Navratri Fasting Recipes | Vrat Ka Khana | Navratri Fasting Procedure And Rules

Navratri or Navarathri is one of the important Hindu festivals. Vrat ka khana or Navratri fasting recipe also goes very well in another fasting like Janmashtami, Shivratri, and Ekasdshi.

Please find the details in Navratri fasting procedure & rules, do's & don't's and much more.

Goddess Durga is worshipped during this time in her 9 different forms.  Read more about Navratri here. Some people keep all 9 days fats and follow very strict diet.

However some plan to keep first and last day out of 9 days. All whoever observing fast refrain from onion and garlic.

During fasting, we follow some general guidelines. With minor changes, almost similar rules are applicable for other fasting days as well.

What is the Navratri Festival?

Navratri mean, Nav- nine, ratri- nights. It is a festival of nine days where goddess Durga is worshipped in all her different forms including Lakshmi and Saraswati. The 10th day is Vijayadashmi or Dussehra.

This year Navratri begins from 17 October 2020 and ends on 26 October 2020. Each day is devoted to different forms of Goddess Durga and consider a different color for each day.

During this festival, devotees observe fast and worship the goddess.

The nine manifested forms of Goddess Durga (Gauri) are Shailaputri, Brahmacharini, Chandraghanta, Kushmanda, Skandamata, Katyayani, Kaalratri, Mahagauri, and Siddhidhatri.

These nine forms of Durga, are worshipped as “Navadurga” in the Navratri festival.

Navratri Recipes, 25+ collection of Navratri vrat recipes, or Navratri fasting recipes. Navratri vrat ka khanna includes snack recipes, desserts, beverages & many more healthy recipes.

How Navratri is celebrated?

Durga Pooja, Ramlila, Garba, and Golu are very famous customs, celebrated in different parts of India during nine days.

The traditional method of the celebration includes fasting for a day, or partially for every nine days, and worshipping the goddess Durga.

There are restrictions over food that to eat during Navratri fasting days which I am covering in the next heading.

Guideline to follow for fasting days

• People who observe fasts, they take bath in the morning first and then perform pooja(worship) by lighting a diya (lamp) and agarbatti.
• After the sunset, again the same process of pooja performed.
• Pooja always starts with Ganesh Vandana.
• During these days no hair cut and shaving is allowed.
• People consume food as per their beliefs, some eat only one time in 24 hrs, whereas for some 3 meals a day is also fine.
• Food is consumed only after morning pooja and in the evening after offering navaidyam to Goddess Durga or Matarani.

Check these few homemade pantry staple recipes which will help you observing Navratri fast fuss-free.

• Homemade ghee
• Homemade yogurt
• Roasted cumin powder

Food allowed in Navratri Fasting | Vrat or upvas Ka Khana

• Flours and Grains - Arrowroot flour(same as Hindi name), sabudana (tapioca pearl), sabudana atta (tapioca flour), kuttu ka atta (buckwheat flour), rajgira atta (amaranth flour), singhade ka atta(chestnut flour), samo rice (barnyard millet), samo rice atta (barnyard millet flour).
• Fruits - All kinds of fruits can be consumed.
• Vegetables - In vegetable lauki (bottle gourd), kaddu (pumpkin), aloo (potato), arbi (colocasia), shakarkand (sweet potato), carrot, kaccha Kela (plantain), cucumber and tomato are also used in some places as per their customs.
• Milk Products - Milk, curd, paneer, homemade butter, ghee, condensed milk. See homemade curd recipe.
• Dry Fruits - All dry fruits are allowed to eat. Specially lotus seed, almond, cashew, pista, peanut, magaj ke beej (melon seeds), raisins. Lotus seed and peanut are commonly used.
• Spices - Sendha namak (rock salt), sugar, honey, gur (jaggery), cumin seed,  peppercorn, some household uses red chili powder, mustard seeds, dry mango powder, and whole spices. However, ask from your elders. you can check how to make roasted cumin powder.
• Garnishing - Green chili, green coriander, ginger, and lemon juice.
• Cooking oil - Most of the time ghee is preferred cooking medium but peanut & sunflower oil works as well. You can see how to make homemade ghee.

Foods not allowed in Navratri fasting

• There is no onion & no garlic food is cooked on all nine days.
• No wheat flour, maida, rice, sooji, besan is allowed.
• No normal salt only rock salt or sendha namak used to cook.

Disclaimer

Here I listed recipes that are suitable for fasting or vrat or upwas and can be customized as per each household preference of ingredients.

However, I request you to consult with your family just in case if any ingredient should be avoided or included. These are general guidelines documented as per my knowledge and the way my mother did.

Replace salt with sendha namak or rock salt in the below recipes. And avoid using turmeric as per requirement.

Navratri Fasting Recipes | Vrat Ka Khana | Upwas Ka Khana

This is the entire collection of farali recipes or vrat ka khana. You can prepare a Navratri Meal Plan by using these Navratri recipes.

Avoid turmeric powder, replace plain salt with sendha namak or rock salt, and anything that's you don't use during fasting in recipes. Use the guidelines as mentioned above.

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Peach Chutney	Sama Rice Paratha	Vrat Ki Aloo Chat/Vrat ke Aloo
Plain Rajgira Paratha	Peanut Ladoo	Dulce De Leche Coconut Ladoo
Vrat Ki Chutney	Kuttu Ka Paratha	Vrat Ka Dosa
Kuttu Ka Cheela	Makhana Kheer	Khajur Burfi/Dates Roll
Coconut Ladoo	Kuttu Ki Tikki/Cutlet	Vrat Ki Sabudana Khichdi
Phoolmakhana Numkeen	Gajar ka Raita	Gajar Halwa
Lauki Ka Halwa	Rajgira Paratha	Strawberry Milkshake
Vrat Ka Sabudana Vada	Shikanji/Nimbu Paani	Sama Rice Kheer
Sweet Lassi	Watermelon Juice	Masala Chaas
Lauki Ka Raita	Apple Raita	Aloo Raita
Shakarkand ki chat	Farali Kothimbir Vadi	Farali Frech Fries
Vrat Ki Papdi Chat Kuttu Papdi Chat	Kuttu Ki Poori & Vrat Ke Aloo Ki Sabji	Vrat Ka Dahi Bhalla or Vrat Ke Dahi Vada
Strawberry lassi	Mango Lassi	Homemade ghee
How to make roasted cumin powder	Homemade yogurt/curd

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