Chef Amrita Raichand Shares Mithai Recipes For Festive Season

The festive season in India is complete without mithai. From ghevar for Teej, modak for Ganesh Chaturthi, tilgul for Lohri, and much more, you can’t help but look forward to festivities to get the taste of traditional Indian sweets. With Ganpati Puja, Onam, Navratri, and Durga Puja in line, it only makes sense to get a hold of innovative recipes to make every festival sweeter.

Specially curated by Chef Amrita Raichand, known for creating healthy recipes for teens and making home cooking easy, here are some of her nut-based mithai. Whether you want to give modaks a rich filling or turn laddoos into a guilt-free treat, these are just the recipes you’d need for the festive season. Just gather the ingredients and get cooking, and please your sweet tooth.

Macadamia Modak

Ingredients:

  • 1 cup macadamia nuts
  • 1 cup grated coconut (fresh or desiccated)
  • 1 cup jaggery (grated or powdered)
  • 2–3 cardamom pods (powdered)
  • 1 tsp ghee

Method:

  1. Heat a pan, add grated coconut, and lightly roast for 2–3 minutes.
  2. Add jaggery and cook until it melts and combines with the coconut.
  3. Mix in cardamom powder and stir well.
  4. Roughly chop macadamias and fold them into the coconut-jaggery mixture.
  5. Grease palms or modak mould with a little ghee.
  6. While the mixture is still warm, shape into small modaks.
  7. Allow modaks to cool and firm up before serving.

Nutty Energy Laddoos

Ingredients:

  • 70 gm macadamia nuts
  • 30 gm toasted macadamia nuts
  • 100 gm dates
  • 20 gm cranberries
  • Sea salt (to taste)

Method:

  1. Toast some of the macadamia nuts and chop them roughly.
  2. Sprinkle a little sea salt, mix and keep aside.
  3. Now, add the rest of the ingredients to a mixer grinder jar and grind to a soft paste.
  4. Take it out into a bowl. Mix in the prepared crunchy macadamia to it and shape small portions into laddoos.
  5. Top with shaved macadamia and enjoy the healthy festive bite.