Delicious Dhanteras 2025 Recipes to Celebrate the Festival of Lights
Dhanteras 2025 Special Recipes
Dhanteras 2025 Special Recipes: Dhanteras signifies the commencement of the five-day Diwali celebration. This auspicious day involves various rituals, including house cleaning, shopping, and special prayers, all of which hold great importance. To enhance the festive spirit, indulging in traditional and delicious meals is a must.
Planning a menu in advance can simplify cooking while ensuring delightful flavors. If you're unsure about what to prepare this Dhanteras, we have curated a vegetarian menu that promises to enrich your celebrations with taste and health, covering everything from breakfast to dinner. Let’s explore the meal options.
Breakfast
For breakfast, consider making gram flour or moong dal cheelas, which are both tasty and nutritious. To prepare gram flour cheela, combine a cup of gram flour with finely chopped onions, tomatoes, green chilies, coriander leaves, a pinch of carom seeds, salt, and enough water to create a thick batter.
Heat a pan, add a bit of oil, pour in a ladle of the batter, and spread it out thinly. Cook until both sides are golden brown. Serve hot with green chutney or tomato sauce for a light and healthy start to your day.
Lunch
For lunch, prepare kachoris by mixing flour with salt, carom seeds, and oil to create a soft dough. For the filling, combine boiled moong dal or urad dal with fennel seeds, asafoetida, red chili powder, and coriander powder, then fry the mixture. Shape small balls, fill them with the lentil mixture, roll them out, and fry on low heat.
For the accompanying vegetable dish, boil potatoes and prepare a masala using tomatoes, ginger, and green chilies. Add the boiled potatoes along with salt, turmeric, garam masala, and a splash of water, cooking for about 10 minutes. Serve this with the kachoris and hot potato curry.
Dinner
Start dinner by soaking a cup of basmati rice for 30 minutes. In a pan, heat ghee or oil and add whole spices like bay leaves, cloves, cardamom, and cinnamon. Next, add finely chopped onions and ginger-garlic paste, sautéing until fragrant. Incorporate vegetables such as carrots, peas, beans, and cauliflower, cooking briefly.
Add salt, red chili powder, biryani masala, and the soaked rice, followed by two cups of water. Cover and let it cook on low heat for 15-20 minutes. Once done, garnish with coriander leaves and fried onions, and serve with raita.
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