By Garima Johar
August 24, 2026
Are you fasting on all Mondays of the Sawan month? It can be easy to run out of ideas of what to cook without adding onion, garlic, or even salt. If you need ideas, tap and explore satvik options for your vrat.
Potatoes are the go-to vegetable while fasting. The easiest vrat recipe would be the comforting dahi aloo.
Sabudana khichdi is a vrat-friendly dish made with sabudana, potatoes, peanuts, green chillies, and spices.
If you’re not using table salt, having curd as is can be difficult. But you can make the healthy beetroot raita.
You can make sabudana tikki for Sawan Somwar with mashed potatoes, soaked sabudana and a blend of spices.
For something sweet, you can make singhare ki kheer with milk, sugar, water chestnuts, and nuts.