10 Tricolour Food Ideas to make Independence Day Fun For Your Family
Are you planning to do something special for Independence Day this year? It is great fun to hold an Independence Day party for your children and their friends or just cooking something special at times. Celebrating Independence Day teaches a sense of respect and pride for your country, rather than celebrating the day as just another holiday.
Here are a few ideas for Independence-Day-themed Tricolour food for your party. Why Tricolour? Because these are the colours of our flag:
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Tricolour Fruit salad
Place orange slices, cut bananas, and sliced kiwis or green grapes to make the tricolour fruit salad.
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Tricolour Vegetable salad
You can choose carrots for saffron colour, steamed cauliflower or grated radish for white and broccoli pieces, cucumber slices or steamed green beans for green.
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Tricolour dhokla
Divide your dhokla batter into 3 separate bowls
For the saffron layer- Add carrot and tomato puree to one bowl and whisk until smooth.
For the white layer– Finely grate coconut and whisk into the second bowl of batter.
For the green layer- Make a green chutney using coriander leaves and a few spinach leaves and whisk in this paste into the third bowl. You can get as innovative as you want when it comes to creating dishes of the Tricolour food.
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Tricolour Cookies
Decorate your cookies with three colours of icing.
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Tricolour rice
Cook rice in three different containers by adding tomato and carrot purees for saffron and green coriander or spinach pastes in two containers while keeping the last one plain. Flavour them with your favourite spices and then use a mould to place first green, then white and finally saffron rice. From breakfast to lunch to dinner, you can create an entire menu with tricolour foods.
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Tricolour pasta
Pasta is an all-time favourite dish for kids. Place tricolour pasta topped with cheese and it is bound to be a hit with kids.
Here are some pasta recipes that you can try.
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Tricolour Dosas and Tricolor idlis
Divide your dosa batter into three equal parts.
Add Orange food colour to one part, and green food colour to another part.
You may also use coriander paste and carrot paste to get the colours naturally.
Now use this orange, white and green batters to make dosa and idlis
You may also make mini idlis and put them into a skewer, which is great to look at and easy to eat.
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Tricolour cake
You may get a cake baked and decorated in saffron, white and green icing or alternatively use tricolour food colouring to get different colour layers.
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Tricolour cupcakes
You may also bake cupcakes in three different colours using food colouring and do a tricolour food icing on the top.
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Tiranga Halwa
For deserts, you can make three types of halwas and arrange them in a tricolour.
Green layer – palak halwa
White layer- cucumber halwa
Orange layer- carrot halwa
Are you going to make anything special for this Independence Day? Hope these ideas for a tricolour breakfast will help you colour your dining tables!!
Oh this is giving me a new way to celebrate Independence day.. wonderful
Thank you Ruchi
This is really a creative way of cooking.. I love the trip colour cookies and definitely try it at home to make my daughter happy
Super 🙂
These are great tri-coloured tips! Loved the dosa idea! My kids would love these fun food ideas! Especially the cakes and halwa
So cool! Such fun ideas! I was thinking of telling my mom that she should have done something like this to try and get me to eat veggies as a kid. Then I remembered I am a mom now and have to start prepping myself to get my little one to eat 😉 😉
haha :)!
The pictures look tempting. I was actually looking for tricolour items to be sent along with my child to school for their lunch I got nice idea from this post. Tricolour dosa looks just perfect.
Thanks 🙂
Amazing delicacies. I wanna go for dhokla and tri colour rice and for desserts a cake would work. So I guess I need to work for the full day tomorrow to have such delectables on the menu:)
Pick one..don’t be in the kitchen the whole day.
Tricolour dishes look so yummy and colourful. This independence day I will try out some recipe and make my family happy with tri colour smile
I am definitely going to try tri color dosa, sandwich and pasta for my girl. I hope she likes it
Super :)!
Tri-colour delights and goodness of gastronomy fun in the plate. Love the ideas and color riot from the kitchen, dhokla and cakes are my personal favorite. Thanks for sharing
Thank you, Dipika!
Wow, this is an immensely beautiful post. I have tried the tri-coloured pasta but the rest I have to try soon.
Sure! Try and let me know!
I absolutely loved the tri-coloured rice and dhokla and pasta ideas. It is such a fun way for kids
I totally agree Charu
I’ve tried few of these but tricolour cookies are something I haven’t made yet. Great way to incorporate tricolour in food and teach our kids too.
Thank you Varsh!
Tricolour dosa! Tricolour dhokla! Yes! Those are my favourite… i love dosa and dhokla and I want this tomorrow! Sending mom this right now! ? Thank you for including my favourites! ?
Thank you so much Mrinal!
Palak halwa and cucumber halwa sounds really innovative. I have made tricolour halwa using bottle gourd halwa for green, potato halwa for white and carrot for orange. Your combination is tempting !! Surely giving this a try.
Sure! Thanks Anubhuti!
Wow I too make tricolor dishes at home always on both national days so that we can celebrate in society
Great, Snehalata!
tricolor pasta, rice, cake, Shilpa, ice cream… Everything looks so nice and delicious. Thanks for publishing the article. I was confused about tomorrow’s special breakfast 🙂
You are welcome. I am glad you found this beautiful.
Creativity at its best. Love everything about this post. So colorful and vibrant Dishes
Thanks, Papri :).
These are something very unique ideas. Last year I had made tricolour idlis .
Wow this looks so good n Interesting and at the same time a fun way to celebrate Independence day ..
I am reading it late but will try tricolor dosa for sure. Prerna: I met your father in Delhi and he told me about your blog. You are doing a great job, I referred this website to my friends also.
Thank you so much! I am really glad you like it. This is not one of my best posts so, do check out the others as well!