In this post you will find vrat recipes or fasting recipes, upvas (upwas) recipes, prasad (prasadam) recipes that are prepared during Indian festivals like 9 days of Navratri, Janmashtami, Ganesh Chaturthi, Karwa Chauth, Varalakshmi vratam (varamahalakshmi pooja), Shravan (Sawan) month, Shivratri, Diwali, Sankashti chaturthi, Ekadashi, Panchami, Gauri Vrat etc.
There differences in how each of these festivals is celebrated all over India. For example – in parts of South India that I am familiar with, no fasting is kept during Navratri, instead, deities are worshiped, sweets are offered as naivedyam to goddess Lakshmi and then served in form of prasad (prasadam) to all devotees. Whereas, in some parts of North and Western India, fasting (upvas or vrat) is kept on these 9 days of Navratri.
Even the fasting rules vary from one region to another and the same fasting rules will be applied even for Ekadashi, Shravan, Shivratri, Ashtami, or any religious fasting you do on a weekly basis.
What can be eaten during fast, upvas or vrat?
For example, after I started blogging, I got to know from my fellow bloggers that sabudana is one of the main dish you can eat during vrat but in my hometown, sabudana is not typically consumed on fasting days. Of course, these traditions are changing thanks to food bloggers and social media, and rightly so.
Another example that I would love to share is people prefer sendha namak (rock salt) for fasting in few regions but in my hometown we are allowed to use regular salt for any fasting, vrat or upvas.
And also make sure you check with your family elders and follow the traditions and fasting rules as some region do not prefer onion garlic recipes and all the recipes below are no onion no garlic while other do not eat the regular salt, rice or wheat flour on fasting or festival days.
But in general fasting recipes are quick and easy to make. Most of the spices and grains are not used, with no meat, no marination, no onion, and no garlic.
What are the fasting or vrat rules followed in your region? Do comment below. Based on dishes you can eat click on image or link to get the full recipe.
To know more about 9 days of Navratri vrat and fasting and importance of each day visit my blog on Navratri recipes.
I have shared both sweet and savory recipes. For savory recipes, scroll down below!!!!!!!!!
Sweet recipes for vrat, fasting, upvas and prasad (prasadam)
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Snacks, Breakfast, Main course (Lunch and Dinner) recipes for vrat, fasting, upvas and prasad (prasadam)
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![poha mixture, chivda, spicy snack for deepawali, diwali](https://www.cookwithkushi.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/IMG_3395_.jpg")
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60 + vrat or fasting recipes, upvas (upwas) recipes, prasad (prasadam recipes) that are made during Indian festivals like 9 days of Navratri, Janmashtami, Ganesh Chaturthi, Karwa chauth, Varalakshmi vratam (varamahalakshmi pooja), Shravan month, shivratri, Ekadashi, Ram Navami.
- Sabudana Vada or Fries
- Barfi
- Ladoo
- Halwa
- Pudding (Kheer)
- Khichdi
- Pakora
- Vrat ke aloo
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Plan your fasting or upvas or vrat menu
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Arrange all the ingredients needed for each recipe
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Prepare delicious recipe and enjoy.
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You have a great collection of fasting recipes here. What a help this will be to so many! Thanks for sharing these!
What a great round-up of recipes! I’m bookmarking the chilled banana pudding!
Love all these options and they look so tasty, thanks for sharing all of these! Yum!
I love how easy these recipes are! They all look amazing!
All these recipes look so good! I can’t wait to get my hands on a few of them.
Amazing list with tons of great recipes for this type of fasting. Will definitely keep this on hand.
What a wonderful roundup. I have bookmarked some to try.
You have such a variety of delicious recipes. Love this roudup! So interesting to know that fasting depends on fasting rules that vary between regions.
So many delicious fasting recipes here! I didn’t realize there were so many regional differences regarding fasting, but I guess it makes sense too!
I can see so many recipes in this collection that I want to try! First will be the pistachio almond fudge and the instant banana dosa. What a great way to learn about the holiday dishes.
Wow, what a great collection of recipes here – I certainly want to make a few, the almond pistachio fudge, rice vermicelli and the set rice appo have particularly caught my attention and would love to give these a try asap. Thanks for sharing!
Oooh! What a great roundup of fasting recipes. I love how diverse and varied the Indian subcontinent is.
These are great options for any time of the year. Thank you for collecting such a long list of delicious recipes.
What a delicious selection of recipes, perfect for making and sharing with friends, I love the sound of the spicy potato curry and pumpkin in coconut gravy. Thanks for sharing.
I want to try them all as they all look delicious! Thank you for sharing such yummy treats!
Such a wonderful colllection of sweet and savory recipes. Loe each one of them, they are like treasure for fasting days.
