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Banana Pudding w/glazed Pineapple 

Time Taken: 20 mins; Servings: 2; Vegan: Yes 

Gulab Jamoon

Time Taken: 35 mins; Servings:6; Vegan: Yes

Keylime Pudding

Keylime pudding is a super easy-to-make dessert that has both sweet and tart taste to it. It is light and can be enjoyed guilt-free by combining it with fruits of your choice making it one of the healthy eats recipes.

Time Taken: 10 mins

Servings: 2

Vegan: Yes 

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 Ingredients: 

• Keylime pie filling mix
• Bananas - 2
• Almond milk - 2 tsp

How to Make:  

• In a pot, add keylime pie mixture and add almond milk. Keep aside.
• Mix it well and cook on a low flame for 10 mins
• Transfer to a serving container and cool to room temperature (Keeping in the refrigerator is optional)
• Garnish with sliced bananas
• Serve it at room temperature or cold, if desired 

Carrot halwa is a dessert most commonly made in Indian homes. Originally made with a lot of clarified butter (ghee), the healthier version is much easier to eat and is guilt-free. It is a good choice for vegetarian and vegan dessert | rich in color and nutrition and easy to make.

Time Taken: 30 mins

Servings: 4

Vegan: Yes 

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Ingredients:
 

• Carrots - 4
• Cinnamon powder - 2 tsp
• Almond milk - 1/2 cup
• Water - 1 cup
• Brown sugar - 1 cup
• Cashews - 4

How to Make:    

• Wash, peel and grate carrots
• Fill a pan with the grated carrots
• Add water and cook on medium until soft
• Add almond milk and cook for 5 mins
• Add sugar and cook for 10 mins or until the liquid evaporates. The consistency should be a little thicker than pudding.
• Garnish with cinnamon powder, chopped cashews and serve warm.

Rice Pudding or Rice Kheer as is commonly known as in Indian homes is a quick and easy to make dessert and is one of the healthy eats recipes found on our site .

Time Taken: 35 mins

Servings: 4

Vegan: Yes 

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Ingredients:
 

• Rice - 1 cup
• Molasses 1/2 cup
• Cardamom powder - 1/4 tsp
• Nutmeg powder - 1/4 tsp
• Almond milk - 1/2 cup
• Water - 3.5 cups

How to Make:

• Cook rice with water for about 20 mins, until it is extra soft.
• With a ladle mash the hot rice into fine paste.
• It is ok to leave few rice grains coarse.
• Add 1/2 cup of water to the pan, add the rice paste.
• Cook on a low flame for 5 mins.
• Add 1 cup of almond milk and cook for 5 mins.
• Add molasses and cook another 5 mins.
• Garnish with cardamom powder and nutmeg powder.
• Serve hot with potato fritters.

BANANA SWEET - vegetarian and vegan dessert | rich in color and nutrition

Banana Sweet that is also known as Seekarane can be prepared very quick and tasty too.

Time Taken: 5 mins

Servings: 4

Vegan: Yes 

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Ingredients: 

• Ripe Bananas - 4
• Molasses 1/4 cup
• Cardamom powder - 1/4 tsp
• Desiccated coconut powder - 4 tsp

How to Make:

• Mash the ripe bananas.
• Powder molasses coarsely.
• (As an alternative, use brown sugar).
• Add the powdered molasses, desiccated coconut powder.
• Mix well.
• Garnish with cardamom powder.
• Serve by itself as dessert or serve with hot and fresh bread.

Semolina Sajjige is a nutritious dessert filled with aroma and is very easy to make. Include a variety of vegetarian and vegan easy to make colorful dessert in your diet everyday.

Time Taken: 20 mins

Servings: 4

Vegan: Yes 

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Ingredients: 

• Semolina - 2 cups
• Almond powder - 2 tsp 
• White Sugar - 3/4 cup
• Water - 2 cups
• Cardamom powder - 1/4 tsp

• Note: For non-vegan recipe, add a 2 tsp of ghee (clarified butter).

