Ruchi Verma When festivals are here, it is quite impossible to imagine celebration without sweets. It’s like a tradition of every Indian home to enjoy scrumptious food and sweets.
But if you (or any family member) are diabetic, you would usually avoid bringing sweets. For this festival season, here are some healthy and delicious dessert recipes for diabetic people which you can relish!
Check out 3 diabetes-friendly desserts India will love to try this festive season:
1. Apple Rabri
Ingredients:
1 litre Skim milk,
4 apples,
1/2 teaspoon cardamom.
Green cardamom powder: 1/2 tsp
Ensure® Diabetes Care: 3 scoops
Method:
Boil 1 litre milk and keep stirring until it is reduced to half. Wash and chop the apples and add them in rabri. Once the rabri turns thick, turn off the flame add cardamom powder and Ensure® Diabetes Care mix properly. Garnish with almonds (optional) and serve.
2. Ragi Oats Laddoo
Ingredients:
Ragi flour – 1½ cup
Oats flour – 1 cup
Milk – ½ cup
Ghee – 1 Tbsp
Cardamom powder – 1tsp
White sesame seeds – ¼ cup
Coconut powder – ¼ cup
Ensure® Diabetes Care: 4 scoops
Method
Separately lightly roast oats and ragi and when they cool down, grind separately. Roast white sesame seeds and cashew nuts. In a pan, put some ghee and roast the oats flour. Keep it separately and roast the ragi flour with ghee in a similar way. Mix both flour and add remaining ghee. Add cardamom powder, Ensure® Diabetes Care and mix well. Allow the mixture to cool down. Apply ghee over your palm and make small balls in the shape of laddoos. Roll over sesame seeds and coconut powder and your healthy laddoos are ready.
3. Lauki Gajar Halwa
Ingredients
Lauki- 1/2 medium
Carrots- 2 large
Skim Milk – 1/4 cup
Saffron – a few strands
Cardamom – 1 (powdered fine)
Almonds / raisins / Cashew for garnish (Optional)
Ghee – 2 tbsp
Ensure® Diabetes Care: 5 scoops
Method
Wash, peel and grate the carrots and lauki. Put the milk and a pinch of saffron in a pressure cooker for 4 whistles. In a pan, heat some ghee, sauté the nuts, add cooked veggies and cook on low flame for 5-6 mins. Switch off the flame add Ensure® Diabetes Care and cardamom powder, mix well. Garnish with nuts and serve.
If you notice, in all of my recipes, there is a secret ingredient – Ensure Diabetes Care. It is a diabetic specific supplement which helps in controlling blood sugar levels. By adding it, you can be rest assured that the diabetic patient under your care is getting nutrition as well.
This festive season let’s all enjoy the sweetness of togetherness with some mouth-watering diabetes-friendly desserts.
Copyright: © Ruchi Verma
Disclaimer – This article is an advisory piece. Before you manipulate your diet habit kindly consult a medical practitioner or nutritionist.
Definitely trying these recipes for my father who is a diabetic. Thanks for sharing. Just in time ??
A wonderful post. The recipes seem easy and the dishes look delicious.
Wonderful to see that a diabetic can also enjoy the desserts now. Great recipes.
These recipes seem fabulous. Will try them out. Thanks for this informative post.
That’s very helpful Recipe for a diabetic. My father is diabetic too. These sweet dish will definitely satisfy his cravings for sweets and without worrying about blood sugar levels. I’ve ensure diabetes care. Will use it to make.
I loved the way you jave added the sweetness in these dishes through Ensure Diabetes Care. These dishes are really Innovative and must try.
I have seen a couple of close family friends who have diabetes and they refrain from enjoying sweets. But with recipes, now they can also satisfy their sweet cravings. Reading about Apple Rabdi, it reminds me of Sanjeev Kapoor’s book.:) I often make Lauki Halwa , will add carrots to it from now on. I am sure the color will be very vibrant.
Oh my hubby wanted to try out the lauki halwa. Not sure if he has planned to put carrots in it. I’ll ask n show him this recipe for inspiration.
This is a revelation. I have used Ensure but I didnt know Ensure could be added to desserts or to any dish.I thought it was just a supplement to be taken with milk or water. My sasuma would make the lauki carrot halwa without any sweetener and have it as she was highly diabetic
This is interesting. I didn’t know that ensure diabetic care can be used in recipes. I loved all the ideas suggested by you. Apple rabri sounds most interesting to me. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for sharing these mouthwatering recipes…. Will definitely try them all for my FIL who is diabetic. Good to see that diabetic people can also have variety in sweets.
Wonderful recipes shared. While we are not diabetic, I dont like very sweet sweets…. I prefer mild sweetness and these recipes are just amazing… I am gonna trying making one of them.
This is very helpful. Elders in our family are refusing to take it easy on the sweets. I’m going to try these 🙂
That’s very helpful Recipe for diabetics. My father is diabetic will try the ragi oats laddoo super soon
That’s very helpful Recipe for a diabetic. My mother is diabetic too. I’ve ensure diabetes care. Will use it to make this . Rabri sounds amazing
Really Wonderful to learn on the sweet recipes for diabetic people, also they enjoy the desserts now. Great recipes.
These are very good recipes for all the people to stay healthy and have a bowl of sweets. I myself like the sweets and shall share the same with my mom, who have restricted sweets because of Diabetes. I am sure she will like lauki gajar ka halwa.
I love gajar and lauki halwa. I made Oats and dry fruits laddoo for diwali and ragi is a great addition to that. Will try apple rabri soon. Delicious recipes!
The desserts look yummy and healthy. thank you for sharing diabetes friendly recipes.
All the recipes sound so good.. I would try them!