Diwali Snack platter

Diwali is here and its time to celebrate with sweets and savouries. It is also a time to pray for prosperity and good health. We may have a subdued festivities. However, we can still gorge on mithai and namkeen. No festival is complete without sweets and savouries. It is time to celebrate with immediate family. Here is a collection of Diwali snacks that you can make easily at home.

Read the  Diwali snacks platter below:

• Paneer Pakoda: Can you ever go wrong with paneer and pakoras? Cottage cheese fritters make an awesome snack for tea-time any day. Filled with protein and umami!

• Batata vada/Aloo bonda: Batata vada or aloo bada/aloo bonda is a yummy starter. Spicy

boiled potato stuffed into a chickpea flour coating and fried to perfection. This is both vegan and gluten-free.Serve it with mint and date chutneys and ladi pav homemade buns,to make an awesome vada pav.

• Bread pakoda: Have some potato masala left over, add some bread and make yummy bread fritters. You may even make it with just a slice.

 

• Mirchi bada : Jodhpuri Mirchi vada combines the heat of Bhavnagari mirch/ desi jalapenos in a chickpea flour casing perfectly.

• Baked vegan samosa: Samosa or sambosa is our Indian signature dish. Make it better by baking it instead of frying. Yes, health and taste can go together!

• Dahi vada: Dahi vada is the fried lentil donuts served with yogurt and spicy green chutney and tangy date/tamarind chutney. Perfect to complete your festive thali.

• Moong dal kachori : Moong dal kachori with aloo ki sabzi makes it a perfect dish for Diwali brunch. Serve it with chutneys if you want to eat it at tea-time.
  

 

• Vegetable puffs: No  one can get over vegetable puff pastry. Fill the filling of your choice and enjoy it at tea-time.

• Khasta kachori - No potatoes at home? no problem. Make this dry khasta lentil kachori full of flavor.

• Murruku/chakli/chakoli - Butter chakli,tomato chakoli,mint chakri. Reminds you of chakri crackers .This spicy crisp murukku  is the base of all the above recipes. Let it come alive in the  brown rice version.

• Diet chivda: Roasted trail mix consisting of nuts, rice and corn flakes and spices. Roasted on a cast iron pan with no oil, but only salt.

• Achari mathri - Spicy Indian crackers which re-use the left-over oil and spice mix of pickle. This can be made without the masala too. It is extremely yummy and lasts quite long in an air-tight jar like chakli and chiwda.

Chutneys and Dips for starters

• Hari Chutney- Spicy green chutney which goes with every Indian starter. Coriander and Mint fresh!

 

• Dates chutney -Tangy and sweet iron rich dip which is vegan too. You may replace dates with tamarind pulp.

• Tomato ketchup: Good old tomato ketchup without added sugar and preservatives.No more worries!

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