Top 7 Healthy & Easy Navratri Recipes

Top 7 Healthy and Easy Navratri Recipes You Must Try

Many people fast during navratri and end up gorging on deep-fried snacks in the name of fasting that significantly adds up calories without bringing satiety. While having them once here and there isn’t a problem, but fasting essentially means eating less.

So, basically when you eat less, you have to be very strategic about your food choices to avoid unnecessary binge episodes. Therefore, we have tried to ensure a good amount of protein & fiber in all navratri recipes that will bring satiety & keep you full for longer.

Detailed list of foods allowed during Navratri (along with their macronutrient composition) can be viewed here.

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1. Amaranth (Rajgira) Dalia

Serves – 1 Person

Ingredients, Quantity, Macro Nutrients & Calorie Information –

Recipe Instructions –

1. In a pan, boil milk on high flame.
2. Add Amaranth/Rajgira seeds as soon as it starts to boil.
3. Bring the flame to low/medium and let it cook for about 15-20 minutes. Amaranth grain/seeds take longer to cook than similar grains such as millets.
4. Add sugar & spices (cinnamon or cardamom) for flavor at this time.
5. Keep mixing meanwhile using a spoon or spatula.
6. It will slowly start to thicken and shut the gas once the desired consistency is achieved.
7. Serve in a bowl and garnish with seeds, nuts or any nut butter of choice, some dried fruits such as raisins, dates, etc.

2. Kuttu (Buckwheat) Cheela

Serves – 1 Person

Ingredients, Quantity, Macro Nutrients & Calorie Information –

Recipe Instructions –

1. Add kuttu atta (buckwheat flour), salt & spices to a bowl.
2. Add water – about 2.5 times the weight of kuttu.
3. Keep mixing using a spoon & check for desired consistency. If needed, add more water.
4. Add finely chopped vegetables to the batter and mix again for a few seconds.
5. Apply ghee on a tawa and spread the batter. Keep the flame on low/medium. Cover & cook.f. It will take about 4-5 minutes to cook from one side. Meanwhile, if needed add some more ghee to prevent the batter from sticking on the tawa.
6. Once cooked, flip and let it cook from the other side the same way.
7. Serve with curd/dahi.

3. Dahi Makhana Chat

Serves – 1 Person

Ingredients, Quantity, Macro Nutrients & Calorie Information –

Recipe Instructions –

1. Add roasted makhana in a bowl. If not roasted, just dry roast them on a low flame for 10-15 minutes, make a batch and store in a container after it cools down.
2. Then add any medium boiled potato, fruit, 40g paneer cuber, 200g curd/dahi.
3. Add salt, spices & ketchup for flavor.
4. Mix & serve.

4. Samak (Barnyard Millet) Pulao

Serves – 1 Person

Ingredients, Quantity, Macro Nutrients & Calorie Information –

Recipe Instructions –

1. Wash & soak samak in 2.5 times water in a bowl.
2. Meanwhile wash peas & potato.
3. In a cooker, add ghee and keep it on medium flame.
4. Once hot, add some cumin seeds & green chilli. Let them splutter.
5. Add potato & peas followed by salt, red pepper, black pepper & garam masala.
6. Mix well and let this cook on medium flame for about 3-4 minutes. If needed, add some water.
7. Then, add soaked millets along with the same water used for soaking.
8. Mix, Cook for another minute, close the lid of cooker, turn the flame to high for one whistle and simmer for next 5 minutes.
9. Let the steam release and serve with curd.

5. Singhada (Chestnut flour) tikki

Serves – 1 Person

Ingredients, Quantity, Macro Nutrients & Calorie Information –

Recipe Instructions –

1. Mash a boiled potato in a big plate.
2. Add chestnut flour & crushed paneer, salt, red pepper, garam masala.
3. Mix & knead to make a dough. Apply some ghee to hands if it gets sticky.
4. Once the dough is ready, make two disc-shaped portions.
5. Apply ghee on tawa/pan,
6. Keep the flame to low/medium and let the tikkis cook from one side for about 4-5 min. If needed, apply some ghee over tikki using a brush. Browning will indicate that it’s cooked.
7. Flip the tikki and let it cook from the other side for the same duration.
8. Serve in a plate along with curd, season with some salt & black pepper, & some ketchup.

6. Kuttu (buckwheat) peanut balls

Serves – 1 Person

Ingredients, Quantity, Macro Nutrients & Calorie Information –

Recipe Instructions –

1. In a pan add ghee & roast kuttu atta (buckwheat flour) for about 10 minutes on low flame.
2. Keep mixing using a spatula to avoid any burn. Once done, turn off the gas and let it cool down.
3. Meanwhile, blend jaggery, coconut chunks & peanut butter 2-3 times in bursts of 10 seconds.
4. Add roasted kuttu atta to the blender and do bursts of 10 secs again for 2-3 times until you see a good enough consistency for binding the mixture together.
5. Remove in a plate and make 9-30g laddoos to serve as a snack for all 9 days of Navratri.

7. Nutty Makhana Laddoo

Serves – 1 Person

Ingredients, Quantity, Macro Nutrients & Calorie Information –

Recipe Instructions –

1. First blend roasted makhana into a coarse powder.
2. Then add dates, seeds & nuts to the mixer.
3. Blend 3-4 times in bursts of 10 seconds until desired consistency is achieved.
4. Remove in a plate and make 9-30g laddoos to serve as a snack for all 9 days of Navratri.