Happy Diwali to all! May the festival of lights light up your homes with love,good health and joy. And may it fire up your kitchen with enough warmth to provide comforting and indulgent foods through out the year for your family.!
Keep it simple. Minimal ingredients and fewer steps. That seems to be my new mantra in the kitchen. Of course, my recent RA diagnosis has a lot to do with it. I cannot do any less cooking and baking because cooking is what keeps me going. It has a therapeutic effect more than any medication can provide. So this Diwali too I have been making the traditional sweets …pains and aches can wait,Diwali is here! And thanks to my wonderful husband who is always ready to provide me a helping hand in the kitchen whenever I need it. So we made Besan laddoos, murukkus and chivda. When it comes to Diwali sweets, I have always found it hard to control myself and found myself gorging up on all of them. This year though it is going to be hard since I am on a gluten free and dairy free diet. I therefore wanted to make a new sweet that I could eat! It would be gluten and dairy free and still be something enticing! I kept thinking what I should make and then finally came up with this mango and coconut halwa. Not surprising since coconut and mangoes are two of my favorite ingredients when it comes to sweets! I did not want to use any dairy so used cashew powder to enable the binding. Keeping in mind my latest mantra of simplicity, I decided to try making it in the microwave. So one bowl – 4 ingredients and 8 minutes later you end with this gorgeous piece of halwa that is so downright irresistible.!
Bringing these delicious ‘feel good’ Diwali treats to our neighborhood Diwali party as well as Fiesta Friday too this week!
This Halwa is very new to me with my favorite ingredients mango and coconut..Would love to this soon for my family Indu….
yes do try …very easy
Beautiful pictures, I love seeing images of Diwali as it is such a pretty holiday 🙂
Hope you had a lovely holiday!
thanks so much. Yes Diwali indeed lights up your spirits because of the lights and the fancy sweets! 🙂
I bet these are filled with flavor. They look delicious!
yes Arl its really a quick n easy treat filled with tropical flavors! 🙂
Yummy this sounds so good!! This Halwa stuff is something I really want to try, I had never herd of it until very recently with everyone talking about their sweeties for the Diwali festival. Thanks for sharing your version of this with us at Fiesta Friday. I love the flavours of well everything in this!
Hi yes Halwa is nothing but a soft fudge and there are umpteen varieties of it as you may have seen already! This one must be really one of the easiest versions of halwa and so delicious too! thanks for stopping by!
What a great combination for fudge Indu – love mango and coconut and it sounds perfect for your celebration. Thanks for coming to the party and sharing with Fiesta Friday 🙂
You are welcome Judy! Yes I love mangoes and I love coconut but had never paired them both until now. And the verdict – simply superb! 🙂
Awww simply delicious. Love the combo of mango and coconut
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thanks Sowmia. Yes two of my fav ingredients! 🙂
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Happy Diwali Indu! Love this intriguing fudge.
thanks Johanne. Yes its indeed very tasty!
Mmmmm I love the mixture of tropical flavors! Looks gorgeous too with the different colors!
Yes mango and coconut are two of my favorite fruits too! And the color came out really great! 🙂
Happy Diwali, Indu. Your fudge looks really good! 🙂
thank you Linda.:)