### 9 Festive Recipes for Chaitra Navratri 2024

Chaitra Navratri marks the beginning of the new year in the Hindu calendar. During these nine auspicious days, devotees observe fasting and worship the various forms of Goddess Durga. Though fasting is an integral part of Navratri, that doesn’t mean one has to abstain from delicious food. In fact, this is the time when families and friends come together to prepare an array of lip-smacking vegetarian delicacies. Read along to learn the amazing 9-day fasting recipe.

### Flavorful Chicken and Tomatillo Stew Recipe: A Delicious Jocón Dish

Jocón — whose name comes from jok’, meaning to grind or mash in Mayan K’iche’ — is a fresh chicken and tomatillo stew that is popular throughout Guatemala The stew stems from Mayan culture but some of its ingredients today, like sesame seeds and chicken, were likely introduced by Spanish colonizers Some Mayan groups also made theirs more spicy, or with red tomatoes rather than tomatillos, depending on in which part of the country they lived

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