Maha Shivratri recipes. What sweets and desserts could you prepared? Which type of recipes is being prepared during this auspicious day? It has been believed that during this day Shiva and Parvati got married. This auspicious day is celebrated on the 13th or 14th day s day of the Krishna Paksha of the Indian month of Phalguna (Falgun).
Recipes could include sweet recipes, desserts, or main course or snack recipes. To kind of collect some ideas on what to cook on this very auspicious Bhole Nath day, I brought some of the ideas on what to cook during this fasting day.
Maha Shivratri 2022 is on 1st March i.e Tuesday. It is a Hindu festival that falls just before the occurrence of the “New moon”. During this day Lord shivas idols are being worshipped and offered puja thali with sweets and desserts by their devotees and believers. Prayers are being performed following the traditional rituals for well-being.
What Sweets could be prepared?
Traditionally Malpua, black til ladoos, and Vrat special wheat are being used to prepare sweets. Rice/regular cereals, green vegetables, and lentils are not consumed during this day. Especially devotees are following these rituals during their fasting on this Maha Shivratri. A few of the sweets and desserts ideas are listed below. Find their full recipes linked with the recipes.
1. Sabudana dessert
Sabudana sweet or dessert recipe is an extremely easy and delicious recipe. The 3 main ingredients used to prepare this recipe are Sabunaba i.e Sago, sugar, desiccated coconut, and cardamom powder. Orange food color is being added to the sweet to make it look to bring a bright bold color which gives it a perfect sweet and could be enjoyed during any festivals or shared with friends and family. It looks appealing and tastes delicious. Find more delicious Desserts and easy sweet recipes in this blog.
Points to remember~
Let Sabudana soak in water overnight or for more hours for the best result. Also, If soaking them for more than 24 hours then place these in the refrigerator completely dipped in the water.
Once nicely soaked in the water you will see the granules looks fluffy and easily break once pressed by the fingertips.
Find the full recipe here at Sabudana Sweet recipe. Sabudana dessert recipe (sonalichoudhury.com)
2. Coconut Ladoos with Jaggery
Coconut Ladoo recipe with jaggery is not only very delicious but also considered healthy as well. It requires no prior practice to prepare. Could be easily and quickly prepared at home anytime. It hardly took me around 15 to 20 minutes to prepare these Coconut jaggery ladoos.
The key ingredients for these coconut ladoos are freshly shredded coconut, jaggery, and some ground cardamom seeds that’s it. Let’s quickly jump into the recipe. Find the full recipe at Coconut Ladoo recipe with jaggery (sonalichoudhury.com)
3. Sooji Halwa
Pineapple and Sooji Halwa. Pineapples and semolina sweet or a dessert recipe are prepared using freshly chopped pineapples cooked in water and sugar mixture until soft. And then mixed with sautéed semolina along with some clarified butter.
These turn out very aromatic and taste delicious. Served and garnished with ground toasted pistachios and almonds.
The simplest and easiest semolina sweets/dessert recipe looks gorgeous when served.
For the tip, the light green color of the ground pistachios mixed with some ground almonds compliments the sweets and also enhances the taste and flavor of these because of their slightly salty taste which works great. Find the full recipe here at Pineapple and Sooji Halwa. Pineapples and semolina sweet or dessert rec (sonalichoudhury.com)
4. Coconut Ladoos with Milk
These ladoos are made with grated coconut and milk. Easy and quick to prepare. The ingredients used are milk, freshly grated coconut, sugar, ground cardamom, and Ghee(Clarified butter).
These famous Indian sweets are loaded with coconut flavor which is real yum. I personally love these and enjoy making them during special occasions specially during Indian festivals. Let’s quickly check out the recipe below. Find out more easy dessert recipes in this blog.
Find the full recipe here at Milky Coconut Ladoos (sonalichoudhury.com)
5. Mango Kalakand
Mango Kalakand easy recipe. Soft chewy and delicious. This is prepared by using milk, sugar, ripe mango pulp, cardamom, and grated paneer.
This is not only delicious but healthy too. The flavor of sweet mango pulp when mixed with grated paneer and cooked with milk and sugar it tastes heavenly.