How To Make: 

• Dry roast semolina until golden brown and keep aside.
• Use a pot, add 1.5 cups of water and bring to a boil, about 5 mins.
• Add roasted cream of wheat and almond powder and allow to boil 5 more minutes. 
• Add 3/4 cup of white sugar and boil it 5 mins.
• Check consistency and sprinkle little water if needed.
• Add cardamom powder , a pinch of orange food color and mix well.
• Serve hot with appetizers.

Beet halwa with its rich color and lots of nutrients is a very nutritious dessert. Always include a variety of vegetarian and vegan easy to make colorful dessert in your diet everyday.

Time Taken: 30 mins

Servings: 4

Vegan: Yes 

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Ingredients: 

• Beets - 4
• Oranges - 2
• Cardamom powder - 2 tsp
• Almond milk - 1/2 cup
• Almond powder - 4 tsp
• Water 1 cup
• Sugar 1/4 cup (optional)
• Cashews - 4

How to Make:    

• Wash, peel and grate beets.
• Fill a pan with the grated beets.
• Add water and cook on medium until soft.
• Add the juice of 2 oranges.
• Add almond powder and almond milk and cook for 5 mins.
• Add sugar (optional) and cook for 10 mins or until the liquid is almost dried.
• The consistency should be a little thicker than the pudding.
• Garnish with cardamom powder, chopped cashews and serve warm.

Chia Bowl is a healthy and satisfying meal anytime of the day. Look for our easy healthy eats recipes throughout the site.

 Time Taken: 15 mins; Servings: 2; Vegan: Yes

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Ingredients:

• Chia seeds  - 1 cup
• Fresh Fruits - mango, banana
• Almond powder - 2 tsp 
• Almond Milk - 1 cup
• Brown Sugar - 1/2 cup
• Cardamom powder - 1/4 tsp
• Water 0.5 cup

How To Make:

• Slice or dice fresh fruits and keep aside.
• Use a pot, add 0.5 cup of water and add chia seeds.
• Add 1 cup of almond milk and brown sugar and boil it 10 mins.
• Keep stirring continuously.
• Check for desired consistency.
• Add sugar (optional), cardamom powder and mix well.
• Garnish with fresh fruits and serve hot.

• Note: For non-vegan version, you could add 2 tsp of Greek yogurt.

Moringa Sweet  is actually a bitter sweet dish that has tons of health benefits. Look for other healthy eats recipes at sasyahaari.com

Time Taken: 15 mins; Servings: 6; Vegan: Yes

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Ingredients:

• Moringa Powder - 2 tsp
• Almond Powder - 4 tsp
• Finger Millet Powder - 2 tsp
• Dry Fruits - Craisins, Raisins - 2 tsp
• Almond Milk - 2 tsp
• Brown Sugar - 1/2 cup
• Cardamom powder - 1/4 tsp
• Coconut Oil - 1 tsp

How To Make:

• Dry roast moringa powder, almond powder, finger millet powder for 5 mins.
• Add craisins or raisins and brown sugar.
• Add cardamom powder and mix well.
• Add 1 tsp of coconut oil.
• Add 2 tsp of milk.
• Mix well and allow to cool a bit.
• Make tiny balls using the palm of the hand.
• Serve with masala chai tea.

Sweet Potato Pudding with little to no sugar has a lot of fibers and provide abundance health benefits. Look for other vegetarian and vegan dessert | rich in color and nutrition recipes on sasyahaari.com

Time Taken: 25 mins; Servings: 6; Vegan: Yes

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Ingredients:

• Sweet Potatoes - 2
• Almond Powder - 2 tsp
• Dry Fruits - Craisins, Raisins - 2 tsp
• Brown Sugar - 3 tsp (optional)
• Cardamom powder - 1/4 tsp
• Cinnamon powder - 1/4 tsp
• Coconut Oil or Clarified Butter - 1 tsp

How To Make:

• Pressure cook sweet potatoes for 10 mins.
• Remove skin and mash the boiled sweet potatoes.
• In a pan add mashed sweet potato, almond powder and cook on low for 5 mins.
• Add craisins or raisins and brown sugar.
• Add cinnamon and cardamom powder and mix well.
• Add 1 tsp of coconut oil or clarified butter.
• Mix well.
• Serve it hot with potato fritters on the side.

