Navratri Recipes | Navratri Fasting Recipes for 9 days : Sabudana Kheer

Navratri Recipes for 9 Days: fasting, upvas & vrat dishes, sweets & desserts for naivedyam & prasadam.

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Navratri Recipes | Navratri Fasting Recipes for 9 days : Sabudana Kheer

Best Navratri recipes to enjoy during the nine days of Sharad Navratri. This post brings together easy, delicious Navratri fasting recipes, vrat recipes, and upvas recipes for breakfast, lunch, dinner, snacks, sweets, and desserts. You will find popular fasting-friendly dishes made with sabudana, makhana, sama rice, kuttu, singhara, rajgira, potatoes, fruits, nuts, etc., along with traditional Navratri prasadam and bhog ideas. I have also included South Indian Navratri naivedyam and prasadam recipes to reflect regional traditions, the significance and importance of each day, and the fasting rules to follow.

Sharing below the popular Sabudana Kheer recipe that we make every year during Navaratri.

Prep Time5

Cook Time20

Total Time25

Course: Breakfast, Desserts, Dinner, Lunch, sweets

Cuisine: north indian, South Indian

Diet: Vegetarian

Servings:

Calories: 193kcal

Author: Kushi

Ingredients

½ cup Sabudana (Tapioca Pearls or Sago)
1 ½ cups Water
1 ½ cups Milk (Use coconut or any non-dairy milk for vegan version)
½ cup Sugar (adjust accordingly)
2 tablespoon Cashews
2 tablespoon Almonds
2 tablespoon Pistachios
1 tablespoon Raisins
2 tablespoon Dried rose petals (Use food-grade rose petals. Roses available commercially are sprayed with insecticides, so beware)

Instructions

Wash sabudna and soak them in water for 2 hours (This step is optional but mainly done so that cooking time is reduced.)
½ cup Sabudana (Tapioca Pearls or Sago)
Meanwhile, in a nonstick pan on medium to low flame, you can dry roast almonds, pistachios, and cashews till they become aromatic. Keep this aside.
2 tbsp Cashews, 2 tbsp Almonds, 2 tbsp Pistachios
In a pan or pot on medium flame, add sabudana and 1.5 cups water and cook till sabudana becomes semi-transparent and is 90% cooked through. Keep stirring to avoid them from burning at the bottom. You can take few sabudana pearls and check if they have started becoming soft. Sabudana pearls should not be dense or hard. You can check my video on how to make sabudana kheer
1 ½ cups Water
Once the sabudana has almost cooked through, add milk and bring it to a boil and cook till sabudana becomes soft and transparent. Keep stirring during the process – as the starch from sago and milk fats can settle at the bottom and burn.
1 ½ cups Milk (Use coconut or any non-dairy milk for vegan version)
Now add sugar, start with ¼ cup and adjust accordingly. I have added ½ cup as this gave the right amount of sweetness to the kheer.
½ cup Sugar (adjust accordingly)
Finally, add the roasted nuts, raisins, rose petals, and simmer for another 2 to 3 minutes. Switch off the flame.
1 tbsp Raisins, 2 tbsp Dried rose petals (Use food-grade rose petals. Roses available commercially are sprayed with insecticides, so beware)
Sabudana Kheer is now ready. Serve hot or cold, and enjoy!

Notes

This post is all about the importance and significance of the 9 days of Navratri. Prasadam, naivedyam, or Bhog recipes for Goddess Lakshmi, and food recipes without onion or garlic that you can eat on vrat days.

Meal planning tip: For a simple Navratri meal, pair one vrat-friendly main dish like sabudana khichdi with curry (aloo rasedar) or yogurt or salad (dahi wala aloo), a small serving of fruit salad, and a sweet (phool makhane ki kheer).

Depending on family and regional fasting traditions, choose ingredients like sabudana, samak rice, potatoes, sweet potatoes, paneer and dairy products, kuttu, rajgira.

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