Holi Festival is the festival of colors, songs and dances, which is complemented with loads of holi foods. Enjoying holi foods, if you are on a diet plan, either eat everything and plan a workout accordingly the following days, if not you will be more than happy to plan the holi food menu with a number of foods that can add to your weight loss food menu.

The toughest part of the Holi food menu is to keep yourself away from the tempting sweets, but serving sweets that will not spoil your weight loss plans are much more then inviting and will encourage your guests to take part in all aspects of your Holi party.

Some of the best holi foods that could be eaten away during the pomp and merry will include:

Almond Shake

This drink is better than the many of the other intoxicating drinks that you drink, which also adds to your waistline. This drink does more than to your weight loss plan, makes your skin look beautiful from the inside.

Puran Poli

Though, traditionally prepared using loads of ghee on the top, the original recipe calls for the ever so healthy jaggery. Jaggery is supposed to increase metabolism and aid weight loss. This is a perfect holi sweet from the state of Maharashtra; however, do go easy with the ghee topping if you are serious about losing weight. 

Kadabu

This is a popular sweet from Karnataka, which is made using whole wheat flour and bengal gram and jaggery filling. Though, the deeo fried variety is more popular due to the obvious reasons, try biting into the steamed kadabus. These Indian version of Momos, will leave you asking for more and fiber rich ingredients like whole wheat flour, and bengal gram will keep a check on your waistline.

Ginger barfi

This delicious sweet is loaded with medicinal value and also aids in easy digestion following the heavy food that you take on the day of Holi. 

Dahi Vade

This is a savory snack prepared by deep frying black gram dal balls. Eventhough, the balls are deep fried, the steps that follow ensure that most of the oil soaked in during the frying is removed from the vadas. Warm lentil balls are soaked in water and all oil squeezed out. This not only removes the excess oil from the vada, but also allows them to soak in the yogurt dip better. the balls are topped with a spicy or sweet yogurt dip (rich in probotics) just before serving - a true healthy treat! 

Now that you know some of the wonderful weight loss Holi sweets, make this Holi a pleasure some event for everyone in the family.

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