Does Tarla Dalal Offer Recipes for Festivals and Fasting?

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Yes. Tarla Dalal's site includes dedicated festival and fasting (vrat/upvaas) recipe collections, not just everyday vegetarian dishes. The homepage features a "Best Navratri Recipes for Fasting" section with 8 recipes, and individual fasting-friendly recipes appear throughout the "Recently Updated" and "Healthy Category" listings. If you're cooking for Navratri, Ekadashi, or another vrat day, the site is a usable starting point.

What festival and fasting content is actually on the site

The evidence from the homepage shows two distinct layers:

A curated festival collection

  • "Best Navratri Recipes for Fasting" — 8 recipes, presented as a seasonal grouping tied to fresh, in-season ingredients.

Individual fasting recipes (vrat/faraal/upvaas) These appear as standalone recipes, often labeled with fasting terms in the title:

Recipe Fasting signal in name
Sabudana Khichdi Classic vrat staple
Rajgira ki Kadhi Rajgira (amaranth) is a fasting grain
Farali Dosa "Farali" = for fasting
Upvaas Thalipeeth "Upvaas" = fasting
Kand Aloo Pakoda Kand (yam) is a fasting ingredient
Farali Handvo Recipe "Farali" = for fasting
Rajgira Paneer Paratha (Faraal Recipe) "Faraal" = fasting
Kuttu Ka Paratha (Vrat-Friendly Buckwheat Roti) "Vrat-friendly" stated explicitly
Sabudana Kheer Fasting dessert

So the fasting coverage is not limited to one landing page — it's spread across recipe titles that use the vocabulary of vrat cooking (sabudana, rajgira, kuttu, farali, upvaas, kand).

How to find these recipes

  1. Start with the festival collection. Look for the "Best Navratri Recipes for Fasting" block on the homepage — it groups 8 recipes in one place, which is faster than searching recipe by recipe.
  2. Search by fasting ingredient or term. If you want something specific, search terms like sabudana, rajgira, kuttu, farali, or upvaas will surface the relevant recipes, since these words appear in the recipe titles themselves.
  3. Check the "Healthy Category" listings. Fasting recipes also appear here (for example, under healthy snack or low-calorie collections), though this is a broader category and not fasting-specific.
  4. Verify the recipe fits your fast. Fasting rules vary by community and festival — some avoid grains, some avoid onions and garlic, some allow specific flours. Read the ingredient list rather than relying on the title alone.

What to expect and where it falls short

What works well

  • The fasting recipes use recognizable vrat ingredients (sabudana, rajgira, kuttu, kand), so you can trust the titles to point you toward genuinely fasting-appropriate dishes.
  • Recipes carry calorie counts (e.g., Sabudana Khichdi at 655 calories, Sabudana Kheer at 316 calories), which helps if you're tracking intake during a fast.
  • The Navratri collection is seasonal and refreshed, so it stays relevant to the festival calendar.

Limits to keep in mind

  • The site is a general Indian vegetarian recipe destination — festival and fasting content is one part of it, not the whole focus. You won't find a single comprehensive "all festivals" index based on the evidence shown.
  • Fasting rules are community-specific. The site doesn't (based on the available evidence) filter recipes by region or by which ingredients a particular fast permits, so you'll need to apply your own rules.
  • The homepage excerpt shows the Navratri collection explicitly; other festivals (Ekadashi, Shivratri, etc.) are represented through individual vrat-labeled recipes rather than named collections.

Bottom line

If you need festival or fasting recipes, Tarla Dalal is a reasonable source: it has a Navratri fasting collection plus a steady stream of vrat/farali/upvaas recipes identifiable by their titles and ingredients. Use the Navratri collection for a quick grouped list, or search by fasting ingredient names for something specific — then check the ingredient list against your own fasting rules before cooking.