Navratri 2025: Surprise your friends and family by whipping up some festive treats

Having guests over for Navratri and don’t know what to make? Grab a few items off your kitchen shelf and turn them into wonderfully tasty festive treats.

Home-made festive treats for this Navratri that you cannot miss out on

Biscuit Kalakand

Ingredients:

·         Britannia Bourbon Biscuit – 1 packet

·         Paneer – 200 gms and grated

·         Milk – 1 cup

·         Sugar – 4 tbsp

·         Chopped Nuts – as required for garnishing

Method:

·         Grind a pack of Britannia Bourbon biscuits into a coarse powder.

·         In a pan, combine paneer and milk.

·         Cook on medium – low flame for 5-8 minutes.

·         Add sugar and continue to cook till it dissolves.

·         Stir the mixture till it thickens.

·         Transfer the mixture to a baking tray, garnish with chopped nuts.

·         Refrigerate for 30 minutes and it is ready to be served.

Guava biscuit kulfi with oat cookies

Ingredients:

·         Guavas – 2 nos

·         Milk- 1/3 cup

·         Fresh cream – 1/3 cup

·         Honey – 2 tbsp

·         Britannia NutriChoice Oats cookies – 8- 10 nos

·         Chilli powder – pinch

·         Black salt - pinch

Method:

·         First, cut the top off of two ripe guavas and scoop out the pulp, setting the hollow shells aside.

·         In a blender, combine the guava pulp, milk, fresh cream, and honey.

·         Blend until smooth.

·         Roughly crush 8–10 Britannia NutriChoice Oats Cookies and stir them into the guava mixture.

·         Pour the mixture back into the hollow guava shells and freeze overnight until firm.

·         Once set, slice the kulfi into rounds and optionally sprinkle it with chili powder and black salt for a spicy kick.

Nutty Date Roll

Ingredients:

·         NutriChoice digestive biscuits – 8-10 nos

·         Almonds – ¼ cup

·         Cashews – ¼ cup

·         Pistachios – ¼ cup

·         Ghee- 1 tbsp

·         Dates – 1 cup

·         Figs – 1 cup

Method:

·         Grind 10-12 NutriChoice digestive biscuits into a fine powder and set aside.

·         In a pan, roast almonds, cashews, and pistachios for a few minutes.

·         In the same pan, add one tablespoon of ghee, along with seedless dates and chopped figs.

·         Cook until the mixture becomes soft and dough-like.

·         Combine the roasted nuts and biscuit powder with the date mixture, stirring well. Transfer the mixture to butter paper and shape it into a cylindrical roll.

·         Coat the roll with some of the remaining biscuit powder, slice it into even pieces, and enjoy.

The recipes have been contributed by Britannia

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