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    Home » diwali

    Vegan Diwali Sweets E-book now available! Gluten-free and Soy-free options

    Published: Oct 24, 2013 · Modified: Aug 7, 2014 by Richa 26 Comments

    The wait is now over! Vegan Indian Diwali Sweets is now available to buy here. 
    This Diwali, whip up these goodies and surprise everyone! Celebrate any festival for that matter, Celebrate today!. Celebrate your loved ones and celebrate finding this e-book 🙂

    What do you get in the ebook is 15 recipes! and gorgeous pictures. You can print out any page you like, frame it and put it up on the kitchen wall. A great reminder to make the goodies again and again 🙂

    Diwali, the festival of lights is one of the big festivals celebrated in India. The festival is celebrated with vacations, visits, bursting crackers and lots of sweets and savories. The Sweets and Desserts served for the festival are quite heavily dependent on dairy. Like any major festival or holiday in any country, we all get obsessed with vegan-izing some family favorites. With very few Vegan Indian commercial options in India and almost none in the United states, I try to vegan-ize some of my favorites around the Indian festivals that people can make at home. This year I have a decent collection that I could make into an E-book. 


    The names of the sweets and flavors might be new to some, but they are delicious and addictive. I have tried to keep the sweets close to traditional wherever possible, that means a few do have similar oil content as you would find in a ghee laden sweet. A good number of the recipes though are low fat with no or little refined oil and some also use natural sugars like maple syrup. Gluten-free options are mentioned wherever possible. 


    Here is the Table of contents

    It is difficult to explain each of these exactly. Loose translation to get an idea about each of the sweets. 

    Mysore pak – Chickpea flour fudge, and when i say fudge, it is indeed super fudgy fudge. 

    Nan Khatai – Semolina Cardamom Shortbread


    Sooji halwa – Semolina crumble with nuts and cranberries
    Amaranth Burfi – Amaranth Coconut fudge bars
    Kaju Katli – Cashew fudge 
    Gulab Jamun – Doughnut type balls in flavored syrup
    Gluten-free Gulab Jamun – Gluten-free version
    Sandesh – Melt in your mouth cheesy balls
    Kesar Sandesh – Cheesy balls flavored with saffron
    Rasgulla – Cheese balls/dumplings/chewy matzo balls 🙂 in rose flavored syrup
    Rasmalai – Cheese discs/dumplings in saffron cream
    Wheat Laddoo – Wheat balls/truffles
    Kesar Mawa Burfi – Saffron flavored Fudge 
    Besan Laddoo – Chickpea flour truffles
    Coconut Burfi – Coconut fudge bars


    Its a 4 way win. You win the recipes, ebook and the photographs, I win because I can use some of my hard work to raise funds. All of the money raised from the sale of the E-book will be donated to the animals suffering because of Cyclone Phailin (to VSPCA through Help Animals India which his a 501 c3 chairty) and to Pigs Peace Sanctuary. The animals win as we all make plant-based sweets this Diwali and also because they get the funds from the sale of this book.



    A lot of hard work has gone into the recipes, photography as well as making of the E-book. So please do not share the recipes or photographs publicly without permission.

    You can buy the e-book on this Page.


    I ask for $5 for the E-book. You can pay any amount greater than that. 100% of your donation will be collectively donated to the charities mentioned. I will not keep any.

    Save a baby, Skip the dairy!
    Have a wonderful and prosperous Deepawali.

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    1. Cathy Katin-Grazzini

      May 25, 2015 at 5:03 am

      Richa! So happy to have found you and your wonderful recipes! Would love to buy your e-book on desserts – our dietary restriction is very very low fat (no added oils). Are any of your dessert recipes along those lines (or adaptable)? Many thanks, Cathy

      Reply
      • Richa

        May 25, 2015 at 8:14 am

        Hi Cathy,
        This Diwali desserts ebook has been incorporated into my new print book which is also available in kindle format. it is is currently discounted at 5.99. The book has 150 recipes! https://www.amazon.com/Vegan-Richas-Indian-Kitchen-Traditional/dp/1941252095/
        Most of the book recipes (breakfast, snacks, mains, dals, flatbreads) and some desserts are low oil, some no oil. Some desserts are kept close to authentic and hence have enough oil. there are almost no options to buy Vegan indian desserts or recipes anywhere, and those desserts all have special connections with festivals and events and the goal with those was for people to try plant based versions of generally dairy-intense and super high fat versions and discover that is is possible to make them without the dairy and still taste great.

