Diwali (Deepavali), the Indian festival of lights is all about Diwali special dishes and delicious homemade Diwali sweets and puddings. During this auspicious occasion try out few tasty sweets and desserts at home and surprise your family and friends.
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Let not the festival of lights, blight your eating habits, making you binge on fried and sweet foods. Drink lots of water, have regular meals and fruits.
Let not the festival of lights, blight your eating habits, making you binge on fried and sweet foods. Drink lots of water, have regular meals and fruits.
‘Diwali (Deepavali), the Indian festival of lights is all about Diwali special dishes and delicious homemade Diwali sweets and puddings. During this auspicious occasion try out few tasty sweets and desserts such as muhalabiya, sticky dates pudding and coconut tofu macarons at home and surprise your family and friends.’
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Muhalabiya
Ingredients: 2.5 litre milk, 330 gm of castor sugar, 160 ml rose water, 180 gm corn flour.
Healthy Eating During Diwali
For healthy eating during the festival of lights use fiber rich foods. It is possible to make low calorie Diwali sweet recipes and healthy snacks using the right ingredients.
For healthy eating during the festival of lights use fiber rich foods. It is possible to make low calorie Diwali sweet recipes and healthy snacks using the right ingredients.
How to Make: In a heavy bottomed saucepan, bring the milk and sugar to a boil. Once it comes to a boil add the rose water and corn flour. Stir the mixture until it thickens. Once it thickens, pour it in a Martini glass. Garnish it with roasted and chopped pistachio flakes, almond flakes and dried rose petals.
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Celebrate a safe Diwali with festivities, make your Diwali special for yourself, your family and your friends
Celebrate a safe Diwali with festivities, make your Diwali special for yourself, your family and your friends
Ingredients: 220 gm butter, 650 gm castor sugar, 440 gm egg whole, 650 gm date paste, 700 ml water, 650 gm flour, 30 gm baking soda.
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Healthy Gifting Ideas for Diwali
Diwali, the festival of lights is round the corner. Take a fat free route when it comes to gifting this Diwali. Go the untraditional way and gift your near and dear ones with the gift of health.
Diwali, the festival of lights is round the corner. Take a fat free route when it comes to gifting this Diwali. Go the untraditional way and gift your near and dear ones with the gift of health.
How to Make: In a planetary mixer, cream butter and sugar together. Boil the date paste and water together until combined as a paste, add the whole eggs to the butter and sugar mixture. Once creamed, add the date paste mixture to the above. In the end, fold in the flour and baking soda to the mixture. Pour into greased molds and bake at 180 degree Celsius until cooked.
For the Caramel Sauce: Caramelise the sugar until golden color, put the cream into this mixture and stir. At the end add butter to this mixture, whisk until combined. Pour caramel sauce over date cake and garnish with almond flakes.
Coconut Tofu Macarons:
Ingredients: 4 egg whites, salt, half vanilla bean seeds scraped out, 150 gm Acacia honey, 1 drop bitter almond oil, 65 gm silken white tofu mashed, 200 gm coconut desiccated and 80 gm honey blackberry jam.
Method: Line a baking tray with parchment paper. Pre-heat the oven at 210 degrees Celsius. Whisk the egg whites with a pinch of salt, almond oil, and the vanilla seeds until firm. Cook the honey in a small pot for around 3 minutes.
Gradually add the hot honey into the egg whites while continue whisking. Then carefully fold under the tofu and coconut, do not stir too much to retain the foamy texture.
Transfer the dough with two teaspoons in dollops (size of a walnut) onto the parchment paper on the baking tray. Make a small whole in each cookie and fill it with a little bit of jam. Close the dough over the jam. Bake for 10-15 minutes at 210 degrees Celsius. The biscuits can be kept in a box and a cool and dry place for up to 3 days.
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