What’s a festival without sweets? For all you diet-conscious, diabetes-fearing brothers and sisters, here are some recipes for sugar-free sweets that are also low in calories and come with a healthy twist!
Check out these 5 sugar-free low calorie sweets:
1. Coconut halwa
Ingredients:-
8 teaspoons of virgin coconut oil
100 ml coconut milk
100 gm of dry coconut powder
A few saffron strands
Any calorie-free sweetener or 6g stevia
Powdered cardamon
A few cashews, pistachios, and almonds
Method:-
- Pour some coconut oil into a kadhai and add coconut powder to it
- On low flame for 8 minutes, stirring the powder till it becomes slightly brown in color
- Add coconut milk, stevia, cardamom powder, and saffron strands to it and keep stirring for 10 minutes
- Wait till the mixture starts releasing oil and moisture is absorbed
- Turn off the gas and finally garnish it with cashews, almonds, and pistachio
Serve it hot
2. Jaggery almond ladoos
Ingredients:-
50 g of amaranth seeds (popped)
50 ml melted jaggery
30g almond
Method:-
- Add all the ingredients to a bowl
- Make small balls by mixing them well
- Garnish it with some saffron and serve it
3. Sugar-free oats kheer
Ingredients
1 cup of oats
1/2 litre milk
4-5 dates
A few almonds
1 banana
2 cardamoms
A Few raisins
Method
- For 5 minutes, roast the oats
- In a kadhai, add milk, dates, almonds, raisins, and cardamom and boil it for 5 minutes
- Add oats later and boil it till it becomes thick
- Lastly add banana pieces for garnishing and serve it cool
4. Low-fat, sugar-free gajar halwa
Ingredients:
2 cups grated carrot
1 cup low-fat milk
1 tbsp ghee
1/4th cup chopped dates
¼ tbsp cardamom powder
Method:
- In a pressure cooker, heat ghee, add the carrots and saute for 5 minutes on a medium flame
- Add dates and ¾ cup of low-fat milk and mix it well
- Pressure cook for 2 whistles
- Add the remaining 1/4th cup of milk and cardamom powder and mix it well
- Cook for 4 minutes on medium flame and keep stirring it continuously
- Serve the halwa hot
5. Quinoa kheer
Ingredients:
50gm quinoa
200 ml unsweetened almond milk
8gm stevia
A few powdered cardamom seeds
A few saffron strands
A few almonds and pistachios
Method:
- In water for 20 minutes rinse and soak quinoa
- Cook the quinoa for 10 minutes on medium flame
- Once it becomes soft, add almond milk, stevia, saffron, and cardamom
- On low flame cook for 10 minutes and stir it
- Lastly garnish it with almonds and pistachios and serve it hot
