Religious fasts are very common. Coming up with various reasons to avoid regular meals and bring the focus over to taking care of oneself is the whole idea. The rules and regulations of many such fasts call for lighter eats or abstinence from food. For instance, fruits are the most preferred ones during fast.
Think about why fruits are the preferred foods during a fast.
it is a quick and zero fuss option
Caters to detox elements
light on the stomach are fruit fasts
lots of fibre and antioxidants.
Health perspective fasts are the ones that attract me more than religious fast.
Nevertheless, I am not a regular fast to lose weight kind of person. I would rather prefer,6 small meals with lighter choices.
One of the easy Indian inspired ones that love to pack up and feast on a fast is a fruit-based chaat. A mixture of fruits, a tiny bit of tang from the chaat masala (omit if you are doing a religious fast) and the minerals from crushed black salt I love it.
Red fleshed guavas
While visiting India, I grabbed these red and juicy guavas and literally hogged on them. When that was getting a bit boring for the kids, I introduced the amrood anar chaat and they got back on it right away. So here is the simple and easy guava pomegranate salad with Indian spices. The recipe works well with white regular guava also and sits perfectly well in the lunch box. Throw in a base of baby spinach, a handful of pepitas when you are trying to make this a whole lunch rather than aside. All said and done, you can’t get over the lovely hues of reds when you have this chaat. If you have more guavas, don’t forget to try the guava fresca.
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Amrood aur anar fruit chaat
Equipment
- Cutting board
- Fruit Knife
- mixing bowls and spoons.
Ingredients
Fruits needed
- 2 medium guava (red or white fleshed)
- 1 cup pomegranate seeds
- 4 tbsp boiled peanuts
The flavourings
- 1/4 tsp roasted cumin powder
- 1/4 tsp black salt
- 1/4 tsp chaat masala (omit if fasting for religious reasons)
- 1/8 tsp red chilli powder
- 1 tsp Lemon juice
garnish
- 1-2 sprig mint leaves for garnish
Instructions
- In a bowl, mix the roasted cumin powder, red chilli powder,chaat masala and black salt. Set aside
- Wash and slice or dice the guava .
- Peel the pomegranate and collect 1 cup of arils.
- Drain teh boiled peanuts and break the pods to get the soft peanuts.
- In a mixing bowl toss the fruits and peanuts and spinkle the dry mix of spices. Now add lemon juice and toss well.
- Serve garnished with mint leaves.
That salad looks gorgeous. I haven’t eaten these pink guavas in years, I’m suddenly craving some after seeing this now 😀
Yes Freda I went berserk when I saw them after a long time too. This is the fag end of them… but so yumm.
Such a lovely combination of guava and pomegranate, not only a feast for the eyes but for the tummy too. Lovely clicks.
Thanks Mayuri di. It was a beutiful combo of reds, with bowls from my MIL’s collection.
I love guava!!! Takes me back to school days when we used to buy cut guava from the vendor outside our school and he used to rub it with black salt and red chili powder. Adding roasted cumin and chaat masala will be so tasty! And I can imagine how pomegranate and peanuts will add a crunchy and juicy texture to the salad! Thanks for sharing 🙂
That’s true it is a true delight to have the chilli powder and salt sprinkled guavas. this recipes surely carry those flavours too.
What a colorful platter!!! I m always looking for these pink colored guavas!!! I dont why i never find them!!! Look at them, paired with pomos, they looks spectacular!!!
I just go crazy when I see the red guavas and hoarded them in Bangalore…
You took me back to my childhood days, when mom made guava and banana chaat with different fruits.. I miss guava so badly here, though I have seen some in stores but nothing like we get in India. The chaat looks so tempting with pretty colors!!
I totally loved the banana chaat as well and usually make it with arbi as well. I liked guava with pomegranate, they were such a delight. I hardly get Indian ones too, but surely grab them when I see.
The creativity and innovative pictures are just out of this world!
Am glad you said that Sriram.