Navratri Recipes | Navratri Fasting Recipes | 100+ Navratri Vrat Recipes

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As we are celebrating the Navratri festival from 17th October to 25th October this year, I have compiled 100+ Navratri Vrat recipes / Navratri Recipes / Navratri Fasting Recipes. Please click each picture below to read the full recipe, with step by step photos, useful tips, and some with short video recipes too.

Interesting Facts about Navratri

Navratri festival is celebrated throughout India, though the method and ways of celebrating may vary in each state. The word ‘Navratri’refers to the nine auspicious nights during which Goddess Durga is worshiped and most people observe fasts. It is celebrated twice a year, at the beginning of spring, and during the onset of autumn. Usually, in some parts of the north, west and central India people observe a fast on all nine days. Some people may choose to fast only on the first and the last day of the festival. Fasting is a way to pay your gratitude to the Goddess. It is the time of the year again when idols of goddess Durga are decorated with kumkum, bangles, flowers, jewelry, and morning prayers are offered accompanied by synchronized bells. Navratri festival is the time of the year to get back to the roots and deviate from the day-to-day machine life. During Navratri, most people give up non-vegetarian food while many others also skip onion and garlic from their meals. Vrat recipes such as Sabudana khichdi, fruit chaat, Sabudana kheer, Chivda, and Spicy Makhana are some of the popular dishes prepared during the Navratri season.

Ingredients like singhara atta, kuttu Atta, vegetables, fruits, milk, yogurt, and makhanas are preferred as they are light on the stomach and can be digested easily. Also, instead of regular salt, rock salt or sendha namak is used as it is pure and unprocessed.

Wish all my Readers and Friends Happy Navratri.

Navratri Recipes

More about Navratri (Source: wiki)

Navratri in Sanskrit literally means 9 nights is a multi-day Hindu festival celebrated in the autumn every year. The festival is celebrated in the Hindu calendar month Ashvin, which typically falls in the month of September and October. In Tamilnadu, Navratri has been a historic tradition with goddess Lakshmi, Saraswathi and Durga on the focus. Another notable Tamil tradition is a celebration of the festival with golu dolls. These dolls include Gods, Goddess, animals, birds and rural life all in a miniature design. People set up their own creative themes in their homes called kolu, invite relatives and friends to their homes to view the kolu design and serve sweets, snacks and sundal as prasad.

Collection of Navratri Fasting Recipes for this year

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100+ Navratri Vrat Recipes

Collection of Navratri recipes for 9 days. Click pics in this page to navigate to the detailed recipe

Sundal Recipes
Sundals are nothing but dry legumes tempered with red chilli, curry leaves and mixed with freshly grated coconut. Sundal Recipes are highly protein-packed nutritious snacks and are served as prasad / prasadam during Navaratri after pooja.

Snacks Recipes
I have listed both sweet and savoury versions of snacks in this collage. These items are crowd pleasers and it is a favourite for all kids to elders.

Modak Recipes

Appam Recipes
These appams are mainly prepared with rice flour sometimes with wheat, sooji and maida too. These recipes can be prepared in a jiffy and are not deep fried ones, so no need to worry about calories. A special pan called Appe Pan / Paddu Maker pan / Paniyarakkal are used to prepare these delicacies.

Ladoo Recipes
Ladoo/Laddu is a most versatile recipe that it can be done by anyone without any flop. If you go wrong anywhere in the recipe, there are numerous tricks to troubleshoot it. I have shared some tricks in the recipe itself. Do have look at it. Commonly besan flour, dry coconut, sooji, peanuts etc are used for making these ladoos and it is widely prepared for almost all festivals and weddings.

Sweet Recipes
Sweets are also called as Mittai and it is a must for all festivals in every home as the word sweet itself spreads joy. I have listed sweets made with cashew, besan flour, coconut etc.

Payasam / Kheer Recipes
Payasam also was known as Khir / Kheer can be done in so many innumerable ways using so many ingredients like rice, fruits, vermicelli, sooji, wheat etc. It is famous not only in India but often made in other countries like Nepal, Pakistan and SriLanka too. Payasam is the only dish that we can play with the ingredients, deviate the recipe and create a lot of new innovative dishes.

Breakfast Recipes
These recipe collections are made during Navaratri festivals in South India. If preparing for fasting/vrat, do skip onion and garlic used in the dishes.

Rice Recipes
In South India, these rice varieties are offered as prasadam after pooja and it is easy to prepare also.

Kesari – Halwa Recipes
Usually, Sooji, vermicelli, fruits are used to prepare Kesari, in addition to sugar, ghee, milk and water. Halwa is commonly prepared with corn flour, fruits, sooji, wheat flour etc. Both Halwa and Kesari are prepared throughout the country for all occasions.