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Navratri meaning 'nine nights' is traditionally marked with Hindu women praying to Goddess Durga and observing fast
throughout the nine days.
While most women who fast give up on rice, wheat and dal, they take to fruits and low-calorie snacks during this time.
These snacks are distributed among young women and children after the morning and evening prayers.
We bring you the recipes of some of the snacks cooked and served during Navratri season.
Sundal
Ingredients
200 gms black gram soaked overnight for at least 10 hours
2 tsp chana dal
3 tsp coriander
3-4 dried red chillies
1 tsp fenugreek seeds
1 tsp mustard seeds
4-5 curry leaves
1 tsp urad dal
2-3 green chillies finely chopped
cup grated coconut
Method
Heat a pan, add chana dal, coriander, red chillies and fenugreek seeds.
Roast them for about a minute.
Take it off the flame and grind the mixture into a coarse dry mixture. Keep this aside.
Wash the black gram well and empty it into a pressure cooker.
Add water just enough to soak the gram.
Add salt and seal the lid.
Allow it to cook for up to four to five whistles.
For tadka, in a heating pan, add one tablespoon oil.
When it heats, add 1/4 cup grated coconut.
When it begins to change colour, add mustard seeds.
When it crackles, add curry leaves, urad dal and green chillies.
Saut them well.
Now add the dry mixture prepared earlier.
Mix well on slow fire for about a minute.
Add the cooked gram and mix well.
Garnish it with the remaining grated coconut and serve hot.
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this sundal
by Neelamegham (View MyPage) on Oct 07, 2013 12:14 AM
manufactures gas chambers.
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Not permitted items

by Abhijit (View MyPage) on Oct 04, 2013 06:17 PM | Hide replies
All the items shown - Chana, Gram, Maida are not permitted during fasting.
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Re: Not permitted items
by Deepak (View MyPage) on Oct 04, 2013 06:42 PM
they are needed not for fasting, but for ....(replace s with an r)
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Re: Not permitted items
by Akbar Khan (View MyPage) on Oct 05, 2013 09:26 AM
yes correct
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