Food for Shivratri Fast

Many people fast on this day and eat only falahaar i.e. no grains and cereals.

Wheat, rice, lentils, peas, beans, rajma, corn, chana should not be eaten. Turmeric, sesame seeds and ground red chillies are not used in cooking.

Full red and green chillies, rock salt, pepper, lime and mango powder can be used.

Suggested food for Mahashivratri fast:

Roti made of kuttu flour or singhada (water chestnut) flour.
(Buttermilk) kadhi with singhada flour.
Potato curry, sweet potato chaat, paneer and aloo chaat, sago vacla, potato & kuttu atta pakodi in cords, raw banana vadaas.
Almond halwa.
Porridge made out of saamak with vegetables like lauki and paneer.

Sabudana / Sago Kheer

Ingredients

100 gms sabudaana/sago
300 gms sugar
1 litre milk
litre water

Procedure

Wash and soak sabudana for 4-5 minutes, mix sabudana in milk, add water and boil. Add sugar just before the kheer is well cooked and simmer for 5 minutes.

Phool makhana Kheer

Ingredients

Phool Makhana
Milk
Sugar

Procedure

Cut and roast Phool makhana and keep aside. Boil milk on a slow flame till it thickens. Add sugar to the boiling milk, simmer for a few minutes and add the roasted phool makhana.

Sabudana / Sago Khichidi

Ingredients

Large sago seeds
Green chilies
Salt,
Mango powder
Pepper
Lemon
Cashew nuts
Peanuts
Ghee
Potatoes
paneer

Procedure

Soak sabudana/sago in water for an hour. Chop cashew nuts and peanuts, fry them and keep aside, chop paneer & aloo, fry and keep aside.

Strain the soaked sabudana through a sieve and Remove the hard sago seeds.

Heat ghee in a kadhai and add chopped green chilies, then add the nuts, paneer, potatoes, salt, mango powder and pepper. Lemon juice can also be added-mix it with soaked sabudana.