Vrat food or farad food is a special category food, this”sattvic” food is made with special ingredients and consumed during fasting days. Here is a round up of farad recipes, foods many people consume for auspicious fasting.
Rich creamy tapioca pearl pudding made with homemade evaporated milk infused with saffron and cardamom, loaded with nuts to add just a right amount of crunch to the creaminess!
Water chestnut flour halwa made with gluten free singhada flour, ghee, milk, jaggery and cardamom powder, perfect fasting dessert!
Spicy, savory, tangy Sweet potatoes cooked with cumin seeds, lots of peanuts, green chilis, ginger and white rock salt to make it Vrat (Indian Fasting) friendly faradi Shakkariya
Singoda Peanut Date Ladoo made out of roasted peanuts, simple dates and singoda (water chestnut) flour to make perfect fasting treats!!
Sabudana Khichdi
Ingredients
- 3 cup sabudana (tapioca pearls)
- 3 large russet potatoes (peeled & cubbed)
- 1 cup Roasted & crushed peanuts
- ¼ cup Peanut oil or Ghee
- 10 curry leaves
- 1 tbsp Cumin Seeds
- 1½ tbsp Thai Green Chili & Ginger paste
- 1½ tbsp Salt (sindhav salt preferred)
- 1½ tbsp Sugar
- 1 Lemon
- 1 cup Chopped Cilantro
Instructions
- Wash sabudana 2-3 times to get rid of some starch. Do not wash all the starch away.
- Soak in hot/warm water for 2-4 hours or longer, cover it while soaking, to keep the warmth. Use just enough water upto the level of sabudana for soaking! The longer you soak, the dryer your khichdi will be. I soak it for 2-4 hours since I like mine a little sticky & chewy!!
- Heat oil (or ghee) in a flat/wide/heavy bottom pan.
- Add in cumin seeds. Once they start to fragrant and deepen in color, add in curry leaves.
- Add in peeled/cubed potatoes. Sauté them till they are 3/4th way cooked.
- Add in ginger chili paste, crushed peanuts, salt. Mix well. Cook for another minute of two.
- Add in soaked sabudana. Mix well.
- Cover and cook till the sabudana gets translucent. Uncover and mix few times during this step. It should take about 3-5 minutes on medium heat.
- Once sabudana are translucent, add in sugar, lemon juice and cilantro. Mix well.
- Serve it pippin hot with side of cumin yogurt!!
