As believed by many, our food culture originated from Ayurveda. If you must have noticed,our Fasting Period appears during the two change of seasons. According to Ayurveda, during the change of seasons,our digestion becomes slow and we must intake food which is soft and easy to digest. Wheat and other grains could be hard for the digestive system and if consumed could make…