Sweet and Savory Diwali Recipes

A collection of sweet and savory treats to celebrate Indian festival of lights, Diwali.

Diwali / Deepavali

Diwali/Deepavali is a festival light. There are many stories associated with why the festival is celebrated. Common in all of the stories is, celebration of good over evil. Festival is celebrated with arranging row of lights all around the house.

Food is always an integral part of any celebration. It is customary to prepare savory and sweet items before Diwali and distribute among friends and family. All the items are non perishable and have a self life of at least a week.

Here are some savory and sweet Diwali recipes for this festive season. In the Diwali round up I included both baked and deep fried recipes along with some sweet recipes.

Here are some Diwali savory and sweet ideas

Baked & Sauteed savories

Here is the list of baked savories for those health conscious selves and people like me who stay away from deep frying fearing lingering cooking odor in the house.

Baked Mathari

Baked mathari is a guilt free version popular deep fried Indian crackers.

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Baked mathari are Indian crackers or savory biscuits. Mathari is usually deep fried and these are baked and guilt free snack.

Baked Mathris

Baked mathris with combination of whole wheat and all purpose flour.

Baked Namak Para

Namak para is a savory, crunchy crackers from India.

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Masala Crackers

Green chilies and cilantro flavored yeast crackers are a crowd pleaser.

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Chili Garlic Crackers

Baked crackers flavored with green chilies and crushed garlic.

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Chickpeas Crackers

Gluten free, vegan spicy chickpeas crackers.

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Spicy Puffed Rice

Puffed rice, peanuts and putnalu (fried chana dal) seasoned with green chilies and some basic Indian spices.

Poha Mixture Recipe

Poha Mixture is a savory Indian snack with flattened rice and peanuts.

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A bowl poha mixture, a savory Indian snack with flattened rice and peanuts.

Deep fried savories

Bread Muruku

Bread muruku is a savory, crunchy South Indian deep fried snack prepared with rice flour and fresh bread crumbs.

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Bread muruku is a deep fried snack from South Indian prepared with rice flour and fresh bread crumbs

Ratlami Sev

Ratlami sev is spicy, crunchy sev from Ratlam Madhya Pradesh.

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Ratlami sev is spicy crunchy deep fried snack with gram flour

Aloo Bhujia

Aloo bhujia is a deep fried potato gram flour sev, a popular snack in North India.

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Kara Sev

Kara sev is spicy deep fried gram flour snack popular in South India.

Saggu Biyyam Murukulu

Savory rice flour sago snack

Bobbaru Garelu ~ Rice Flour Black Eyed Peas Crackers

Crunchy rice flour crackers with black eyed peas.

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Chegodi

Crunchy rice flour snack shaped into rings.

Sweets

Pesara Pappu Laddu

Pesaru pappu laddu are one of the pasadams for Bathukamma festival in Telangana. Roasted moong dal flour, powdered flour and ghee are mixed together to make these delicious ladoo.

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