Besides woollens, winter is all about delicious hot delicacies. They are not only scrumptious but healthy too. The cold weather offers a gigantic assortment of nutrient loaded colourful vegetables and fruits. These veggies and fruits are the key ingredients of many yum recipes and are prodigious immune booster. That’s much needed to stay well in the cold weather.

Have a dose of these winter delicacies to help you stay warm and healthy with finger licking taste.

Gajar Ka Halwa: This lip smacking dessert is one of the most popular traditional Indian sweet dishes. It is made up of large amount of carrots and milk. This royal dish is very rich in vitamin A and calcium. You can store it in refrigerator to soak yourself in its sweetness for a week.

Badam Halwa: Almonds are rich source of energy and health benefiting nutrients like protein, calcium, vitamins, folic acid, minerals and dietary fibre. Badam halwa is indispensable to celebrate cold months. Once tasted, you can’t skip it. It can be stored for a week in fridge to have few bites every day.

Paneer Mal Pua: This delicious sweet Indian item can surprise you with its sweet syrupy palate and health. These soft fluffy pancakes with crisp edges are packed with goodness of protein rich paneer and antioxidants rich saffron threads.

Moong Dal Halwa: It is a perfect mouth-watering dessert best to be eaten in winters. Loaded with lots of protein and calcium, it is a good combo of taste, aroma and nutritional value.

Dates: Dates are packed with various vitamins and minerals. They are very healthy to eat in winters. Delicious and rich in fibre, they bring a fabulous amount of health benefits to your body.

Sarson ka Saag And Makai Ki Roti: ‘Sarson ka saag’ is a host to dietary fibre, vitamin K, calcium and potassium. Rich in antioxidants, this green vegetable is good for overall health. This winter specialty of North India is best enjoyed with ‘Makai ki roti’ and fresh white butter.

Methi Matar Malai: The combination of methi and matar along with cream makes a super hit curry vegetable. It is one of the most popular North Indian dishes of winter menu. With contrasting flavours of the two veggies, this yummy curry is amazingly healthy.

Mix Veg Pakodas: Crisp from outside and soft from inside onion, fenugreek and cauliflower pakodas are a favourite steamy dish in winters. This quick munch snack is full with nutritious benefits of cauliflower, fenugreek and onions.

Stuffed Cauliflower Paratha: Cauliflower contains powerful antioxidants and phytonutrients. It boosts the immune system to fight winter ills. With the fibrous nature of whole wheat and nutritional value of cauliflower these hot crispy parathas can be a tasty and healthy treat with white butter on a cold day.

Vegetable Pulao: Veg pulao is a healthy dish having lots of vitamins, minerals and other nutrients. With assorted colourful winter vegetables it can be the eye candy with all goodness of fibre and nutrients. Add paneer and soya chunks to make it a protein rich meal.

Food, taste and health go hand in hand. The obsession with winter food is quite obvious with such a menu at hand. All these dishes make a satiating meal treating our taste buds.

Important: Portion control is very necessary since most of the dishes are loaded with high calories.