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Navratri Vrat Salad: Easy, Quick, And High-Protein Fasting Meal
Navratri Vrat Salad
28 mins
Cooking Time
Easy
Difficulty
11
Ingredients
Veg + Dairy
Diet
This Navratri vrat salad recipe is a high-protein, quick-fix meal ideal that will help you meet your daily nutritional needs even when fasting. The recipe is full of flavours, requires minimal prep and cooking, and uses a simple dressing that packs flavour in every bite.
The star ingredient, or rather the base of the dish, comes from paneer and raw papaya. Both get tossed with a thecha-inspired dressing. Thecha is a spicy condiment from Maharashtra which usually requires garlic. However, since this is a Navratri vrat salad recipe, it skips garlic. You can add it when preparing the salad on non-fasting days — because this recipe is going to become a part of your daily meal routine.
You can enjoy this high-protein Navratri vrat salad with a cup of tea, hot or cold coffee, coconut water, or even banana shake. It works as a light lunch, a filling evening snack, or an flavourful side for a dinner of sabudana vada or tikki. You can adjust the spicy levels by reducing or increasing the amount of chillies used. You can also skip the raisins if you don’t like their taste or texture in a salad. So measure the ingredients, begin the prep, and enjoy a delicious, home-made salad!
Ingredients
UNITSIngredients
150 gPaneer
50 g Raw papaya, julienned
30 gRaw peanuts
1 tspSesame
85 gGreek Yoghurt
2 or 3 Green chillies
to tasteSendha namak
6-8Raisins
2-3Walnuts, halved
1Lemon
10 gCoriander
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