Healthy Recipes for Makar Sankranti

Makar Sankranti is a very auspicious festival for Hindu’s. Indian people celebrate this festival with great enthusiasm and fervour. This festival is known with different names in different parts of India. Like, In south India- it is popularly called ‘Pongal’, in Punjab and Haryana it is called ‘Lohri’, in Assam it is called ‘Bihu’ , ‘Uttarayan or kite flying festival’ in Gujarat and ‘Khichdi festival’ in Bihar.

The festival is an important occasion to mark the end of dark phases and the beginning of a new phase in everyone’s lives or we can say it’s a new year according to the Hindu calendar. On this occasion, people buy new clothes, visit temples and eat special laddos, sweets and other preparation. These special dishes are generally prepared with the sesame seeds, bajra & rice and jaggery.

The purpose of eating these dishes are that, sesame contains oil based constituents in every grain of sesame. During the cold season, skin gets dry and flaky and requires moisture for keep it smooth and protected. Jaggery adds sweetness with tons of nutrients into these dishes.

 I’m preparing  3 different recipes for Makar sankranti by using these special ingredients;

1.      Sesame seeds & peanut laddos
2.    Bajra Tikki
3.     Jaggery Rice

    SESAME SEEDS & PEANUT  LADDOS

Ingredients :

•          ⅓ cup sesame seeds 
•          ¼ cup peanuts
•          ¼ cup desiccated coconut
•          ½ cup powdered jaggery 
•          3 tablespoon water
•           ¼ teaspoon cardamom powder
•          1 tsp oil for greasing

Recipe :

1.       Heat a pan and roast the sesame seeds on low flame for 2-3 minutes.

2.       Now roast the peanuts and coarsely crushed it.

3.       Roast the desiccated coconut and add all the ingredients into it.

4.       In the other pan, take powdered jaggery  and add 3 tbsp water. keep on stirring the jaggery so that it dissolves and cook till you come to a soft ball stage in the jaggery solution.

5.       Add all the dry roasted mixture with the jaggery solution very well.

6.       Make small laddos and store it into airtight container.

   BAJRA TIKKI

Ingredients :

•         1 cup Bajra flour
•          1/3 cup suji
•          1/3 cup sesame seeds
•          1 pinch baking soda
•          1/2 cup powdered jaggery
•          Oil for frying

       Recipe :

        1.      Heat a pan and roast the sesame seeds on low flame for 2-3 minutes.

        2.       In the other pan, take powdered jaggery and add 3 tbsp water. keep on stirring the jaggery so                that it dissolves and make syrup.

        3.       Mix all the dry ingredients into a bowl and knead it with jaggery syrup.

        4.       Make small roti with this dough and deep fried it on medium flame.

  JAGGERY RICE

Ingredients :

·         Rice 500g

·         Jaggery 300g

·         Dry fruits 50 g

·         Fennel 1 tbsp

·         Green Cardamom 6 pieces

·         Desi Ghee Half cup

·         Water 2 -1/2 Glasses

  

Recipe :

1.      In a cooking pot, add desi ghee, green cardamom, fennel, dry nuts and sauté it.

2.      Now add jaggery and water. Boil it until jaggery melts.

3.      Afterward, add rice and cook until water remains in low quantity then steam it.

4.      Now your tasty jaggery rice is ready to serve.

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