This is just an amazing collection of vrat recipes. I just love each and every recipes here.
What a wonderful collection of sweet and savory recipes! I love the chickpeas one- can’t wait to make it.
Thanks so much for sharing the roundup! Really great resource of fasting recipes that I have not seen too often.
What an informative post!! I love reading about these festivals and different fastings – now I need to make me some of these delicious recipes!! They all look so great!!
Every recipe on this list is amazing. Super delicious and yum. Cant wait to try some of these as soon as possible. Thanks
Wow! You have an incredible list of vrat fasting recipes and they’re all look so delicious and tasty. It makes me hungry and crave for it.
What an incredible list! I love the diversity in ingredients and recipes. Plus, I love that you shared about the differences in fasting from city to city. So interesting!
So many great option here, that’s an amazing post! Thank you for sharing this!
What a fantastic collection of recipes! Every one of them looks so delicious. I think that pistachio almond fudge is calling my name. 😋
All of these recipes look so good but I really love the rice and pudding dishes.
What a great collection of delicious recipe! I already found so many that I want to try! Saving this page!
You have great collection of vrat recipes! Most of them are perfect to celebrate festivals as well.
I am just loving the diversity and flavors of all of these recipes! The desserts in particular, are making me drool!
I really enjoyed learning about these fasting vrat recipes. Such an amazing collection of dishes, and wonderful recipes – thank you for sharing your insights.
Wow! All of these look so delicious. Which one do I start with first? 🙂
What a wonderful collection of recipes, so many tempting dishes I don’t know which to try first! Yum.
Thank you for all these recipes I’ll love to try all of them, they look so tasty.
Nnniiiccceeeee….the bread recipes look so inviting! I will start with those, looking into them further. Thanks for sharing them.
I think the coconut barfi is the one I want to try most. Coconut reminds me of summer.
So many great recipes on this list. I will try to get some of these and see if I can cook them.
I have friends that fast and it’s very intense. They can’t even drink water from sun up to sundown. I don’t think I could do it without water. I’ve fasted for 24 hours and it wasn’t terrible, to be honest, I slept most of the day to keep my mind off the hunger!
Wow! Every recipe looks absolutely delicious. There is a great list of food that we can choose from. Craving this Indian classic foods, totally loved it!
These recipes look so good! There’s such a huge variety for anyone with dietary restrictions.
This is perfect. I just started my IF journey and I’m looking for recipes for it. Every recipe looks delish!
It’s nice that you have recipes for every occasion. Every recipe sure does look delicious!
Wow, everything looks so amazing! I don’t know which recipe to start with first!
I love trying recipes from various cultures! I am certainly going to have to give this a go!
I feel like I could do all of these and love them! I’m excited to try a few!
Incredible! This is such a wonderful collection to think what to make whether you are fasting or not. Some of the recipes are our favorites and I would love to give a try for a few interesting ones.
What a fantastic collection cant wait to go through them all
Wow, it was so interesting to learn about all these recipes I never knew existed, but look so delicious! As an adventurous eater, I am so keen to try them! Cucumber semolina doha is the first one on my list! 🙂
So many gorgeous recipes here, I love the look of some of those dainty sweets – delicious!
Amazing!!! This is such a great resource!! Saving all these recipes! Thank you so much!
Really lovely recipe round-up. We do fasting detox days very often, so this post comes in handy!
So many great recipes! Sweet potato fritters are my favorite, no doubt in that. Love how easy it is to make them. Yum!
What an amazing list of recipes for celebrating. I can’t wait to try them all.
This is such a fantastic list of recipes! I recently tried the pan-fried sweet plantains and can’t wait to try the rest. I will be sharing this page with my friends!
There are so many great recipes here to choose from!
Looks like a great collection of recipes. I love trying dishes from around the world. It is always fun hunting down some of these ingredients too.
Such a great list of recipes! I love Gulab Jamun.
Oh wow! Such a wonderful collection of recipes! I especially love the coriander almond chutney and Mango Vermicelli Kheer.
These all look and sound delicious, but I think I definitely need to try to Mango Chia Pudding asap. It looks amazing! 🙂
I will be honest – I have not heard of majority of these items, but they all sound delicious! I enjoyed reading through this post! I will definitely have to give some a try!
Such an amazing collection for every meal of the day. Can;t wait to make the almond and pistachio fudge.
Such a great collection of recipes. The coconut barfi looks delicious!
Such an informative post, loved the collection of fasting recipes. Thank you for sharing it.
This is such a wonderful collection of fasting recipes. Very useful. Thanks for sharing.
Such a great collection of recipes. Very interesting. Now, which one do I make first?