Chhath Puja Top 5 recipes

For the chhath meal, poori is made to go with different sabzis like kaddu ki sabzi (bottle gourd sabzi) and hara chana. The poori is made with atta (wheat flour) and fried in pure ghee.

Thekua (or khajuria or thikari) is a must-have sweet in the Chhath Prasad. It is a tikki made of wheat flour, sugar or jaggery, coconut, and dry fruits, which is deep-fried in ghee. Thekua is mostly prepared on the second day of Chhath Puja to be offered to the Sun God.

This savoury sabzi is most popular in Chhath ka khana. It is made with kaddu or bottle gourd with rock salt or sendha namak and cooked in ghee. This delicious sabzi is paired with fried poori and makes for the perfect dish to break the fast with.

Hara chana (or green chana) is another dish you'll find in Chhath-special thali. Green chana is soaked in water overnight and prepared the next day in ghee along with cumin seeds and green chillies. 

Rasiyaw is basically rice kheer, except it has jaggery (or gur) in place of sugar. It is prepared almost like we make our regular kheer with rice, water and milk. This dessert completes the chhath puja meal and is offered to Surya Devta before serving it for consumption.