Prasadam - Vegetarian cooking

Prasadam means mercy. Krishnas mercy. When we offer food to Krishna, He sees our love and devotion and gives his mercy to the food, and then it becomes Prasadam. Karma free food. Even vegetables has life, so that is why Krishna takes the karmaic reactions from our offerings to Him. As long as we offer what He wants. Krishna says in Bhagavad Gita 9.26

Prasadam from Govindas

in Stockholm

Mahasweets from the

Hungarian farm

patraṁ puṣpaṁ phalaṁ toyaṁ

yo me bhaktyā prayacchati tad ahaṁ bhakty-upahṛtam aśnāmi prayatātmanaḥ

     If one offers Me with love and devotion 

a leaf, a flower, fruit or water, 

I will accept it.

 Some might say that a lot of our lives is surrounded around food, and yes, for a devotee Prasadam is very important, because when we are cooking we do it for Krishna. Before we eat we offer the food to Krishna, and when we eat we honor Prasadam - Krishnas mercy. It is all centered around Krishna.

Personally I love cooking, and I love eating. When guests come, they should always be fed. Even if its just someone who drops by to pick up something. There should always be some prasadam so that they may get some mercy.

We prepared Saag Paneer, brown rice, salad, 

pineapple drink, pineapple chutney,

Gauranga potatoes, 2 different pakoras 

Last weekend it was Kadamba Kanana Swami, 

our Guru Maharajas Vyasa poja, 

so for our Nama Hatta program 

my husband suggested we'd make a big feast. 

And so we did. 

Yudhisthira made his famous Marcipan cake

And then we made Simply wonderful

I made a raw strawberry cake

Raw Carob mint cake

....Oh this one was so delicious

I love raw food. I love how it taste, how it smells, how it's sooo crunchy. And even more I love the cakes. Raw cakes. No wheat, no sugar - just fruits and nuts. I love experimenting with recipes also. Since the recipes often contain cacao, I have to change that with carob.

Homemade Carobella

(Hazelnut/carob spread)

Raw orange and carob cake

- after a few hours in the freezer, it was an ice-cake. 

Probably a hit for the summer

There are so much to choose from, so much food to make. A thing we quite often have for dinner is pie. I think it's my husbands favorite. Lots of vegetables, and lots of cheese...

Pie

...and of course we have some salad on the side :-) 

Every week we have a Nama Hatta program at home, and then we make different dishes. I will keep you updated with delicious Prasadam pictures.

Recipies:

Muffins

100 g butter (I only had 40 g, so I added around 50 g of cold pressed coconut oil)

14 shakes of Stevia

2 Table spoons of Agave Nectar

(instead of stevia and agave nectar, you can use 3-4 Table spoons of brown sugar)

200 g Kefir

3-4 dl cashew nuts

175 g buckwheat flour

1 Natron (usually baking powder, but that is not ekadasi)

1/2 teaspoon cinamon

1/2 teaspoon ginger

1 teaspoon vanillapowder

1. mix the dry ingredients.

2. mixing dry and wet ingredients.

4. Bake in hot oven 175 degrees for 25 min. Keep the muffins 5 min in the open oven afterwards. Take out of forms when the muffins have cooled down.

You can also make this vegan. Just use coconut oil and water. You can add 200 g of fine grated carrots instead of cashews ☺

Offer to Krishna, and serve ♥

Ekadasi buckwheat licorice cookie

I was inspired by a recipe online, but somehow it did not work out because of ekadasi and since I wanted to make it sugar free.......so I added a few things and this was the result. Here is what I put in:

Recipe:

Licorice cookies

100 g almond flour (fine grinded almonds)

Stevia (hard to say in grams, but I shook the small container 14 times with the small holes open....)

2 table spoon Agave nectar

60 g butter (room temperature)

2 tea spoon licorice powder (3-4 grams)

1/4 tea spoon anis powder

1/2-1 tea spoon vanilla powder

1 tablespoon Natron (usually baking powder, but that is not ekadasi)

1dl kefir (sour milk) to work with the Natron

around 100 grams buckwheat flour (enough so that it is not too sticky!

I mixed the dry ingredients (minus buckwheat) and mixed in the butter with my fingers. Then I mixed in the Kefir and then the buckwheat flour.

Maybe you need less, maybe more.... It was quite sticky, but dry enough for me to roll it out in a roll, then I cut it into 1 cm thick pieces, rolled them into balls and pushed them flat on the baking paper.

Bake them for 10-15 min on 160 celsius. Leave to cool down, then they get hard.

Offer to Krishna, then serve ♥

Ekadasi Buckwheat pancakes

Buckwheat Mini Pancakes

Kefir, buckwheat flour, 

Natron, a little salt og pepper, 

2 spoons of melted butter and 

a handfull fresh parsley:-) 

The batter should be thick as when you make waffles :-)

Offer to Krishna, then serve ♥

Fruit tart with caramel almond filling: 

From: http://www.thisrawsomeveganlife.com/2013/03/jewel-fruit-tart-with-caramel-almond.html#.UWqz16VWz9V

Crust:

2 cups walnuts

2 cups raisins

Fruit tart

Filling (optional but recommended):

1/4 cup almond butter

1/4 cup melted coconut oil

1/4 cup maple syrup or 1/2 cup date paste

1/2 teaspoon cinnamon

Water, if needed

Topping: 

3 cups frozen berries (or however much you want)

1/2 cup goji berries

To make the crust: pulse the walnuts in your food processor until they become a rough flour. Add the raisins and process until it stick together, forming a rough dough. Press into a tart tin. Put in the fridge and let it set for about 2 hours (this is preferable but not absolutely necessary). 

To make the filling: blend all the ingredients until smooth. Spread gently into the bottom of your tart crust and then let it harden in the fridge for 30-60 minutes. Now top the tart off with all the berries.

Offer to Krishna and serve <3