Healthy Cadbury Chocolate Recipes For Gandhi Jayanti- Using Jaggery and Millets

2nd October, the day popularly known as ‘Gandhi Jayanti’, celebrates the birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi, the ‘Father of the Nation’. While we often discuss the revered leader’s role in India’s freedom movement, Mahatma Gandhi’s vision and understanding of the world can never be constricted within the walls of law and politics alone. His resolute advocacy of eco-friendly, sustainable practices, simple eating, and a minimalistic lifestyle represents his meticulous understanding and seminal vision on the conservation of this planet for a healthier future.

Gandhi’s simplistic dietary philosophy, which was based on minimalism and non-violence, has earned the moniker of ‘Gandhian Diet’. It encompassed a raw and plant-based diet with a specific focus on local resources and unprocessed foods such as fruits, vegetables, pulses, and millets, while avoiding refined sugars, salt, and processed items.

While the traditional recipes of Indian sweets and desserts often incorporate milk, khoya, clarified butter, fresh cheese, chenna, cream, and other dairy products, several desserts can be prepared using healthy, minimalistic ingredients. These healthy alternatives to the traditional recipes don’t take away the taste and flavor. Instead, they make the experience of eating guilt-free and align the items with your dietary preferences. As we remember the great visionary on his birthday, here we have crafted a list of alternate recipes to celebrate Gandhi Jayanti with Cadbury sweets.

Celebrating Gandhi Jayanti with Cadbury sweets: 7 Healthy Cadbury Chocolate Recipes

Millet Chocolate Cookies

Don’t we all love chocolate cookies with crunchy edges and chewy interiors? While the answer is yes, often we feel guilty after eating a few of them, as they contain flour and refined sugar. To get rid of the guilt, this Gandhi Jayanti, let’s try these millet chocolate cookies where health meets taste like never before. To make this healthy alternative, take millet flour, ghee or butter, powdered jaggery, and baking powder in a bowl and prepare a cookie dough. Bake them in a pre-heated oven for 20 minutes and serve them hot and crispy.

Millet Pudding

To make this millet-based dessert, heat the pan and add ghee and roast millet flour for a few minutes. Once done, add milk to the dry roasted millets and boil them until they achieve a thick consistency. Add jaggery as the natural sweetener and garnish with dry fruits. Serve hot or chilled as per your preference.

Millet Chocolate Pancakes

While pancakes are a global comfort food, a recipe twisted with millet, chocolate, and jaggery can take care of your health better. To make these healthy yet tasty pancakes, mix all the dry ingredients in one bowl, which includes millet flour, salt, baking powder, and jaggery. Mix the wet ingredients, egg, oil, and milk in a separate mixing bowl. Combine both ingredients properly and prepare the millet pancakes over a medium flame. Add a syrup of your choice and serve.

Millet-Jaggery-Chocolate Cake

This one-bowl millet chocolate cake recipe is ideal for health-conscious dessert lovers. To make this millet-jaggery-chocolate cake, you can use just one bowl for dry and wet ingredients. Mix millet, baking soda, salt, jaggery powder, eggs, melted chocolate, and milk to prepare the batter and bake it in a pre-heated oven for 30 minutes. Once done, remove it from the oven and allow it to rest for 5-10 minutes. Now, take it out of the cake tin and enjoy the soft chocolatey goodness!

Millet-Jaggery-Chocolate Halwa

Halwa is a popular dessert option in the Indian dessert palette. This Gandhi Jayanti, let’s give the traditional recipe a healthy twist with millet, jaggery, and a hint of chocolate. Traditionally, halwa is prepared by roasting different flours (like wheat flour, gram flour etc.) or semolina (sooji) in ghee. Here, you can use millet flour as a replacement for a healthier twist. Once roasted properly, add warm water, melted chocolate, and jaggery ( not sugar), and mix them well over a medium flame to get that creamy texture. Cadbury Dairy Milk’s sustainably sourced cocoa is ideal for the gooey, creamy consistency. Before serving the healthy and tasty millethalwa, don’t forget to garnish it with dry fruits.

Chocolate Kheer With Millet and Jaggery

Kheer is an integral part of any auspicious ceremony for most Indian households. The quintessential rich and creamy Indian dessert is typically made from rice, thickened milk, and spices. But what about giving it a millet-based healthy spin, replacing the rice? And if we have Cadbury Dairy Milk, why not give it a chocolatey spin as well? Millet turns the traditional recipe into a gluten-free, healthy chocolate kheer made with jaggery as the natural sweetener.

Kheer has several regional versions, which also incorporate ingredients such as vermicelli, semolina, and several other things. In this recipe, primary ingredients, including millet, are combined with boiled milk and blended with jaggery and melted chocolate, and cooked well to form the creamy and enriching kheer dessert. The thickened milk is often flavored with spices and garnished with crushed dry fruits like pistachios and almonds, which further elevate its texture.

Dry Fruits and Jaggery Ladoo

While the traditional laddoo recipes are full of sugar and ghee, this healthy recipe brings an alternate delicacy made with chopped dry fruits and seeds, all merged with the natural sweetness of jaggery. To make these balls full of natural goodness, start by chopping dry fruits like almonds, walnuts, cashews, and raisins. Once done, lightly roast them in ghee. Next, add jaggery and mix all the ingredients well on medium heat. Let it cool slightly, and then shape the mixture into small balls and garnish them with shredded coconut for extra flavor and texture.