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4 Delicious Diwali recipes for kids they’d love

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Ingredients

Recipe 1 - for Sabudana Wada

  • 7 medium boiled potatoes
  • 1 cup sabudana Soaked for 3 to 4 hours and strain (Sago seeds)
  • 1 tsp red chilly powder
  • 1 tsp garam masala
  • salt to taste
  • 2 tsp dry mango powder (aamchur)
  • 2 tsp dhaniya powder
  • 1/4th cup roasted and coarsely ground peanuts
  • 2 tsp finely chopped green chillies
  • 1 tbsp ginger paste
  • 1 tbsp finely chopped fresh coriander
  • 2 tbsp corn flour or 3 to 4 tbsp bread crumbs
  • Oil for frying

      • Recipe 2 - for Aloo ki sabji

      • 5 to 6 medium potatoes cut into bigger pieces
      • 2 medium tomatoes
      • 1 green chilly
      • 1 tbsp fresh ginger
      • 1 tsp jeera
      • 1 tsp haldi
      • 2 tsp dhaniya (coriander) powder
      • Red chilly powder to taste
      • 1 tsp garam masala
      • 2 tsp launji masala (optional) - available in Delhi and around
      • salt to taste
      • 2 tsp ghee
      • 1.5 cups water
      • 1 tbsp chopped fresh coriander

          • Recipe for Bedmi poori

          • 1 cup soaked and coarsely ground urad dal (3 hrs)
          • 2.5 cups whole wheat flour (coarsely ground atta works best)
          • 1/2 tsp hing (I use SSP hing)
          • 1 tsp red chilly powder
          • 2 tsp dhaniya powder
          • 2 tsp saunf powder
          • 1.5 tsp garam masala
          • salt to taste
          • water
          • Oil for frying

              • Recipe 3 - for Kesar badam kulfi

              • 1 litre full cream milk
              • 1/2 cup fresh cream (preferably from milk used at home)
              • 1 tin condensed milk
              • 2 tbsp sliced almonds
              • 6 to 8 strands of kesar
              • 2 tsp cardamom powder
              • 2 tbsp sugar

                  • Recipe 4 - for coconut sooji laddoos

                  • 1 cup Wheat sooji
                  • 1 cup dry shredded coconut
                  • 1 tin condensed milk
                  • 2 to 3 tsp cardamom or elaichi powder
                  • 1/4 cup almond powder
                  • 1/2 cup raisins

Welcome the Diwali season with these delectable sweet and savoury items. Your children will absolutely relish them.

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One of the best things about festivals is the lights and colours they bring into your homes. And of course, the food! Don’t forget the ultimate joy that comes from digging into a satisfying plate of pooris or a yummy gulab jamun! Are you hungry yet?

These 4 Diwali recipes for kids will make your festival that much sweeter! Choose from two sweet and two savoury dishes lovingly put together, just for you.

Recipe for Sabudana wada – Appetiser

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Preparation Steps

  • Mash potatoes well, add all the ingredients and mix well. Make sure sabudana is well strained as water content will make the wadas splatter in oil. The trick is to strain it 30 to 40 mins before mixing.
  • Make small flattened rounds and fry until golden brown.
  • Serve with mint coriander chutney.

Preparation time: 15 – 20 mins |  Cooking time: 30 mins | Serves: 15 pcs 

Recipe for Aloo bedmi (dal poori) – Main course

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Recipe for Aloo ki sabji

Preparation Steps

  1. Puree tomatoes, green chilly and ginger.
  2. Heat ghee in a cooker, add jeera and launji ka masala and puree.
  3. Add haldi, red chilly powder, dhaniya powder and let the gravy cook until ghee separates.
  4. Add potatoes, salt and water and pressure cook it for 5-7 mins at medium flame.
  5. Let the cooker cool down. Add fresh coriander and dhaniya and mix well. Can gently break the potatoes to get tangier taste.

Preparation time: 10 mins |  Cooking time: 10 mins | Serves: 3 

Recipe for Bedmi poori

Preparation Steps

  1. Strain whole water from urad dal and grind it coarsely.
  2. Add all the spices in dal and knead it with whole wheat flour to make medium consistency dough (one you make for pooris) .
  3. Make flat small rounds (not to thin) and fry each bedmi at medium flame until golden brown. As dal is added it needs little bit more frying.

Enjoy hot bedmi with aloo ki sabji.

Preparation time: 20 mins |  Cooking time: 15 – 20  mins | Serves: 10 – 12 pcs

Recipe for Kesar badam kulfi – Dessert

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Preparation Steps

  1. In a kadhai (I use steel induction kadhai), cook milk and cream at low flame for 30 mins. Keep stirring it to avoid milk sticking on sides.
  2. Add kesar, condensed milk and simmer it for another 10 mins.
  3. Add almonds, sugar and cardamom powder and mix it well.
  4. Let it cool and transfer in a freezer proof container. Freeze it for 1 hr
  5. Using the bigger mixie jar attachment, blend it well for 3-4 mins. This step is important to make kulfi creamier. You may repeat the step.
  6. Transfer in kulfi moulds and freeze for 5 to 6 hours.
  7. To take kulfi out, run the closed mould under water and roll with your hands.

Preparation time: 15 mins |  Cooking time: 40 – 45  mins | Serves: 10 – 12 kulfis

Recipe for coconut sooji laddoos

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Preparation Steps

  1. Dry roast sooji with few drops of ghee until golden brown. Let it cool down
  2. Mix coconut, almond powder and milk maid and make a dough
  3. Make small laddoos with adding raisins in each ladoo

Preparation time: 15 – 20 mins |  Cooking time: 10  mins | Serves: 10 – 12 laddoos

Perfect Diwali sweetmeat that can be sent to neighbours.

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