Prasad Recipes for Every Festival
Prasad made at home with love — with the story behind each dish and tips for finding ingredients if you live outside India.
Chhath Puja
Rasiao Kheer (Gur ki Kheer)
Rasiao is rice cooked in milk and sweetened with jaggery — the prasad of Kharna, the second day of Chhath, eaten by the vrati before the…
⏱ 60 min
Thekua
Thekua is the crisp, jaggery-sweetened wheat cookie that is the most important prasad of Chhath Puja, offered in the soop to the setting…
⏱ 50 min
Diwali
Besan Ladoo
Besan ladoo — gram flour slow-roasted in ghee and sweetened — is one of the most loved Diwali sweets and a favourite offering to Ganesha…
⏱ 40 min
Durga Puja
Bhoger Khichuri
Bhoger khichuri — gobindobhog rice and roasted moong dal cooked with ghee and whole spices — is the bhog served at Durga Puja pandals…
⏱ 55 min
Ganesh Chaturthi
Ukadiche Modak (Steamed Modak)
Ukadiche modak — steamed rice-flour dumplings filled with coconut and jaggery — are Lord Ganesha's favourite sweet and the classic…
⏱ 55 min
Holi
Janmashtami
Dhaniya Panjiri
Dhaniya panjiri — roasted coriander-seed powder with sugar, ghee and makhana — is offered to Bal Gopal at midnight on Janmashtami.
⏱ 20 min
Navratri
Kuttu ki Puri
Puris made from kuttu (buckwheat) flour and mashed potato — a classic Navratri fasting bread, eaten with aloo sabzi or curd.
⏱ 30 min
Sabudana Khichdi
Sabudana khichdi — soaked tapioca pearls with peanuts, potato and green chilli — is the most popular Navratri vrat (fasting) dish.
⏱ 25 min
Satyanarayan Puja
Panchamrit
Panchamrit ("five nectars") is a mixture of milk, curd, ghee, honey and sugar used to bathe the deity and shared as prasad in Satyanarayan…
⏱ 5 min
Sooji Sheera (Satyanarayan Prasad)
Sheera — semolina roasted in ghee and cooked with milk, sugar and banana — is the traditional prasad of Satyanarayan Puja.
⏱ 25 min