Updated:16-09-2025; Author: Purva Iyengar
Celebrating the Goddess with Nine Heavenly Sweets for Navratri
Navratri brings an air of devotion, music, colours, and unmatched festive energy. It fills hearts with joy and togetherness, as the community comes together for the divine festival.
Without sweets, Indian festivals are incomplete. And Navratri is associated with its own set of traditional sweets. We are listing nine mouth-watering sweets associated with the festival.
Navratri sweets for 9 days
1. Sabudana Kheer:
A Creamy, delicious dessert is easy to digest.
Made with soaked tapioca pearls, sugar, milk flavoured with cardamom and dry fruit.
2. Coconut Laddoo:
A quick and tasty sweet made with fresh grated coconut, jiggery, and condensed milk flavoured with cardamom.
Soft and melt-in-the-mouth Prasad is a perfect festive treat.
3. Makhana Kheer:
Rich, creamy dessert made with roasted fox nuts, sugar, and milk.
It’s known for its lightness and nutritional value and is eaten during fasting.
4. Singhare Ka Halwa:
This is a super delicious, fast, friendly, sweet made with water chestnut flour, ghee, and sugar flavoured with cardamom. Often enjoyed warm, it is good for boosting energy.
5. Rajgira Sheera:
This is a wholesome, filling, nutrition-rich, festive flavour sweet made with Rajgeera flour (amaranth), ghee and sugar. Cooked in slow flame for light & rich texture.
6. Kheer:
Kheer is an age-old sweet/dessert/pudding popular in India made by simmering rice in milk flavoured with cardamom and saffron, and garnished with nuts and raisins.
7. Suji Halwa:
A traditional sweet served during Kanya bhojan on Ashtami is often an essential with poori and chana. This sweet is made with semolina sugar and milk.
8. Malai Peda:
These are soft, cardamom and saffron flavoured, creamy, festival favourite; literally melt-in-mouth sweet balls fill the Navratri energy with a feeling of indulgence.
9. Dry Fruit Ladoo:
Dry fruit laddoos are nutritional, wholesome, delicious Indian sweets made during Navaratri and served to the Goddess as prasadam.
Made with dry fruits & nuts, bound with ghee and dates, they offer taste and delight.
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