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Tasty Festival Snacks!
Hindu festivals are a time for celebration, joy and of course, delicious food made with love by our families. Think about the special treats your family makes during these festive times.
What’s your favorite homemade snack or sweet that your family prepares during these festivals? Describe it using your senses. How does it taste? Is it hot or cold? Does it make a crunch sound? |
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My favourites are pendas and jalebis!
Riya (10)
Buffalo Grove, Illinois, United States
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My mummy makes very delicious payasam, which means kheer. She prepares it with love and care. She uses milk, sugar or jaggery, and dry fruits. When the payasam is cooking, the whole house smells very nice. She usually makes payasam on festivals and special occasions. I like my mummy’s payasam more than any other sweet because it is tasty and healthy. Eating my mummy’s payasam makes me very happy.
Milan (14)
Valsad, Gujarat, India
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Jay Swaminarayan! My favorite homemade snack is dry fried rice balls. They are spicy and very good.
Vriya Patel (13)
Winnipeg, Canada
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Since February 25 in Melbourne, I promised Mahant Swami that I will do nirjala every Ekadashi. Breakfast on the next day (parna) feels like a festival! Every drop of limbupani is like amrut!! The food, its smell, its texture and taste are heavenly. And knowing that Bapa is raaji on me makes it taste even more special!
Milan Brahmbhatt (7)
San Jose, California, United States
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I help my mom make cupcakes for Diwali and our gurus’ birthdays. The cake is so moist and chocolatey. The icing is so smooth and buttery. Sometimes, we put decorations or colorful sprinkles. We offer the cupcakes for thaal and then enjoy as a family!
Param (6)
Austin, TX, United States
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My favorite homemade sweet is basan (flour) and almond mitie (sweets). It can be cold or hot. It can be eaten in different ways, and one way is to make ice cream from it. You use the ingredients for the mitie, but you put it in the freezer for one day, then when you take it out, you add sugar on top. Then you put it in for one hour, then take it out and wait two minutes so the sugar can come and the ice cream can absorb it. You can eat it with juice or anything liquid.
Gyanvi (8)
Elgin, Illinois, United States
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Jay Swaminarayan! My favourite sweet is gulab jamun. Let me describe it using my five senses: its taste is absolutely amazing (taste); it feels all soft and squishy (touch); it looks fabulous when served with cold vanilla ice cream (sight); it sizzles when being fried in hot oil (sound); and its fragrance is so yummyyy (smell)!
Nishi Dudhat (14)
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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My mom makes kesar ras malai during Diwali. The ras malai is so juicy, milky, soft, and squishy. I really like the sugary taste the most. I feel like eating all of the ras malai we have, but my mom allows only 2 per day. I wish I could learn to make them myself so I can eat them every single day!
Vraj Patel (10)
Philadelphia, PA, United States
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My grandma sends us magas all the way from India. It’s my favorite sweet!
Trisha Patel (8)
Galloway, New Jersey, United States
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My favorite snack my parents make is an Indian sweet called penda. It is a sweet made often in Diwali. It is one of my favourite snacks. I like penda because of how sweet they are.
Dhir (12)
Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
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I like the chocolate coconut rolls my mom made in Annakut. On the inside, there’s coconut. On the outside, there’s chocolate. It tastes yummy. Try it once, and you will like it!
Yashvi (7)
Whippany, New Jersey, United States
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In my family, we make different types of sweets like penda, kaju katri, gulab jamun, laddu, jalebi… In this, I like jalebi the most. It is sweet in taste and its shape is round and round. It is even more delicious with milk or rabdi.
Saavi (6)
Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India
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My favorite homemade sweet my family prepares is kaju katri because it is so soft and delicious.
Ansh (10)
Highland, Indiana, United States
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I like homemade ladoos and pendas!
Aarya (9)
Dayton, New Jersey, United States
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My mummy makes cupcakes during festivals like Diwali. They are so soft and delicious. She also makes chakri or chevdo, and it’s salty and crunchy. We sometimes give it for annakut, and we offer it in our ghar mandir, also.
Devi (11)
Milpitas, California, United States
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