5 foods that you crave for on a rainy day

For most of us rainy season is the best season of all, if and only if we have no work on our agenda for the day. Staying at home on a rainy day is like a lifetime’s wish coming true and why not! Rains are meant to be declared as holidays – officially. Every season is associated with different types of cravings. Here is the list of food that you crave for during rains.

Pakode aka bhajiye

Bhajiye served hot in the room makes the rain on the outside awesome. It is wonderful how most people relate to rainy season as the season for pakode.

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Methi (Spinach) Pakoda Or Pakora Or Methi Fritters Recipe

Recipe by Charus Cuisine

Methi pakoda is a healthy Indian snack made from fresh spinach leaves, gram flour, onions, asafetida and mild spices. 

They are not only nutritious and crispy but also rich in iron due to goodness of spinach leaves.

Methi pakoda is a quick and easy to make pakoda recipe and can be had as an evening snack with a cup of tea.

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Gulab Jamun

Syrupy, sweet and steaming hot. Gulab Jamuns that melts in the mouth is like the most wonderful sweet tooth treat we could offer ourselves. Indulge in the savoury and make the most of your rainy day. Relax, find a horror movie and a few gulab jamuns to transform your day in a memorable one.

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Pineapple Jamun (Gulab Jamun With A Fruity Twist)

Recipe by Amrita Iyer

Everyone makes the quintessential Gulab Jamun during Diwali! This recipe is given a fruity twist when I combine the Pineapple fruit with these delicious fried balls of dough, dunk them again in Pineapple flavoured syrup and serve them for a great experience!

For a change I did not sprinkle the top with nuts as they would interfere with the taste of the Pineapple! You can use either fresh or Preserved Pineapple in the recipe. If you use fresh fruit then ensure that the Jamuns are kept refrigerated and consumed within 3 – 4 days.

However there is no problem with Preserved Pineapple and the sweets can be kept for a week or even a fortnight if kept refrigerated!

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Samosas/Singhara

Anybody who has ever tasted samosas would swear that to make a gloomy raining day exciting, a couple of samosas are enough. I believe the same. It seems that the Gods of the rains and the inventor of samosa had a pact of understanding. Such is the craving for noodles on a rainy day.

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Samosa Recipe – Step By Step Photos

Recipe by Plattershare Food

Punjabi Samosa is world famous Indian street food. It is filled with spicy potato stuffing and served with hot coriander chutney.

Even though the vegetable samosa is deep-fried, its crispiness makes it a perfect evening snack which is loved across India.

Mastering the samosa recipe will definitely need experience and expertise – says home chef Geeta Biswas, who has shared this samosa recipe with complete step by step instructions and pictures to help you out to make hygienic, healthy and delicious Indian Samosa.

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Momos/Dumpling

A bowl full of momos/dumplings along with some spicy schezwan sauce defines a perfect rainy. As the Kung fu panda would say, I love it, you love it, we all love some dumplings after all.

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Wheat Momos

Recipe by Mehek Desai

Wheat Veg Momos- A healthier version of the famous street food in the past decade in India.

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Ginger Tea

A cup of warm tea with a little extra ginger makes it more wonderful to see the rain downpour and wash every single leaf of the tree outside your house. Dust and dirt from the roads are washed away by rain whereas your boredom and laziness are done away by a “kadak chai ki pyali” (a cup of strong tea).

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Jaggery Tea / Gud Wali Chai

Recipe by Shakuntla Tulshyan

Great recipe for jaggery tea is idel for the winter season,as jaggey helps in generating heat in the body. It is loaded with iron, calcium and antioxident though main ingredients for this tea are milk, jaggery and tea leaves. It has natural cleansing tea

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