Janmashtami celebrates a wide range of foods, including sweets, savoury dishes, and fruits.

Malpua, a fried pancake made of flour, milk, and ghee, is eaten with sugar syrup. Other delicacies include badam phirni, a milk pudding made from rice paste, sugar, almonds and pistachios. You can also have sweets made with khoya, paneer, milk, and almond.

Savoury dishes include meva ke ladoo, murukku, chakli, and Makhana Paag, which is made with foxnuts, coconut, milk, and sugar.

Fruits: During the Janmashtami fast, you are allowed to eat as many fruits as you desire, whether they are sweet, sour, raw, or ripe. Fresh or dried fruits can keep you energetic and strengthen your immune system.