Low Calorie Indian Sweets and Desserts Recipes

low calorie Indian sweets and desserts recipes. Trying to lose weight but cannot because you have a sweet tooth? No worries! Here we bring you a section which has healthy low calorie sweets and desserts recipes that can be consumed during your weight loss regimen. But make sure that you consume them occasionally. The desserts in this section are prepared using low-fat milk products, less sugar or no sugar at all. Fruits and dry fruits like dates or natural sugar like honey are used for sweetening.

Low Calorie Sweets and Desserts Recipes, Non-Dairy Recipes

If you are avoiding dairy products in your diet then here are few brilliant options for you. Apple Crumble is one of its kind recipe which has a distinct flavour of stewed apples and cinnamon, cinnamon is also great for weight loss and should be included in your regular diet.

Apple Crumble

This unique recipe of Ragi Sheera will make you fall in love with nachni. Nutritious ragi flour together with a single tablespoon of ghee makes five servings of this delicious cardamom flavoured dessert.

Ragi Sheera

Date and Nut Coconut Cocoa Balls are great alternatives when you’re craving for fat laden ladoos and this one is loaded with omega-3 fats with no added sugar as it gets its sweetness from dates.

Date and Nut Coconut Cocoa Balls

Dates, Nuts and Oats used in low calorie Indian desserts

Dates have a low glycemic index from 43 to 55 depending on the variety, so they are a boon to diabetics to satisfy their sweet tooth. So use dates in low calorie Indian sweets. 

We suggest you try low fat gajjar halwa recipe which uses dates as a sweetener and low fat milk which works well for diabetics. Also Dry fruits stuffed dates is healthy.

Low Fat Carrot Halwa, Healthy Gajar Halwa

Make oats and mixed nuts ladoo recipe which is sweetened by jaggery,  oats and dates kheer and anjeer and mixed nuts barfi and healthy fig ice cream (not for diabetics).

Healthy  Indian Cake  or sheera dessert option.

We suggest eggless date and almond cake made from dates as the sweetener and good for diabetics, weight loss and heart. There is no flour used in the recipe.

Eggless Date and Almond Cake, Indian Healthy Cake

Try a jowar based Indian dessert which is a complex carb and will be absorbed slowly in the blood stream and not cause a spike in insulin.

The jowar apple sheera recipe is made with the addition of cows milk and apples and sweetened with honey.

Jowar Apple Sheera, Healthy Indian Sweet

Low Calorie  Sweets and Desserts Recipes, Milk Based Indian Recipes

Fig and Cardamom Delight is one of its kind dessert made with low-fat milk and figs which naturally adds to its sweetness and gives only 63 calories per serving. This recipe is also a great source of calcium.

Fig and Cardamom Delight

You can have 2 pieces of these Stuffed Lychees at one time without feeling guilty and it will also suffice your 18% of your daily calcium requirement.

Try your hands on this quick and easy to make oats and apple phirni which uses some sugar substitute.  Better than consuming those store-bought flavoured desserts.

Oats Apple Phirni

Try your hands on our other low calorie Indian sweets and desserts recipes from the options given in this section.

Also enjoy our other low calorie recipe categories given below:
Low Calorie Indian Lunch
Low Calorie Dinner
Low Calorie Salads & Raitas
Low Calorie Subzis