9 Traditional Foods You Should Try During The Festival
A sweet snack made by mixing ghee with sugar syrup and then left to cool before getting fried to create a very crispy and crunchy cookie. This is an ideal accompaniment to eat with tea by dipping it.
This laddu is a combination of dates and dry fruits roasted in ghee. No sugar and Jaggery is added in preparing this laddu and it gets its sweetness from dates, making it very healthy to eat.
Kheer is an important delicacy in the rituals of this puja. Its a creamy pudding made from rice, milk and gud. Kheer symbolises gratitude and devotion and is served as a prayer to the gods.
Poori is a deep fried bread made of wheat flour and ghee, these are traditionally served with dishes like 'aloo sabzi' and 'kaddoo ki sabzi'.
It’s a simple pumpkin curry prepared with mild spices, often served alongside Puri. It has both a subtle spice and a natural sweet flavour to it.
A lesser known roti offering made out of wheat flour and jaggery and then some fennel seeds added in to give it a bit of a fragrance.
Like kessar laddu, the coconut rice laddus are also a famous and easy to prepare delicacy in Chhath puja. Made from grated coconut, rice flour and cardamom, they are the embodiment of purification and sanctity of food.
This delicacy is basically dried green peas you can find in the special thali. It is soaked in water for the whole night and then presented next day with green chillies and cumin seeds.
Kaddu dal, a significant dish in Nahaye Khaye thali during chhath puja, is made with bottle gourd and chana dal that offers delicious and nutritious addition to the meal.