Evening Snacks are a must-have to satisfy our cravings after a long day. Evening Snacks can be easily prepared at home with simple ingredients. Here are 5 quick Evening Snacks recipes that you can try: crispy onion fritters, cheesy vegetable toast, spicy roasted chickpeas, yogurt vegetable dip with crackers, and chocolate banana toast. These Evening Snacks are perfect for a relaxing evening with family and friends. Evening Snacks like these are also great for kids, as they are healthy and delicious. With these recipes, you can enjoy delicious Evening Snacks every day.
1. Healthy Quick Snack
Even if you haven’t eaten for a while, it doesn’t matter!! If you say healthy, this is a quick snack in minutes.
A great dish that gives energy to both children and adults in our house. A wonderful dish with many nutritional benefits. Once you make it, you will definitely make it again and again. Also, the benefits of the legumes used in this are innumerable.
Ingredients
- Almonds – ½ cup
- Walnuts – ½ cup
- Sunflower seeds – ½ cup
- Pumpkin seeds
- White sesame seeds – ½ cup
- Dried grapes
- Black grapes
- Butter
- Dates
- Honey -1 cup
Preparation method
Put a cup of almonds and a cup of walnuts in a pan. Fry both of them well. Now, after it is well heated, put it in a mixie and grind it just a little. It should never be too powdered. Grind it into a powder. Now add ½ cup of sunflower seeds in a pan. Add pumpkin seeds and ½ cup of white sesame seeds and heat it well. Now when it is half hot, add 3/4 cup of oats and heat it well. Now when it is half hot, add it to the previously prepared almond mix. Now take a pan and add 2 pieces of butter to it.
Add 1/4 cup of dried grapes to this and roast it well. Now add 3 cups of jaggery to this butter. Now add the roasted grapes, 1 cup of black grapes, dates, sarakara pani, and 1 cup of honey to the previously prepared seeds and mix well. Now put this mix on a butter paper and press it well. Then put it in the fridge and set it. Now you can cut it as needed and eat it. You too can try something like this. I hope this recipe will be useful for you. If it is useful, please share it to reach others.
2. Cottage Cheese Sweet
A crumbly milk sweet made quickly in five minutes. Moist and tasty. The recipe makes a dozen square slices…
Ingredients
- Paneer (actually cottage cheese) – ¾ cup
made from
- Milk – 1 litre
- Vinegar – 2 tbsp
For the Burfi
- Milkmaid – ¾ cup/ 6 oz
- Milk powder – 1 tsp
- Cardamom powder – ½ tsp
Method
- Bring milk to a boil in a pan. Add vinegar. Stir as it curdles into cottage cheese and a liquid, “ whey”. Place in a colander. Let the water drain.
- In the mixer, process the paneer to a smooth paste. Add also the Milkmaid and run the mixer till a smooth paste is formed.
- Place in the non-stick pan.
- Cook, stirring until the mixture begins to bubble and leave the sides. Add milk powder and cardamom powder.
- Stir until the mixture curls up into a ball around the ladle. Place on a greased plate. After 5-10 minutes, once slightly firm, smoothen the top.
- Place a plastic sheet over the sweet and flatten, without using pressure using a chopping board.
- Using a pizza cutter, slice into squares or likewise desired shapes…
- Serve immediately, keep refrigerated.
Tip - Cottage Cheese Sweet: Use homemade Paneer for this recipe.
3. Peda
For your sweet tooth.
Ingredients
- Sweetened condensed milk – 1 tin
- Milk – 1½ cups
- Citric acid – ¼ tsp, dissolved in 1 tbsp water
- Cornflour – 1 tbsp, mixed in 2 tbsp water
- Salt – ¼ tsp
- Ghee- 1 tbsp
- Food colour – A drop (optional)
- Nut slivers – For garnish
Method
- In a shallow non-stick pan, warm ghee. Place sweetened condensed milk, milk, citric acid liquid (& food colour) and stir with a wooden ladle. The mixture will begin to curdle.
- Add the cornflour solution. A pinch of salt too.
- Stir over a low-medium flame until the mix thickens and eases and curls off the sides and flat bottom surface of the wok. Leave to cool. Add a pinch of cardamom powder, if you like…
- Once it is semi-cool, shape into balls.
- Flatten in the middle and place a nut sliver.
- Garnish as desired.
- Arrange on a serving platter.
- Serve fresh….
Tip - Peda is ideal for festivities, a typical North Indian sweetmeat
4. Kalakand
A traditional sweet, the Kalakand, that you can make in 10 minutes… Really delicious… Makes a dozen pieces.
Ingredients
- Milk powder – 1 cup
- Sweetened condensed milk – 200 ml (½ a can)
- Ghee – 1 tbsp
Method
- In a bowl, combine the milk powder, condensed milk and ghee. Mix well.
- In a greased 6” pan, pour the mixture. Lightly tap the pan to even the surface.
- Place the pressure-cooker on the hob. Place a stand/ trivet inside. Fill with enough water to reach the level of the trivet. Keep the pan on the trivet. Cover with a lid. Close the cooker.
- Cook over medium-high flame for upto 3 whistles. Upon the 3rd whistle, switch off the gas. After 30 minutes, open.
- Using a handle, take out the pan. Let the mixture cool completely. Run a knife along the edges. Invert onto a plate.
- Slice into desired shapes.
- Makes 12 squares.
- Keep refrigerated. (Lower rack.)
Tip - Kalakand is best served immediately.
5. Chocolate Popcorn
A Valentine’s treat.
Ingredients
- Freshly popped popcorn – 2 cups
- Milk chocolate – 40 gms
- White chocolate – 20 gms
Method
- Melt the both types of chocolate in a double boiler, separately.
- In a greased baking tray, take some freshly popped, plain (unsalted, cooled) popcorn.
- Drizzle melted milk chocolate in a zig-zag fashion, using a fork.
- Criss-cross with a fork, melted white chocolate for a colourful effect.
- Let it cool and harden.
- Serve fresh!
Tip - Chocolate popcorn: Use as many types of chocolate: dark, milk, white, as you like.