        Reply
    2. Saraswati

      October 26, 2014 at 8:55 pm

      Is there any way you could email me just the rasgulla recipe? sararichardson@gmail.com

      Reply
    3. Anonymous

      December 09, 2013 at 7:41 am

      Hello,
      I ordered this e-book on October 30 through Paypal in Japan, but I forgot to leave an email address for you to forward it too. Sorry, I thought Paypal would take care of. What should I do now?
      BJ

      Reply
      • Richa

        December 09, 2013 at 7:52 am

        Hi Brenda, I sent the ebook to the hotmail email address you have on paypal. Please check that email. The mail might be in the Spam or junk folder if not in the main inbox. If you cannot find it, please send me an alternate email id where I can send the ebook. My email id is mentioned on this page
        Thanks
        Richa

        Reply
    4. Bex @ Vegan Sparkles

      October 31, 2013 at 12:31 pm

      Oh I love it! Congratulations, Richa! We’re heading to a Diwali event here in Western Australia on Saturday night and I was just saying to my friend that I wish more of the desserts were vegan. You ROCK, girl! Keep spreading your light and love. Huge hugs from here, Bex xx

      Reply
    5. Anne

      October 30, 2013 at 1:37 am

      I just tried to buy the book. It took my paypal payment, I got a receipt, but no book! It didn’t redirect to a page to download the book and I didn’t receive an email. Can you please help? anne99@rcn.com

      Reply
      • Richa

        October 30, 2013 at 1:42 am

        Hi Anne, I just emailed it you at your paypal email id ambivans@rcn

        Reply
      • Anne

        October 30, 2013 at 1:48 am

        Just got it!!!! That’s perfect! Thank you! 🙂

        Reply
    6. Veganosaurus

      October 29, 2013 at 9:58 am

      Congratulations on your first ebook Richa! I’m looking forward to seeing many more from you. Happy Diwali!!! 🙂

      Reply
    7. Nithiya

      October 26, 2013 at 4:50 pm

      Congrats on your e-book!! You should probably publish a cookbook soon. I tried your gulab jamun sometime ago and it tasted really good. I am going to use your recipe and slightly modify it to make kala jamuns. I am really tempted to buy your e-book but I am going to wait for a little longer as I am trying my version of rasmalai. Let’s see how it turns out.

      Reply
    8. Nithiya

      October 26, 2013 at 4:49 pm

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      Reply
    9. Anonymous

      October 25, 2013 at 1:38 pm

      is it possible to pay by PayPal

      Reply
      • Richa

        October 25, 2013 at 7:33 pm

        you can pay either by paypal or just checkout with a credit card without loggin in. The checkout is on the ebooks page https://www.veganricha.com/p/e-books.html

        Reply
    10. Richgail @ AstigVegan

      October 25, 2013 at 12:33 am

      Congrats! The e-book is such a great treat for your readers. Personally I couldn’t wait to try the gulab jamun.

      Reply
      • Richa

        October 26, 2013 at 12:59 am

        now you can!:)

        Reply
    11. coconutandberries

      October 24, 2013 at 8:51 pm

      Wow Richa this looks seriously impressive! Congratulations! I’m not at all familiar with Indian desserts.

      Reply
      • Richa

        October 26, 2013 at 12:59 am

        Thank you Emma, that is why you need this EBook:)

        Reply
    12. Nupur UK-Rasoi

      October 24, 2013 at 8:45 pm

      Nice Richa ! I have always been a fan of your page and this is truly must for me to have this book. Good attempt ! Will def buy it

      Reply
      • Richa

        October 26, 2013 at 12:59 am

        Thank you Nupur! you will definitely like it !

        Reply
    13. Annie

      October 24, 2013 at 7:25 pm

      Woohoo! Great job, Richa!

      Reply
      • Richa

        October 26, 2013 at 12:58 am

        Thank you Annie

        Reply
    14. rika@vm

      October 24, 2013 at 4:54 pm

      Happy Deepawali 🙂 I can’t wait to see you soon! What an awesome eBook Richa! The vegan Indian Diwali sweets look so yummy, I would love to try any of them as long as it has coconut, caramel, or cheesy based. I’m not a huge fan of all fudge or chocolate desserts, but the cheese dumplings sound enticing to try!

      Reply
      • Richa

        October 26, 2013 at 12:58 am

        :d yes ther eis no chocolate in indian sweets:)

        Reply
    15. Caitlin

      October 24, 2013 at 3:30 pm

      congrats, lady! i’m sure everything is outstanding!

      Reply
      • Richa

        October 26, 2013 at 12:58 am

        Thank you Caitlin!

        Reply

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