Fried Dough Bites with its rich flavor and easy to find ingredients are filled with nutrition. It is also known as attrasa or attirasa.

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Time Taken: 25 mins; Servings: 6; Vegan: Yes

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Ingredients:

• Rice Flour - 2 cups
• Almond Powder - 2 tsp
• Desiccated Coconut - 4 tsp
• Brown Sugar - 1.5 cup
• Water - 3/4 cup
• Cardamom powder - 1/2 tsp
• Coconut Oil for frying - 1 cup
• pinch of salt
• Powdered Sugar - 1 tsp

How To Make:

• In a container add rice flour, almond powder and pinch of salt.
• Add 1/4 tsp cardamom powder. Mix well and keep aside.
• In another pan add brown sugar and 3/4 cup water.
• Add 1/4 tsp  cardamom powder and mix well.
• Keep it to boil and make 1 thread consistency syrup.
• Add the hot syrup to the rice flour mix.
• Mix well and keep it aside for 15 mins.
• Make gold sized balls and flatten a bit with the palm.
• In the meantime heat the oil for frying.
• Deep fry in hot oil until golden brown.
• Sprinkle powdered sugar and serve it warm.

Sweet Potato Lentil HoLige has a lot of fibers and plant protein providing abundance health benefits. An innovative vegetarian and vegan dessert | rich in color and nutrition.

This is a variation from the traditional variety, in order to include fibers in addition to proteins and other nutritious ingredients.

Time Taken: 40 mins

Servings: 6

Vegan: Yes 

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Ingredients: 

For the filling:

• Sweet Potatoes - 1
• Split Chickpea - 1 cup
• Cardamom powder - 2 tsp
• Almond powder - 6 tsp
• Desiccated Coconut Powder - 2 tsp
• Molasses - 1/4 tsp

• For the bread :
• Whole wheat flour - 1 cup
• Fine Semolina - 1/2 cup
• Water - 1/2 cup
• Coconut oil - 1/2 cup

How to Make:    

Dough for bread:

• Mix whole wheat flour, semolina 1/4 water and 1/4 cup coconut oil. 
• Add extra water few drops at a time, if dough is too thick.
• Knead well and keep aside.

Filling for the bread:

• Dry roast split chickpea (kadalebeLe) 2 mins for the nice aroma.
• Wash, peel and pressure cook sweet potatoes and roasted split chickpea until soft.
• Remove excess water and keep aside. You could use it with soup later.
• Mash the cooked sweet potatoes and split chickpea.
• Add molasses, cardamom powder, almond powder, desiccated coconut powder.
• Stir continuously and cook for 15 mins. 
• The consistency should be thick, so that it can be used as filling.
• Use this as a filling for the bread.
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• Take a golf ball sized dough, roll it to 4 inch and fill with 2 tsp of the prepared filling.
• Cover the filling with the dough. Roll it lightly into thin wraps.
• Cook on a heated pan by turning sides and smearing coconut oil on both sides, until golden brown.
• Serve warm with tea.

Note: To make the non-vegan version, one could use clarified butter in place of coconut oil.

Sweet Potato Halwa with its natural sweetness and its rich color has lots of nutrients and is a very nutritious dessert. 

Time Taken: 30 mins

Servings: 4

Vegan: Yes 

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Ingredients: 

• Sweet Potatoes - 4
• Cinnamon powder - 2 tsp
• Almond milk - 1/2 cup
• Almond powder - 4 tsp
• Sugar - 4 tsp
• Rose Syrup - 2 tsp
• Roasted Cashews - 4

How to Make:    

• Wash, peel and boil sweet potatoes until soft.
• Mash the cooked sweet potatoes.
• Add almond milk and cook on medium for 5 mins.
• Add almond powder and sugar and cook for 10 mins.
• The consistency should be a little thicker than the pudding.
• Garnish with rose syrup, cinnamon powder, roasted chopped cashews and serve warm.