Looks beautiful when garnished with dry fruits and nuts.
Find the full recipe here at Mango Kalakand an easy recipe. Soft chewy and delicious (sonalichoudhury.com)
6. Beetroot Halwa
Beetroot Halwa is creamy and delicious. Quick and easy to prepare. The main ingredients are grated beetroot, milk, khoya, ghee, sugar, and cardamom powder. Any dry nuts you may add to it to make it richer in nutrition and taste. Its bright red in color and taste simply amazing
Find the full recipe here at Beetroot halwa. Creamy and delicious. (sonalichoudhury.com)
7. sooji (semolina) malpua
MALPUA. Shallow fried. Very Easy and tasty authentic sweet recipe which is being prepared by women for ages.
This sweet is extremely easy to prepare at home and tastes delicious. Usually, these are being deep-fried but since I tried out the shallow frying method and it turned out well, I thought to share.
These are prepared using only All-purpose flour, sugar, and fennel seeds as the main key ingredients but in this recipe, I have added semolina (sooji) and desiccated coconut to prepare the pua i.e the sweet puree. Though there are many other ways as well. Find the full recipe here at Malpua recipe. Shallow fried. Easy and tasty sweet recipe (sonalichoudhury.com)
8. Sooji Halwa
Semolina dessert/ Aromatic and tasty Sooji Halwa recipe. Colorful and tasty dessert recipe. Perfect texture and looks beautiful when served. Navratri special. Perfect for any Festivals or special occasions. Watch the full video on YouTube at GreatFoodIdeas. Thanks for being part of GreatFoodIdeas. Thank you for visiting. Find more Sweets and Dessert recipes in this blog.
Directions to prepare
Dry-roast 1 cup of semolina into a pan for 3 to 4 minutes keeping the flame at the lowest. Keep aside and into another pan sauté some 2 tablespoons of cashews, and 2 tablespoons of almonds in 2 tablespoons of ghee/clarified butter. When these turn slightly golden in color, take them out. Put the semolina back to the heat and add the leftover clarified butter that is being used for frying the dry nuts into it.
Then add in some extra around 2 tablespoons of more Ghee/Clarified butter into it and continuously stir and cook for 2 minutes. Add 2 cups of milk gradually followed by 1 cup of water. Give it a mix and Immediately add 1/2 of the sugar from 1 cup and mix. Once mixed well add 1/2 teaspoon of cardamom powder and 1/4 teaspoon of Kesar (saffron) into it and mix and cook few minutes. Find the full recipe here at Sooji Halwa. Semolina dessert. Aromatic and colorful sooji halwa recipe (sonalichoudhury.com)
9. Fruit cream
Fruit cream is a dessert that includes more or less freshly chopped fruits mixed with light sweet cream. Healthy and a quick dessert recipe. Very easy to prepare at home. You just need a few of the favorite fruits that you want to enjoy or you may simply use that is available to you. Simply peel the skin of the fruits of any form eg like if you are using apples, you may peel the skin as I prefer to do because I want it to be very soft and juicy apple bites coated with light sweet cream
I hope you will surely enjoy this way of preparing the fruit cream. So let’s get started with the recipe. Find the full recipe here at Fruit cream. Thick creamy and delicious. Healthy dessert recipe. (sonalichoudhury.com)
10. Mango sweet
Ripe Mango sweet with Almonds is made using a few Ripe mangoes
, Almond flour, powdered sugar, cornstarch, milk, cardamom powder, and some clarified butter. Garnished with some ground pistachios and whole almonds. Very easy to prepare. A soft and tasty treat for any special occasion or as an at-home, after-meal dessert. Look gorgeous and full of real mango flavor. Let’s quickly check out the recipe below along with a YouTube video attached below.
