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Krishna Janmashtami

A fast until midnight, then butter, milk sweets and everything the child Krishna loved.

baby Krishna - Sleeping beauty
Photo: Nvvchar, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

What is eaten for Krishna Janmashtami

Janmashtami celebrates the birth of Krishna at midnight. Devotees fast through the day and break it after the midnight worship. The offerings are the things the child Krishna is said to have loved, above all butter, curd and milk. Homes prepare panchamrit, milk sweets such as peda, and panjiri, a roasted mix of flour or coriander seed with sugar and nuts. In Tamil homes small footprints are drawn to the altar and fried snacks such as seedai and murukku are made. In Maharashtra young men form human towers to break a hanging pot of curd.

The dishes

PedaMilk sweet tied to Mathura, the birthplace of Krishna.PanchamritaMilk, curd, ghee, honey and sugar, used in worship and shared.KheerMilk pudding for the god who loved milk.ShrikhandSweet strained yoghurt in western India.

Also part of it, and being written: Panjiri (Roasted sweet mix offered at midnight.), Murukku (Crisp fried rice flour snacks made in Tamil homes for the day.).

More dishes made for Krishna Janmashtami

MohanthalVegetarian 🇮🇳 IndiaFudge-like sweet of gram flour, ghee and sugar from western India Sweet or dessert
About this page

Written by the Thali desk with AI assistance. Background: "Krishna Janmashtami" on Wikipedia. Customs differ from family to family and place to place. If this is your tradition and we have it wrong, tell us.

Photo credits on this page

The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.

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