Gulab Jamoon with its traditional rich flavor of dry milk is an easy to make dessert, and most popular in Indian festive events. 

Check out this healthier version.

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Time Taken: 35 mins; Servings: 6; Vegan: Yes

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Ingredients:

• White Flour - 1 cup
• Almond Powder - 1 cup
• Salt - 1/10 tsp
• Baking Soda - 1/2 tsp
• Brown Sugar - 1.5 cup
• Water - 3/4 cup
• Cardamom powder - 1/2 tsp
• Olive Oil for frying - 1 cup
• Desiccated Coconut - 4 tsp
• Powdered Sugar - 1 tsp

How To Make: 

• In a container add white flour, almond powder, baking soda and pinch of salt.
• Add 1/2 cup water and mix lightly. Keep aside for 15 mins.

• In a pan, take one cup water, 1.5 cups sugar.
• Boil to make sugar syrup of 1 thread consistency.
• Add 1/4 tsp cardamom powder. Mix well and keep aside.

• Take the white flour mix and make small sized balls using light pressure of the palm.

• Heat the oil for frying.
• Deep fry or shallow fry the above flour balls in medium hot oil, by turning sides, until golden brown.

• Transfer all fried balls into the sugar syrup and allow it to soak in it for about 20 mins.
• Take out each of the soaked jamoon and roll in desiccated coconut.
• Sprinkle powdered sugar and serve it warm.

• Note : Traditionally this dessert is made with dry milk and soaked in lot of sugar syrup. 
• Here, at Sasyahaari Healthy Eating, we ask you to try this healthier dry Gulab jamoon.
• It can also be made more healthier by air frying or shallow frying and not deep frying.

Banana Pudding with Glazed Pineapple is super easy to make and healthy too.

Time Taken: 20 mins

Servings: 2

Vegan: Yes 

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Ingredients: 

• Banana Pudding Mix - 4 tsp
• Bananas - 1
• Pineapple pieces - 1 cup
• Sugar 2 tsp
• Almond milk - 1 cup
• Water 1 cup + 2 tsp
• Cinnamon Powder - 1 tsp

How to Make:  

• Chop banana into fine pieces and keep aside.
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• Take a pot. Add sugar and 2 tsp water to pineapple pieces.
• Cook on low 10 mins and keep aside.
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• In a pot, add banana pudding mix and add tap cold water.
• Stir to form a smooth paste.
• Mix it well and cook on a low flame for 5 mins.
• Cool to room temperature.
• Add chopped banana pieces.
• Keeping in the refrigerator is optional.
• Garnish with glazed pineapple pieces.
• Drizzle cinnamon powder.
• Serve it at room temperate or cold if desired.

Layered Graham Cake is super easy to make and is nutritious and tasty too.

Time Taken: 30 mins

Servings: 12

Vegan: Yes 

Chilling Time - 4 hours

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Ingredients: 

• Graham Crakers - 1 big box
• Vegan Vanilla Pudding Mix - 4 tsp
• Sour Cream - 2 cups
• Sugar 4 tsp
• Almond milk - 1 cup
• Water 2 cups
• Spices Powder - 1 tsp
• Instant Coffee Powder - 1/2 tsp
• Whipped Cream - 1 jar

How to Make:  

• Using 2 cups water and 1 cup almond milk, and sugar, make the vegan pudding as per the instructions and keep aside.

• In a pot, add sour cream, honey, coffee powder and  mix it thoroughly.
• Stir to dissolve the honey crystals and coffee granules to form a smooth paste.

• Layer the Graham crackers in a baking pan.
• Layer pudding on top the graham crackers.
• Layer another layer of graham crackers,
• Layer the sour cream mixture on top of graham crackers.
• Repeat until all the mixes are complete.
• Top it with whipped cream.

• Keep in the refrigerator for about 4 hours or overnight.
• Drizzle cocoa powder on the top.

• Scoop out to get all layers and serve it cold.