Ingredients required
- 1 and half cups of mango pulp paste
- 1/4 cup + 4 teaspoons powdered sugar
- 4 teaspoons of Cornstarch mixed in 1/4 cup of water
- 1 teaspoon Cardamom powder
- 1/2 cup Almond flour
- 2 tablespoons of milk
- 1 teaspoon of clarified butter
- Pistachios ground form to roll the sweets
- Few whole almonds required for decorating the sweets
Find the full recipe here at Ripe Mango Sweet with Almonds. Mango Dessert easy to make at home (sonalichoudhury.com)
11. Malai Chom Chom
Easy and quick Malai Chom Chom. Rasgulla sponge malai chom chom. Milk powder kesar malai sweet. Amazing dessert. This is a spongy rasgullas malai chom chom or chum chum recipe or says Malai chop. Super creamy in texture. Simply melts in the mouth. This is prepared using soft chenna as the main ingredient and followed by kneading and then cooking these in boiling water for about 10 minutes.
Cook time
Cooking time depends on the size of the chenna balls as well. The key point is to understand that once these increase in size. I mean when these double in size these are done. You should turn off the flame immediately and let them cool. After boiling transfer these into the hot sugar syrup for an hour minimum. Finally pour up amazing milk Kesar milk malai on the top with some of your favorite dry nuts.
To give it a stunning look add some colorful tutti-fruity in the center of it. Looks beautiful when served. You may decorate these with some fresh half-cut cherries as well.
To prepare Chenna balls for the rasgullas we need
- Whole milk 8 cups
- White vinegar 5 tablespoons mixed with 5 tablespoons of water
- For cooking the chenna balls we need sufficient plain water to boil these for 10 minutes
Find the full recipe here at Malai Chom Chom. Easy and quick Malai chom chom recipe (sonalichoudhury.com)
Why People Celebrate Mahashivratri?
It is a Hindu festival when Lord Shiva devotees go on fasting and worshipping shiva by chanting his name as “Om Namah Shivaya”
Food Ingredients prefered to be used during Shivaratri
- Sabudana,
- Semolina,
- Kand (purple yam),
- Vrat special wheat for example buckwheat, and
- Dry nuts,
- Sweet potatoes,
- Curd,
- Milk,
- Fresh fruits are prefered.
IngrEDIENTS that are not allowed DURING MAHASHIVRATRI
- Rice
- Lentils (dhals)
- Wheat Flour (except the vrat special flour)
- No green vegetables (like spinach, peas, beans, bhindi, Bitter guard (karela), Bottle guard
- Onions
- Garlic
Mahashivratri traditional Drinks
- Yogurt drinks like chaas or light sweet lassi, mango or any fruit lassi is a great option to choose from.
Desserts
- Sweet payasam or kheer without rice
- Kesar kulfi or shrikhand or malai rabri is a great option to choose from.
Main course recipes for Mahashivratri
Khichri made with buckwheat or sabudana could be prepared or desserts using these two ingredients could be prepared as well which should be fulfilling.
How is Mahashivratri’s fast is broken?
On Maha Shivratri day the devotees visit the shiva temple along with their puja thali which includes milk, Ganga Jal, and ghee to give bathe to the shiv ling, along with some flowers, bel Patta (Bilva Patra, and datura fruit. After they give bathe to shiva’s pind with ghee, milk, and Ganga Jal they offer ghee Niranjan in the temple, and then the next day the fast is broken.
MAHA SHIVRATRI INDIAN Drinks you may enjoy during fasting
1. Rose Yogurt Drink
Yogurt Drink or Lassi with rose flavor and color is a refreshing drink, quick and easy to prepare. This Yogurt drink is made with whole milk yogurt, sugar, and rose syrup i.e Roohafza as the main ingredients. Roohafza is a rose syrup that could be easily found in stores or online. Since it is red in color it adds up beauty and flavor into the drink by giving it a nice and beautiful pink “Rose” color that I personally like.
Find out more drinks and beverages in this blog. Click on the link below to find the full recipe
2. Almond Milk
Almond Milk Recipe is Nutritious and easy to prepare. You can prepare this at home anytime. Adding different flavors makes it more special and could be enjoyed the ways you like.
This is a dairy-free alternative you may consume as a healthy drink or use to prepare other things you want. For example, prepare smoothies using this almond milk instead of using dairy products.
Preparing Almond milk at home can surely save you money and help those who are allergic to animal dairy products. It is an easy alternative to cow’s milk. Find the full recipe here at Almond Milk (sonalichoudhury.com)