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Try This Special Gujarati Handvo Recipe For Your Navratri 2026 Vrat
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News18•12-10-2026, 09:15
Try This Special Gujarati Handvo Recipe For Your Navratri 2026 Vrat
- •The Gujarati special Handvo combines samak rice and rajgira flour with potatoes, peanuts, curd, and spices for a delicious vrat-friendly meal.
- •Chef Shreya Agarwala shared this recipe on Instagram, offering a healthy alternative to traditional deep-fried fasting snacks.
- •Navratri fasting rules vary by region, but commonly permit grains like buckwheat, amaranth, barnyard millet, and tapioca pearls.
- •The recipe involves making a coarse batter of samak rice and rajgira flour, adding a tempering, and cooking it on a tawa with oil or ghee.
- •Serve the warm, crisp-on-the-outside Handvo with farali chutney or curd for a satisfying and comforting fasting experience.
Key Questions Answered
Farali Handvo is made using soaked and coarsely ground samak rice, rajgira flour, curd, a grated boiled potato, crushed peanuts, ginger-green chili paste, sugar, sendha namak, and a tempering of cumin seeds, curry leaves, and oil or ghee.
Devotees during Navratri typically avoid regular wheat and rice, choosing vrat-friendly options like kuttu, singhara, rajgira, samak rice, and sabudana instead.
Lightly grease a tawa over low-medium heat, pour in the batter, and spread it evenly into a thick round. Cover and cook for 5 to 7 minutes until the underside is golden and crisp, then carefully flip and cook the other side for another 5 to 7 minutes.
