Namak Para | Namak Pare Recipe | Diwali Snacks Recipe

Namak Para, Nimiki, namak paare, or diamond cuts is popular snack or namkeen recipe during Diwali, festivals or even for tea time. I have posted spicy namak paare recipe and now I am posting the most popular version of diamonds cuts (namak para). We make namak para for almost all festival like Diwali/Deepavali, Holi or for travel. It always so easy to prepare and taste delicious, loved by all so namak para makes the most desirable snack for Deepavali.

Chocolate Gulab Jamun | Choco Gulab Jamun Recipe | Diwali Recipe

Chocolate Gulab Jamun , Chocolate stuffed Gulab Jamun or choco jamun with Khoya (kova) what ever we may choose to call but choclate gulab jamun is delicious jamuns with a twist or we can call it Gulab Jamun surprise. And for Diwali these Choco Gulab Jamuns makes perfect sweet to treat family and friends. I made this with khoya using my khoya (mawa) gulab jamun recipe as base but you can also make this using milk powder, use my milk powder gulab jamun recipe for that and stuff chocolates.

Mawa Gujiya | Gujiya (Karanji) Recipe | Diwali Sweets Recipes

Mawa Gujiya , Karanji, Karjikai, Kajjkayalu etc is same name for Gujiya, Diwali, holi  must have sweet in our home is gujiya. Gujiya, namak para, sev is tradition in my parents home for every Diwali/Deepavali and Holi. As I am posting Diwali sweets and snacks recipes now here comes another personal favorite for Diwali Mawa or Khoya Gujiya, this is the authentic gujiya recipe and we love the most and diwali is not complete without some yummy homemade gujiya.

Khara Khaja Recipe | How to make Khara Khaja | Diwali Recipes

Khara Khaja , Khara Khaaja or khaja is delicious snack recipe for Diwali, holi and it's popular in Jain household. This is also known as kadaknya or Kadakani in Maharashtra though made with little difference During Diwali Marwari family will make 3 types of khaja this plain ones, sweet and another one salty and I love all the 3 types of khaja. This Khaja is not the regular sweet khaja that is very famous but it's typie marwari style khaja recipe made with minimal ingredients which makes wonderful tea time snack or have it with aam ka aachar (pickle) and you will love it for sure too.

Garlic Sev Recipe | Lahsun Sev | Diwali Recipes

Garlic Sev , Lahsun Sev or Poondu Sevpodi is easy and delicious snack recipe for Diwali or works great as tea time snack. Garlic Sev is similar to normal sev but here we add fresh garlic to add wonderful garlic flavor to crunchy sev. Diwali is incomplete without sev in my parents home, my mom always use to prepare sev with lot of variation and I continue to do same also.

Gulab Jamun Recipe | Gulab Jamun with Khoya (Kova) | Diwali Recipes

Gulab Jamun , Gulab Jamun with Khoya (kova) has to be most popular Indian dessert in world, big or small for all occasions gulab jamun is perfect sweet to fit the bill. Soft, melt in mouth and sweet these gulab jamun is treat to eat warm, cold or at room temperature. In parents and in-law's place Diwali means Fresh Gulab Jamun has to be in menu and we mostly make on Diwali Day itself so it's warm and fresh to eat. There was so many variety of gulab jamun but the original remains made with khoya or mawa and that is what we going to learn today how to make gulab jamun with khoya.

Namak Para | Savoury Mini Crackers

Namak Para, Nimiki, namak paare, or diamond cuts is popular snack or namkeen recipe during Diwali, festivals or even for tea time. I have posted spicy namak paare recipe and now I am posting the most popular version of diamonds cuts (namak para). We make namak para for almost all festival like Diwali/Deepavali, Holi or for travel. It always so easy to prepare and taste delicious, loved by all so namak para makes the most desirable snack for Deepavali.

Bharwan Tindora Recipe | Bharwa Tendil | Kundru

Bharwa Tindora/Tendil or Stuffed Ivy Gourd is easy yet delicious way to cook Ivy Gourd or Tindora/Tendil or kundru or Kovaikai where split tindora is stuffed with mix of aromatic spices and cooked until tender. I find simple bharwan recipes always so interesting as it's always easy and quick to prepare, taste delicious plus takes the meal to top notch. I have posted bharwan bindi, besan wali bindi which is stuffed Okra and next in times comes this very delicious bharwan kundru or tendil.

Chivda Recipe | Poha Chivda | Chiwda | Diwali Snacks Recipes

Chivda, Poha chivda or poha namkeen is easy mixture made with thin poha variety is popular snack for Diwali and also for tea time. The one snack I make the most is chivda as DH loves this and normally I always make fresh since it like it when it's hot. Only for Diwali I make in large batch and store, and poha chivda also stays good for almost a month so it makes a great healthy snack for time time or snack for Diwali If you look for healthy snack for diwali then you should try this.

