Top 10 Diwali Recipes - Easy Deepavali Sweets and Savories

Here are some Easy Diwali recipes from what I've tried in my kitchen:

The sweets take under 20 minutes, I promise!

 

• Easy Chocolate Brownies (Eggless) - with Step-by-Step pictures (No oven or microwave needed)
   No cooking needed! How easier can it get? :-) Loved by kids and adults alike!

No bake brownies!

• Peda using Gulab Jamun Mix - Super Quick Sweet in 3 minutes!
  So, I had a packet of MTR Gulab Jamun Mix sitting in my pantry and about to expire in a month's time...

Easy Peda with Jamun mix!!

• Maa Laadu (Ladoo) / Maa Urundai - Diwali Sweet

               Only 3 major ingredients required! Beginner Recipe!

MaaLaddu - Beginners' sweet

• (Red) Banana Halwa - Chev vazhai pazha Halwa

                 Totally addictive Halwa from Palakkad, Kerala.

Vaazhaipazha Halwa

• Badam Ladoo/ Laddu - No sugar or ghee added! - 5 Minute Recipe!
   Make this Badam Laddu this Diwali without sugar (in fact no extra sweetener added) or ghee! But tastes nevertheless delicious!

Badam Laddu - no Ghee, no sugar!

• Quick Pal Khoa (Pal Kova) - Indian Sweet in 5 Minutes - Microwave method

                     Foolproof method - Authentic taste without all the sweating

Pal Kova in microwave in just 10 minutes!

• Oats & Dry Fruits 'n' Nuts Ladoo / Laddu - A Healthy Sweet - With No Added Sugar 

                     Rich taste from Dates and Figs yet very low in calories! A great way to make your family   consume some nuts and dry fruits

Little hearts made from rich dry-fruits and healthy oats

• Chocolate Laddu - an innovative sweet with healthy ingredients. Kids and adults alike will love anything that has chocolate, isn't it? 

Chocolate Ladoo! Yay!!

SNACKS / KAARAM:
 

• Thattai - Savory snack for Diwali - Step-by-Step Recipe
  Murukku and Thattai are the most important savory snacks (must-haves) that my mom makes for Deepavali...

Thattai

• Mullu Murukku or Thenguzhal
  Mullu Murukku is our favorite snack, just like every other fried crunchy stuff that we'd love to munch:) It's popularly known as  'murukku' in Singapore and Malaysia. Makes a perfect Diwali item!

Thenkuzhal

• Chivda Mixture - A Quick and Easy Snack
  This is an easier version of the traditional Mixture where you have to make a hundred different things like Kara boondi, Omapudi...

Chivda mixture

So, What are you making this Diwali?