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The festival of Guru Purab is celebrated to commemorate the birth of Baba Guru Nanak, the founder of Sikhism. His birth anniversary is marked with a lot of devotion and dedication. At Gurdwaras, kheer, ladoo, meethe chawal and barfi are other mouth-watering sweets made especially on Guru Purab. These delicious sweets can be made healthier and more nutritious with a dash of healthy oil like Oleev’s olive pomace oil. It is suitable for heart health and Vitamin E's goodness strengthens the body’s defence mechanism against infections. It also contains Vitamin K that helps with bone density, and maintains the overall health of the bones. Here we share five traditional sweet ideas with a healthy twist curated by celebrity nutritionist Nmami Agarwal in Association with Oleev to make this year's Guru Nanak Jayanti memorable, sweet and healthy:
Meethe Chawal
A traditional Indian dessert, Meethe Chawal includes essential ingredients - basmati rice and sugar syrup with spices such as cloves, cardamom, cinnamon, and saffron. Dry fruits sauteed in olive pomace oil are added for more flavour. Add olive pomace oil and heat it over low flame. Add the spices, saute them to release their taste, add water, sugar (Jaggery can be used for a healthy option), and the par-boiled rice. Finally, add saffron and relish this delicacy.
Multigrain Coconut Ladoo
This nutrient-packed sweet is made of grated coconut, jaggery, nuts and dry fruits, flours such as pearl millet flour, ragi, jowar, besan and whole wheat flour, and olive pomace oil. These laddoos need only one tablespoon of oil. First, heat some oil, add all the flours in a pan, add all the dry fruits, melt jaggery, let it cool, and lubricate your fingers to form them into small balls. Making the laddoo is an enjoyable activity where members of the family can participate.
Vermicelli Kheer
Vermicelli Kheer’s ingredients include milk, olive pomace oil, whole wheat vermicelli, dry fruits and nuts, cardamom powder, sugar, or other sweet alternatives. Its cooking method is simple. First, boil and reduce milk while the vermicelli is roasted in olive oil. Then it is added to milk with dry fruits, cardamom powder, sugar and cooked to perfection. Finally, garnish it with chopped nuts and raisins before serving.
Dry Fruit Barfi
To make this dry fruit barfi, you can use every sort of nuts, including peanuts, almonds, hazelnuts, and macadamia nuts. First, bake these nuts, mix them with finely chopped dates and figs with a dash of milk, and combine them with honey, maple syrup, salt, and olive pomace oil. Then, take them out on parchment paper and cut them into squares, and cool them.
Kada Prashad
Kada Prashad, with a healthy twist, includes whole wheat flour, olive pomace oil and sugar. Here you roast the flour in oil till it turns pink and then add in the sugar and cook to perfection. To opt for a sugar-free recipe, you can replace sugar with jaggery or stevia. Here, for added health benefits, we have replaced ghee with olive pomace oil.
These recipes are healthy and delicious, and they are great for celebrating traditions with the entire family while keeping health and nutrition at the forefront.
