Diwali Recipes
Your Diwali celebrations may not be complete without sweet dishes and delicious treats! That’s because it’s the occasion when people exchange gifts, sweets, and snack items with your dear ones. These food items are not just bought from the shop but they are often prepared at home as part of the festive celebrations.
Diwali Recipes You May Try Out
Here are some recipes which you can prepare during the festival of lights
Diwali Sweet Recipes
Sweet dishes are an important part of your Deepavali celebrations. So, check out how to prepare the sweet recipes given below:
Cashew Barfi (Kaju Katli): This mouthwatering dish is easy to cook and delicious to eat. So, let your dear ones relish it during the festive season.
Ingredients:
· 1 cup cashews
· 4 tablespoon milk powder
· 1 cup powdered sugar
· Some amount of milk
· 1 tablespoon ghee
· 1/2 tablespoon powdered cardamom
Instructions:
· Put the cashews into a blender and grind them into fine powder.
· Knead the cashews with milk powder, ghee, cardamom, and milk.
· Continue to knead until the mixture becomes a thick dough.
· Roll out and cut the dough into pieces.
· Bake the pieces in the oven until they turn light golden brown.
Your Cashew Barfi recipe is ready to be savored! You may serve it to your friends and family over a feast as well as pack these sweets in a decorative box and gift it to your loved ones on Diwali.
Kheer (Rice Pudding):
Here’s another sweet recipe that’s sure to be a hit with your loved ones.
Ingredients:
· 1/4th cup long grain rice (washed and drained)
· 2-3 cardamom seeds (crushed)
· 4-5 cups milk
· A pinch of saffron threads, soaked in a little hot milk
· 2 tablespoons almond (blanched silvered)
· 2-3 tablespoons sugar or as required
· 1 tablespoon skinned pistachio nuts (chopped)
· 1 tablespoon raisins
Instructions:
· Put rice, cardamom, and milk in a pan and boil.
· Continue boiling until the rice softens and the grains start breaking up.
· Add pistachio, saffron, and almonds into the mixture.
· Add some raisins as well.
· Put some sugar into the mixture and stir well.
· Remove the pan from the heat and let the sweet dish chill for some time before it is served.
Coconut Laddoos: This is one of the Deepavali recipes that may help enhance the festivities of your loved ones.
Ingredients:
· 3 cups shredded coconut
· 1 cup milk
· 2 cups sugar
Instructions:
· Boil the milk in a pan.
· Add 2 cups of coconut into the milk and stir well.
· Reduce the heat and continue cooking until the coconut nearly absorbs the milk.
· Add some sugar and stir the mixture.
· Now cook over medium heat until the mixture leaves the edges of the pan.
· Empty the coconut and milk mixture onto a plate and let it cool.
· Once the mixture cools, make laddoos with it.
· Scatter the remaining 1 cup of coconut on another plate.
· Roll the laddoos in the coconut spread on the plate.
Here’s how you can prepare coconut laddoos!
Other Diwali Recipes
Given below are the recipes other than sweets with which you can satisfy your taste buds during this festive season.
Chicken Korma:
It’s a traditional North Indian recipe that can be served with Peshwari naan and rice pulao.
Ingredients (for 4 servings):
· 2 large chicken breast fillets (skinned and cut into pieces)
· 4 tablespoons chicken stock
· 1 clove garlic (finely chopped)
· 2 tablespoons oil
· 1/2 teaspoon ground ginger
· 1 large onion, sliced and chopped
· 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
· 1/2 teaspoon chili powder
· 4 tablespoons double cream
· 4 tablespoons plain yogurt
· 1/2 teaspoon ground white pepper
· 1/2 teaspoon ground turmeric
· 250g tinned and chopped tomatoes
· 2 tablespoon ground almonds
Instructions:
· Heat some oil in a frying pan.
· Fry chicken, garlic, and onion together and check that the chicken doesn’t remain pink.
· Spread some ginger, cinnamon, and chili powder on the chicken.
· Add turmeric and white pepper and cook over medium heat.
· Add the tomatoes and chicken stock into the mixture.
· Let the mixture simmer for some time and stir it after adding the almonds.
· Add the cream and yogurt and cook the mixture for 2 to 4 minutes before it is served.
Cocktail Koftas:
This is one of the Diwali recipes you can have for snacks as well as dinner.
Ingredients:
· 450 g minced lamb
· 1 teaspoon ground cumin
· 1/2 teaspoon salt
· 1/4 teaspoon garam masala
· 1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper
· 1 teaspoon ground coriander
· 3 tablespoon natural yogurt
· 2 tablespoon finely chopped green coriander
Ingredients for the sauce:
· 5 cloves garlic (peeled)
· 1 teaspoon ground cumin
· 2.5 cm cube ginger (peeled and chopped)
· 1 teaspoon ground coriander
· 1 teaspoon bright red paprika
· 1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper
· 4 tablespoons water and 300ml more
· 2.5 cm cinnamon sticks
· 6 cardamom pods
· 6 cloves
· 5 tablespoons vegetable oil
· 4 tablespoons natural yogurt
· 100 g onions (peeled and finely chopped)
· 1/2 teaspoon salt
· 100g tomatoes (peeled and chopped)
Instructions:
· Combine all the ingredients needed to prepare meatballs.
· Put ginger and garlic into the blender.
· Add 4 tablespoons of water into the blender so as to form a paste.
· Put the ginger and garlic paste in a bowl.
· Add coriander and cumin to the ginger and garlic paste.
· Put some paprika and cayenne into the bowl and stir.
Steps to prepare the sauce
· Put some oil in a heavy frying pan and apply medium heat.
· Put cinnamon, cloves, and cardamom pods into the oil.
· Stir these ingredients for 4 seconds.
· Put some onions into the pan and fry them. Keep stirring the ingredients until they turn reddish-brown.
· Add chopped tomatoes and the paste from the bowl.
· Stir until the mixture turns brown.
· Add yogurt and fry the mixture.
· Put 300 ml water and salt.
· Stir the mixture and let it simmer for some time.
Further instructions to complete the recipe
· Add all the meatballs together into the sauce mixture.
· Reduce the heat and cook for half an hour.
· Continue stirring while the recipe is cooked. Make sure the meatballs don’t break.
· Scrape the bottom of the frying pan so that the sauce doesn’t stick. In case it sticks to the pan, add 1-2 tablespoons of water.
· Stir gently until the sauce clings to the meatballs which turn brown.
· Stick a toothpick into each meatball and serve it to your dear ones.
Here’s how you can cook exciting recipes for your family, friends, and loved ones to add to their festivities on Diwali.