Have a good time with these Lip-smacking, healthy desserts

While this year, amid the pandemic, the celebrations may not be as cheerful, you can always make it special by whipping up some healthy desserts.

Shivani Arora
Published on: 16 Nov 2020 9:37 AM GMT
Have a good time with these Lip-smacking, healthy desserts
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Have a good time with these Lip-smacking, healthy desserts

Festival is a time to celebrate with friends and family and indulge in sweets and numerous delicacies. While this year, amid the pandemic, the celebrations may not be as cheerful, you can always make it special by whipping up some healthy desserts. And if that is how you plan to celebrate your Diwali this year, we have chef Nita Mehta from Tata Sky Cooking sharing some interesting recipes.

Check them out below:

Fruity chia cookie crumble

Ingredients

1 cup whipping cream – whipped (two cups)

2 cups – Mixed fruit

Orange sauce

1½ cups – Orange juice, ready-made

1 inch – Cinnamon stick

1½ tbsp – Sugar, or to taste

1½ tbsp – Custard powder– dissolve in little water

1 tsp – Chia seeds

½ tsp – Butter

Cookie crumble

4 – Digestive biscuits, crumbled

1 tbsp – Softened butter

2 tbsp – Chopped walnuts

Method

For orange sauce, heat juice with cinnamon and sugar on low heat till it boils.

Once done, simmer for two minutes and add dissolved custard powder. Cook till thick. Remove from fire. Add chia seeds and butter.

Mix walnuts and butter with crushed cookies.

Put cookie crumble at the base. Press it.

Put whipped cream on cookie crumble. Put fruits. Pour orange chia sauce on fruits.

Garnish with a big dollop of whipped cream. Top with some cookie crumbles.

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Paan Phirni

Ingredients

1 kg – Milk reduced to 750g

1 – Meetha paan

½ cup – Sugar

½ cup – Basmati rice – soak and grind to a paste

10 – Almonds – blanched and sliced

1 tsp – Kewra jal

5-6 – Green pista – soaked and peeled, for garnish

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Method

Add sugar and almonds to thickened milk.

Dissolve the rice paste in half cup milk and make it thin. Now mix the rice paste with the thickened milk.

Keep milk on fire and stir continuously on medium heat, till the mixture is of creamy consistency.

Remove from fire. Cool slightly.

Grind paan with a little phirni mix and add to the phirni.

Add kewra jal; mix. Put in dessert cups. Top with almond and pista. Refrigerate.

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Enjoy these drooling recipes today!

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Shivani Arora

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