Easy 3 Festival Sweet And Spicy Menu For Busy Toddler moms

Happy Wednesday,

Sweet and spice is mandatory part of our Indian meal. Without sweet dish any festival meal is incomplete. To balance the sweetness you have to have spice in a thali. Festivals have already started and the remaining 4 months are filled with many festivals. Each festival has different kinds of food and I am grateful to be able to follow food rituals.  

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We mom always wanted to feed our family homemade delicious food specially at the festival. But with a whining toddler it is very difficult. First to keep our mood happy and second to keep our motivation to cook delicious food. I know, it is difficult and we ended up bringing outside food. Because today we easily get festival food from the food centre. But nothing tastes better than homemade food. Agree? 

Cooking for my family is something I love. I always love to feed simple, yet healthy and homemade meals. Currently, I am going through the toddler phase and the elder one is a foodie.  I don't want to compromise on her food intake. Though she has a limited favourite food, I always wanted to cook for her and love the way she gobbled it and then slept for hours 😂 

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Being a twin toddler mom and sticking to calm 😄( trying ) my intention to make some simple festival recipes which can be cooked in 30 minutes (subject to conditions you have some small prep work 😜). The festive month has already started so don't be sad and enjoy this easy peasy menu. Do not get tempted to make tons of item. Stick to the basic.

Sharing what I used to make for a festival for my family - twin toddlers, one 10 year old and 2 adults. This easy menu consists of sweet and spicy food items which are balanced meals. 

Without a further ado, let's start. 

1. Seviya kheer + dry aloo sabji + Puri + papad + achar + salad 

This is my go to meal, easy to prepare and not time consuming. I have boiled potatoes in my fridge for every week as a part of meal prep .  I do not use any onions for this curry. Giving tadka with combination of  jeera, hing, whole red chilli, turmeric, red chilli powder, kitchen King masala and salt with diced boiled potato. Fry till it gets crispy and garnish with sesame seeds and kasoori methi. Dry Aloo is ready.

Shevaii kheer is one of our family favourites. Roast shevaii in ghee. Boil milk on another pan. Add roasted shevaii and boil till it becomes thick. Then add sugar, dry fruits and cardomom powder. Yummy kheer is ready in 15 minutes.

Fry some puri. If the dough is already ready then it will take only 15 minutes to make poori. 

Your thali is ready. Serve with some salad. Here I use cucumber and carrot slices with some fried papad and mango pickles.  My toddlers eat salad, kheer and poori.

2. The second Thali: 

Semolina kheer + chana masala + poori + yellow rice + achar + lachcha onion with lemon + papad.

The Kheer recipe is the same as the sevai recipe. Roast semolina till it gets brown colour. Add custard powder to this kheer. It takes this simple kheer on a high level. Try it once, you will love it.

I made different versions of chana masala depending on time and mood.

Sometimes malvani chana masala where I use grinded coconut and onion masala. Will share this recipe very soon.

Sometimes dry chana masala without onion and tomato. Frying boiled chana with a variety of powder masale. Garnish with chopped coriander.

Some time I made choley masla with onion tomato gravy. The basic Punjabi chole masala keeps it as simple as possible.

Yellow rice is again simple. Giving tadka in ghee with hing, jeera, curry leaves and turmeric, followed by wash rice with salt. I made it in the cooker with one whistle. 

Your second Thali is ready. Serve it with lachcha onion and lemon. Taste awesome 😎

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The third menu is the typical Maharashtrian Menu :

Dal + Rice + Potato green curry + poori + shrikhand + kurdai ( papad type)

You can cook dal rice in a pressure cooker. Sometimes I did not give any tadka. Whisk dal and add salt. Serve it on a rice with dalloop of ghee. Yumm,🤩

Maharashtrian potato curry is famous and simple which is used in Vada paav. No onion no tomato only using crushed garlic and green chilli. Garnish with crushed peenut and fistful coriander. 

Shrikhand is store bought and poori. Yumm.

Maharashtrian easy thali prepare in 30 minutes only. You can make dal and rice in pressure cooker and at the same time boil potatoes too. It saves your time and gas. The main tempting items of this thali is Shrikhand and kuradai. I love to eat only shreekhand poori. 

These are easy peasy recipe. Almost every Indian mom know it. My tip is always choose menu simple and your family favourite. So you will not feel any guilt that you unable to cook. Try this simple sweet and spicy menu. Share your also. 

I like sweet one most of the time. My favourite is kheer poori and Shrikhand poori. 

What is your favourite dish ? Do you like Sweet or Spicy? 

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