Falahari Aloo Tamatar Sabzi | Potato Tomato Curry | Navratri Vrat Recipes

Vrat Wale Aloo Tamatar Sabzi is quick fasting (vrat/upwas/navratri) recipe which makes excellent side dish with vrat (navratri) ka khana like kuttu cheela, singhara cheela, singhara poori, samvat pulao or khichdi. This is my go recipe whether it's fasting day or not, I follow same procedure to make this aloo tamatar sabzi during non-fasting days too just add normal table salt instead of sendha namak, as this sabzi goes well with roti, poori, pulav too.

Kuttu Ka Cheela (Chilla) | Navratri Vrat Recipes

Kuttu atta cheelais quick fasting (vrat/upwas/navratri) recipe, kuttu cheela/dosa is ideal vrat (navratri) ka khana and taste yum if you like kuttu atta. This cheela is real treasure recipe which is of course very simple since most of us won't prefer to have every day during fasting. Not only during fasting we can make kuttu atta (buckwheat flour) cheela any day for breakfast as it’s quite filling, healthy, vegan and gluten-free.

Falahari Dahiwale Kaddu Sabzi | Kaddu Sabzi | Navratri Vrat Recipes

Falahari Dahiwale Kaddu Sabzi, Kaddu ki sabzi or dahiwale kaddu is easy and yummy curry suitable for falahari or fasting If you look for something easy, quick and easy side dish then this is for you as this sabzi taste just too good, not only for fasting but we can make this during normal days too to serve with anything of our choice.

Chana Dal Pakora | Chana Dal Bhajiya | Kadalai Paruppu Baaji Recipe

Chana Dal Pakora, Dal pakoda or Bengal Gram fritters are easy pakora recipe with chana dal, besan, spice and adding little onion for crunch. Another great snack for tea time, it works great as appetizer for get-together or party too. This chana dal pakoda is similar to Masala Vade I just added besan (chickpeas flour), rice flour to make this into pakoda, it's super yum.

Punjabi Chicken Curry Recipe | Chicken Curry Recipe

Punjabi Chicken Curry, chicken curry is delicious , easy chicken curry in Punjabi style with fresh spices and yogurt. There are many recipes and variations of making chicken in Punjabi style and this is one of them and it's very easy and quick with basic ingredients. To continue the Sunday Non-Vegetarian Recipes Series this is the 7 entry.

Paneer Bread Dahi Vada | Bread Dahi Bhalla Recipe

Paneer Bread Dahi Vada or paneer stuffed bread dahi vada or dahi bhallas are easy and quick snack option. It's very easy and can be done in jiffy plus it's guilt free as we didn't deep fry the vada. If you look for something easy yet filling specially as after school snack then this is really good recipe and as Holi is approaching I wanted to share this easy bread dahi vada recipe now since dahi bhalla in Holi is must :)

Murunga Dal Recipe | Drumstick Dal | Murungakkai Paruppu

Murunga Dal or Murungakkai Paruppu, Drumstick Dal is easy dal made with drumstick. This dal recipe is very good specially for people whom doesn't like tamarind so doesn't eat sambar. This sahjan dhal recipe is from my in-laws, there they make dal with drumstick and of course not sambar. When I posted drumstick sambar in that post I did talk about this dal and how I want to share the recipe which is finally happening now.

Chicken Potato Curry Recipe | Chicken Curry

Chicken Potato Curry, chicken aloo curry is easy, delicious chicken curry which makes great side dish rice or even paratha. This recipe is from my sister-in-law, she mostly add potato with chicken while making it which makes that curry delicious and also few of us focus more on potato than the chicken ;) For the people whom doesn't eat chicken but doesn't mind the potato looked with chicken this recipes works best as you don't have to make two separate dishes.

Apple Halwa Recipe | Seb Sheera | Easy Halwa Recipe

Apple Halwa, seb halwa or seb sheera is easy, delicious halwa made with minimal ingredients and this halwa taste so yum and guess what it's made from only 1/2 tsp ghee and less than 2 tbsp of sugar, of course sugar quantity depends on how sweet you like. Not only during normal days but we can also make this apple halwa for fasting or vrat too or if you look for quick dessert then this apple halwa fits the bill perfectly.

Broccoli Beetroot Cutlets | Broccoli Beetroot Tikki | Easy Snacks Recipes

Broccoli Beetroot Cutlet or broccoli beetroot tikki, beetroot broccoli patties is easy, delicious, healthy and vegan snack for tea time or for kids lunch/snack box. We can also serve this as starter or finger food during party or get-together. This is one of the most easy and delicious cutlet plus very healthy as I have just pan-fried here. We can do this cutlet with many variations to try something new every time. I lost the step by step pictures so there's no for this time, shall try to update some time that.

Sama Chawal Kheer | Samvat Rice Kheer | Kuthiraivali Payasam | Navratri Fasting Recipes

Falahari Sama Chawal Kheer , Samvat Rice Kheer or Swang Kheer, Kuthiravali Arisi Payasam, falahari kheer is made from sama chawal also known in English as Barnyard Millets, Kuthiravali in Tamil, Udalu in Telugu, Shyama in Bengali, Khira in Oriya, Swank in Punjabi, Kavadapullu in Malayalam, Oodalu in Kannada plus other names for Samwat chawal are bhagar, varai chawal, vari chawal,saanwa, saunfiya, samkiye, swang, samvat.