Healthy Sweets for Diwali
Diwali, the festival of lights, seems incomplete without sweets. After this, a lot of sweets come to the house on Govardhan Puja and Bhai Dooj also. It is important to celebrate, but along with celebration, it is also important to take care of health. Eating too many sweets can make you tired as well as laziness, because it increases blood sugar. People who have diabetes need to take even more care. White sugar and oil are also used extensively in market sweets. Apart from this, things like synthetic colors, spoiled mawa are also harmful. In this article, you will learn about ten types of sweets which will double the fun of your festival and will also be healthy.
Diwali Lakshmi puja will be performed on 20th October. After this, Govardhan Puja and Bhai Dooj festival will be celebrated on 23rd October. On all these festivals, along with spicy, oily food, spicy snacks also come and if you eat a lot of sugary sweets along with it, it can cause harm to your health. Let’s see 10 home made healthy sweets.
Date-nut laddus
Instead of sugar, dates are a great option for sweetness. The sweetness of dates and the crunchiness of nuts make laddus taste amazing. Apart from taste, they are also rich in proteins, vitamins and minerals. Separate the seeds of dates and grind them and then roast almonds, walnuts, cashews, pistachios, peanuts, sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds, water millon seeds, magaj seeds in desi ghee. After grinding all these things coarsely, mix them with ground dates and after applying desi ghee on your hands, prepare laddus.
No-Bake Greek Yogurt Fruit Tart
This is a great dish which controls your sweet cravings and also remains healthy. Take out the seeds of dates soaked in water along with cashews and almonds and grind them. After this, put it in a cake pan to make a layer and press it with the help of a spatula. Now make a layer of Greek yogurt on top of it, then garnish with chopped strawberries and some different tropical fruits.
Peanut Butter Oatmeal Bar
This is a baking dish. To make this, mash banana in a bowl, add milk, peanut butter and vanilla to it. After this, add oats, baking powder, oat flour, baking soda and a little cinnamon powder in another bowl. Now mix both the things together and add chocolate tips or crushed nuts on top. Bake it in the oven.
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Chocolate Almond Truffles
Children will also like these on Diwali. Almonds and chocolate are an amazing combination which is not only healthy but also tasty. Heat the crummy in a saucepan until bubbles begin to form. After this, chop the chocolate finely with the help of a sharp knife and put it in a bowl. Pour hot cream over it and leave it for a while, so that the chocolate will melt. Mix both and make it creamy. Now coat the almonds in it and set it.
Have fruit custard for dessert
You can make fruit custard for dessert. There is a lot of sweetness in it due to the custard powder itself, hence there is no need of much sugar. Custard made with lots of different tropical fruits will also give you nutrients.
Banana Mug Cake
This cake, which is prepared in minutes, is also healthy. Mash the banana and add some brown sugar, milk and vanilla essence to it. Add two to three spoons of grain flour as per requirement. After this put it in a mug and microwave it. Garnish it with choco chips and serve.
No Sugar, Coconut-Mawa Laddu
Chop nuts like almonds, walnuts, cashews etc. and fry them in desi ghee until they become crispy. Now take fresh mawa and heat it in the pan while stirring continuously, until it starts turning a little brown (take homemade khoya). Now grate the coconut and roast it. Mix all the ingredients and make laddus or freeze barfi. Mawa tastes delicious even without sugar, so you will not need to add sugar.
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Try Chia Chocolate Pudding
Chia seeds are rich in nutrients, so you can try Chia Chocolate Pudding as a healthy dessert on Diwali, which will not take much time to prepare and tastes amazing.
Make bottle gourd barfi
Bottle gourd is also an amazing vegetable in terms of nutrients and it is not heavy to digest. You can make bottle gourd barfi on Diwali, in which you can also use mawa. Add some grinded dates for sweetness and prepare delicious barfi with nuts and raisins.
make rabri without sugar
Rabdi made from milk is a favorite of most people, but a lot of sugar is added to it in the market. This is such a sweet which requires patience to make. Keep milk in a wide mouthed heavy pan to heat. Cook it on low flame and remove the cream that appears on it every time. In this way, gradually the milk will start thickening and granular rabri is ready.