Fasting Recipes

Shravan - The Hindu Holy Month has started (20/07/12 to 17/08/12)

The holy month of Shravan heralds a season of prayer, fasting, and various festivals. Do you also fast during Shravan Month? EzCookbook is coming up with new category "Fasting Recipes". Especially for shravana somvar(mondays) are solely dedicated to lord Shiva and shravana sukravar (fridays) women worship Goddess Mahalakshmi. So every Monday and Friday of this month we will be posting Fasting Recipes...keep looking for it...

 

The Shravan falls during the peak monsoon season, it is also the time for festivals like Nag Panchami, Rishi Panchmi, Gokul Ashtami, Gauri vrata, Varalakshmi Vrata, Raksha Bandhan/Shravan Purnima and Paryushan. Shravan month is the first month of auspicious chaturmasa puja. Each Monday is considered highly auspicious day for worshiping Lord Shiva. Come lets celebrate this Holy Shravan Month and its festivals together to get the almighty Sadashiva blessings and to get his bliss to spread divinity at our home....

Though we are staying miles and miles apart from India we wish to celebrate all these festival that brings us to follow our rituals and customs. This will even inculcate religious belief among our next generation.

During this month people avoid non-vegetarian food and abstain from drinking alcohol. There are many devout Hindus, Jains and Gujaratis who are very particular about food during this month. While some eat a single meal, some avoid food which contains onion and garlic and still others eat food without salt. Some are of the view that restriction in diet is to avoid diseases during the monsoon season. Some fast the entire month, eating fruits, roots, tubes, milk and milk products and avoid grains. 

Fasting day turns out to be very hard when it comes to eat all those odd and selective foods. But people like us who take it as challenge and turn fasting into feasting by twisting all those boring food and sometimes a little innovation can make the fasting foods interesting and break monotony. Here we invents a new delicious recipes for fasting to serve you feast...

Rajgara/ Amaranth Paratha

Kache Kele Ki Sabji 
Moraiyo/Samo Khichdi 
Javvarisi Payasam / Sago Kheer
Rajgara Flour Hawa  
Kache Kele Ka Cutlet
Farali Dosa
Sago Khichdi