We can make sweets by using Healthy Sweet Recipes. Every home has their plans for the celebrations. The celebration plan may include lights of different colors, sizes and shapes and of course forms too.

Nevertheless, it includes binge eating and mindless and off focus eating and drinking. Christmas & New Year is a time when varieties of sweets (Mithaiya or Mithai), oily and deep fried food is aided and it gets challenging for any human specially for people suffering from diabetes; to take ultimate care of what they eat and when they eat. Diabetes is a lifestyle disease and a good control can be made if paid heed to the dietary intake.

In the season of festivals what all prefer is to eat something sweet every day using Healthy Sweet Recipes. But caution, comes with the side effects of the SWEETS bring with them. Sweets play a vital role during the festive season. Population of today are more pre-diabetic or diabetic therefore they are more prone to many chronic diseases and by bringing on sweets this festive season or the festive month it can be dangerous. So the best part is do not pile on and do badly to your health. Rather, try something nutritious like healthy low calories sweets and keep yourself hale and hearty.

These homemade sweets can be also referred as Guilt Free Sweets or Healthy Sweet Recipes.

Here we go, the most awaited and saved Healthy sweet recipes include:

1. Oats laddu

2. LaukiKheer or Ghiyekikheer

3. Paneerkikheer

4. Ragi oats Ladoo

Oats Laddu

Ingredients

Plain Oats                    ¾ Cup
Sooji                             ¼ Cup
Stevia powder            ¼ Cup
Ghee                            ¼ Cup
Cardamom powder  ½tsp

 Method

1. Roast the Sooji (semolina) in a pan without oil.
2. Let it cool down for some time.
3. Meanwhile, roast oats in a different pan.
4. Let it cool down for 20 minutes.
5. Grind it into fine powder and pour it in a bowl.
6. Put the pan on fire.
7. Add Ghee in the pan. Let it melt.
8. Add the powdered oats into the pan.
9.Mix it well
10. Add Sooji (semolina) to it. Add mix it well.
11. Add stevia powder. Mix it well
12. Add cardamom powder and mix it well.
13. Turn off the fire.
14. Put the whole mixture in a plate.
15. Allow it to cool for 10 minutes.
16. Apply some ghee over your palms.
17. Make small balls of the batter into ladoos.
18. Oats ladoo are ready to be served.

Lauki Kheer or Ghiye ki kheer

Ingredients

Low fat milk                           500 ml
Lauki (Grated)                       100 gm
Sugar substitute                     20 gm or 15 drops
Almonds                                  10 nos
Cashew                                    5 nos
Raisins                                     5 nos
Cardamom powder               ½ – 1 tsp( depending on taste)
Green Pista                             5-8 nos
Saffron                                     10 leaves

 Method

1. Put the milk in a pan and allow it to boil.
2. Transfer it into the pressure cooker.
3. Add lauki( ghiye or bottle gourd) into it.
4. Add 5 Saffron leaves.
5. Let it whistle the cooker twice or thrice.
6. Cut all Almonds, Cashew nuts, Green Pishta, Raisins into small parts.
7. Add Sugar and Cardamom powder to the thicken milk.
8. Stir the mixture.
9. Pour it in the bowl.
10. Garnish it with cut dry fruits and Saffron.
    

    Paneer ki kheer

Ingredients

Low fat milk                             500 ml
Cottage cheese ( Paneer)      50 gm
Sugar substitute                     20 gms or 15 drops
Almonds                                  10 nos
Cashew                                    5 nos
Raisins                                      5 nos
Cardamom powder              ½ – 1 tsp (depending on taste)
Green Pishta                          5-8 nos
Saffron                                    10 leaves

Method

1. Put the milk in a pan and allow it to boil.
2. Add 5 Saffron leaves.
3. Put the fire on sim and left it for 20-30 minutes and let it thicken up.
4. Cut the cottage cheese into small cubes.
5. Cut all Almonds, Cashew nuts, Green Pishta, Raisins into small parts.
6. Add Sugar and Cardamom powder to the thicken milk.
7. Stir the mixture.
8. Add cubes of cottage cheese.
9. Let it boil. (Do not stop stirring).
10. Pour it in the bowl.
11. Garnish it with cut dry fruits and Saffron.

 Ragi Oats Ladoo

Ingredients
Ragi flour                       1½ cup
Oats flour1 cup
Dates (ripe)                    20
Milk                                 ½ cup
Ghee                                1 Tbsp
Cardamom powder       1tsp
White sesame seeds      ¼ cup
Coconut powder             ¼ cup
Cashew nuts                    12
Stevia powder/ drops    10 gms/ 8 drops

Method

1. Lightly roast
2. Let it cool down for 30 minutes.
3. Grind it in the grinder.
4. Take out the seeds of 15 dates and blend it with milk. Make it a paste.
5. Dice the remaining dates.
6. Roast white sesame seeds and cashew nuts.
7. Put some ghee in the pan and let it melt.
8. Add oats flour. Mix it well and roast it.
9. Put some ghee in he another pan and let it mel.
10. Add Ragi flour. Mix it well and roast it.
11. Mix both the flour and add the remaining ghee to it.
12. Add dates pastes to the flour mixture.
13. Add stevia, cardamom powder and mix well.
14. Allow it to cool down for about 10 minutes.
15. Add the diced dates.
16. Apply some ghee over your palms.
17. Make small balls of the batter into ladoos.
18. Roll the laddoos over sesame seeds and coconut powder.
19. Add cashew on each ladoo.
20. Ladoo are ready to be served.
    

    PUMPKIN OATS CAKE

Ingredients
Grated pumpkin                      250 g
Stevia                                         ¼ cup
Wheat flour                              ½  cup
Sooji (Semolina)                      2 Tbsp
Plain oats                                  2 Tbsp
Skimmed milk                          1 Tbsp
Grated nutmeg                        ¼ tsp
Salt                                             1 pinch
Baking powder                         ½ tsp
Baking soda                              2 pinch
Butter                                        4 Tbsp
Almond flex                              2 Tbsp
Cherry                                        1 no

Method

1. In a medium sized microwave bowl. Mix the grated pumpkin and 2 teaspoon of butter.
2. Microwave for 3 minutes.
3. Add stevia to it and mix well.
4. Microwave again for 20 seconds.
5. Add wheat flour, semolina,oats, skimmed milk, nutmeg, salt, baking soda, baking powder to the pumpkin mixture and mix well.
6. Preheat the oven.
7. Let this mixture rest for 10 minutes.
8. Grease a microwave proof bowl with a little ghee and then pour the mixture in it.
9. Bake for 20 minutes on 200⁰
10. Remove the bowl from oven
11. Sprinkle some almond flex and little ghee on top.
12. Bake again for 20 minutes on 200⁰C
13. Decorate it with a cherry.

These are some of the Healthy Sweet Recipes that will help you to lose the weight and are nutrient dense.

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