Indian Cow Ghee this Festive Season
Festival season, and every home is abuzz with festivity. As the day of celebrating approaches, the entire household is filled with the delicious aroma of sweets and savories that are made for the occasion. While kids are the ones to be most excited about this, the senior citizens in the family, enjoying their second childhood are mostly deprived of the fun of sweets. Reason? They’re diabetic, and all that sweet and sweeteners take a toll on their health. But, is it fair to deprive them of the fun because it is not healthy? Can we instead make the sweets healthier?
The answer is yes; sweets can be made healthier, by preparing them at home with ingredients that don’t harm the health of our beloved parents. Here are a few advantages of preparing sweets at home this festival season.
Less Wastage : When we prepare sweets at home, the quantity is limited for our consumption and a little for distribution among friends, relatives, and well-wishers. This means that you don’t know horde on boxes of sweets that go to waste. And you might not have to force feed yourself to avoid wastage.
Natural Sweeteners : When you make sweets at home, you could use natural sweeteners that do not harm a person’s health. For instance, A2 milk has a naturally sweet taste that adds flavor to all the dishes you make of it. This way you’re reducing the need to add artificial sweeteners and sugar in the festival sweets. What’s more? A2 sweets are known to be beneficial for people with diabetes. So, that’s a win-win.
Traditionally cow ghee is freshly prepared and used in making sweets. This ensures that the sweets stay fresh for longer and have an added aroma of the newly processed ghee. High in Vitamin A, D, and E, cow Ghee is said to be a great source of calcium, which gives you strong bones and the much-needed energy for the festive season. Sweets bought from stores, on the other hand, might use Vanaspati, which hydrogenated vegetable oil and has bad fat that could harm the body.
Brings family together : Remember the time when our grandparents, mom, and aunts sat down in the kitchen, diving chores, and preparing those wonderful delicacies for festivals and special occasions? The joy that reverberated from these conversations, playful kids trying to sneak a few sweets while they’re still being made, etc., brought the family closer and helped us make memories for a lifetime. This is lost in those packs of Soan Papdi that we are circulating from one house to the other every festive season.
Fresh ingredients : When we cook at home, we have control over the ingredients, and when we cook at home, we can make the same sweets with fewer and healthier ingredients that are fresh. You never know the ingredients that go into the preparation of the sweets bought at a Halwai or a Mithai Wala. You can always ensure that you use nothing but farm fresh A2 cow milk and ghee in your preparations, which we might not happen in the sweets bought from a sweet shop. They’re bound to compromise on the quality and freshness of ingredients in their rush to make money.
Nutritious : Sweet shops, supermarkets, and are known for making sweets that are high in calories, unhealthy fats, and carbohydrates, which you can control at home by opting for low-cal substitutes.
Easy on pocket : Eating homemade food is easy on the pocket as compared to eating out. The same is the case with sweets as it can be freshly made to match the quantity requirement and spend on just the ingredients, unlike the sweets bought at the shop which includes even the cost of running the business.
Avoid food allergies and sensitivities : When you prepare sweets at home, you could also make sure it doesn’t have any allergens, along with making sure it is nutritious. For instance, if you are making a milk based sweet, you could use A2 milk that even the lactose intolerant people can digest with ease, unlike A1 milk that causes inflammation.
Easy on pocket : Eating homemade food is easy on the pocket as compared to eating out. The same is the case with sweets as it can be freshly made to match the quantity requirement and spend on just the ingredients, unlike the sweets bought at the shop which includes even the cost of running the business.
Portion Control : Sweets at home can be made to match your taste. None better than your family knows how exactly you like that bowl of custard, or what’s the quantity of fresh Kova do you like added to your desserts. Why pay a big price and compromise on the taste when you could get fresh farm ingredients delivered at your doorstep and bring out the chef in you. Also, you could make it in the exact quantity that you need. There’s no need for you to make a dozen gulab jamun if there’s just the two of you.
Clean and Hygienic : When we prepare sweets at home, we can make sure we use locally grown and delivered products like Khoa, milk, ghee, etc., to make them. Also, the hygiene factor that we take into account will be missing in places where they cook for commercial reasons.
That’s a few reasons we could think of when we speak of the benefits of homemade sweets and savories. Tell us what you think about making homemade desserts for this festive season in the comments section below.
