Maintaining a Navratri fast can be challenging, especially when hunger pangs strike. If you're experiencing constant hunger, it's possible that your diet lacks sufficient protein. Protein not only keeps you feeling full but also boosts metabolism, helps with weight loss, and maintains healthy blood sugar levels.
To stay energised and satisfied during the nine-day fast, try incorporating these high-protein and nutritious Vrat-friendly recipes.
Date Roll
Ingredients:
- Fresh Dates: 10 nos. deseeded
- Peanut butter: 4 tablespoons
- 2 tablespoons of desiccated coconut
Rolling dates for:
- Dates should be deseeded and stuffed with peanut butter
- Coat it with dried coconut.
Health advantages
- A fantastic source of protein is peanut butter.
- Dates will support the maintenance of iron and energy levels.
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Khoya Paratha
Ingredients:
- 1 cup of Rajgeera flour
- Khoya - one cup
- Water when necessary
- Ghee: 1 tablespoon
- Add salt to taste
Method:
- Place Rajgeera flour in a bowl, season with salt to taste, stir well, and then add water to create a soft dough.
- Roast the khoa until it begins to turn golden.
- Create little balls, roll them into roti, and then do it again with another ball.
- After that, spread the roasted Khoa on one roti and top it with another.
- Flip the roti after applying ghee and roasting it over medium-gas heat.
- After 2 minutes of cooking, ghee should be added to the parathas.
Health advantages
- This recipe contains a lot of protein because of the khoa.
- Rajgeera flour has a good amount of calcium, phosphorus, and magnesium added to it.
Varai Dahi Vada
Ingredients:
- 1 cup of varai/samu rice
- 1/3 cup Singhada/chestnut flour
- Green chilies: 1 teaspoon
- Cumin seeds, 1 teaspoon
- Curd, 3/4 cup
- Powdered dry dates: 1 tablespoon.
- Dates and jaggery chutney, 1 tablespoon.
- To taste, add salt.
- Water when necessary
Method:
- Varai should be added to a grinder and ground into a coarse powder. Then combine Varai and Singhada flour.
- The powder should be added to a bowl
- Stir in the curd, salt, green chillies, and cumin seeds
- Mix thoroughly after adding 1/2 cup of water
- For 15 minutes, cover the bowl and set it aside
- Add more water to create a thick batter resembling that of an idly
- In Appe Patra, preheat a ball over medium heat
- Pour 14 teaspoons of oil into each mould before adding the batter to the moulds
- Place a lid on the pan and cook the balls on medium heat for 3–4 minutes, or until they are beautifully browned on the bottom
- Turn the ball. Cook the opposite side for an additional 2 to 3 minutes
- Next, take a bowl, add the curd mixture, and season with the powdered dry dates.
- Add the balls after fully blending the curd
- Delight in the nutritious, non-oily vrat dahi wada
Health advantages:
- The inclusion of varied flour and singhara flour increases the protein content of this dish.
- Curd is a fantastic source of probiotics and protein.
- Dates and jaggery will support a healthy level of iron in the body.
Dry Fruit Piyush
Ingredients:
- Curd, 1 bowl
- Milk, 1 glass
- Almonds - 4 to 5 nos.
- Pistachios- 4 to 5 nos.
- Whole walnuts, two
- Cashewnuts: five nos.
- 4 nos. of cardamom powder
- Dates: 4 no.
Method:
- In a dish, combine the milk and curd. Use a hand mixer or a blender to blend the mixture into a thick, creamy consistency
- Add the date, cardamom, and dried fruit powders to the previously mentioned mixture
- Freeze the piyush for two hours
- Offer it chilled
Health advantages
- This dish is high in magnesium, calcium, zinc, selenium, and protein
- We get a considerable amount of probiotics from curd