Goans rejoice this Navratri with standard foods

This 12 months, with social distancing norms, the way we celebrate festivals may possibly have altered, but there is no stopping Goans from acquiring innovative ways to rejoice. Even though every single calendar year, men and women wore nine coloured clothes according to the times of Navratri, this calendar year, numerous Goans have began celebrating with Navratri-themed meals as a substitute.

Common Indian delicacies

Vandita Kandolkar, Corlim, who’s been making a coloured delicacy every single day, tells us, “We usually dismiss common foodstuff any time we test to be inventive, but a great deal of our food has strong colours, with no using colouring agents. I have included some prevalent dishes like gajar ka halwa (orange) and idlis (white).” Siddhi Maneriker from Sanquelim built paneer butter masala, kheer, rasam between other things.

Shristi Prabhu Desai from Quepem has involved sabudana papad and khichdi (grey), sheera (orange), payasam (white), beetroot vadi (pink), Goan special khatkhate (yellow) and palak paneer (environmentally friendly). Likewise, Shweta Ilkar made some paneer tikka masala (orange) and rosogullas (white).

Employing bouquets to get colour to meals

Quite a few dwelling chefs have utilised flowers like butterfly pea flower and hibiscus to increase colours. Vandita produced blue pea flower sago kheer (blue) and hibiscus tea (crimson).

Similarly, Tanisi Sinai Kakodkar from Margao made use of butterfly pea bouquets to make her phirni blue in color. “Making a blue dish was pretty challenging. So I questioned around for tips and arrived up with this plan,” she suggests.

Food with a healthy and international twist

While festivals make you binge on a whole lot of food and desserts, some of the foodies have extra a nutritious twist to their dishes. Tanisi added dishes like kiwi smoothie (peacock inexperienced), guacamole (eco-friendly), tomato soup (purple) and lemon bar (yellow).

Ashrafi Gaikwad from Ponda included a nutritious twist to her Navratri festivities with a chia seeds pudding (gray). Navami Prakash from Porvorim has whipped up a black sesame seed ice cream and carrot spice chai.

Truffles, cakes and far more

“The color crimson of Navratri signifies really like, vigour and vitality. So I produced some moist purple velvet truffles. Protected the cake balls with true product cheese frosting and they ended up delicious,” suggests Mahima Shiroor. Ruben Rodrigues manufactured a milk cake and carrot cake, even though Ashrafi built a watermelon jelly (pink) to mark the festivities.