WP likes giving prompts, but I never tried them. I mean I haven’t found anything that could particularly interest me or anything I can write a whole blog based on it.
I haven’t participated in a prompt, but I can surely conduct a prompt where people can share their thoughts.
This is also my excuse for not finishing the blog I was working on originally (because it’s based on research). But, I am getting tons of ideas and this particular blog is one such idea.
I was thinking about what food I love the most. Like the food that I want to eat and will not possibly get bored with it. So I made a list of my top 5 favorite food.
As I am home cooked food lover, so I made sure to include only home-cooked food. However, you can tell me your top 5 favorites (home or outside) with a blog of yours.
1: Dal- Chaawal

As I have a lot of non-Hindi-speaking readers, I’ll make sure to give you the translation. Dal means lentils and chaawal means rice. This is a basic food and I think it’s very common in Indian home.
Different people make it differently, but then this can be enjoyed anytime. There are various types of lentils but my top 3 are Red split lentil, red lentil, and pigeon peas (I didn’t know it’s called that, it’s still veg btw). I personally feel these dal taste great with rice. But then there are other dals and we cannot ignore them.
Dal is made in a pressure cooker, the thickness of the dal is based on the amount of water you add and for how long you cook it.
Overall, whatever the dal is, its combo with rice never fails.
2: Puran puri

Majorly Puran puri or poli is a common food in Maharashtra (Indian state), but then it’s not a rule that others can’t eat it, haha.
Puran puri is basically made of Bengal gram split (another dal). Puri is basically a type of chapati. Bengal gram split is soaked overnight and grinded with spices and salt, and that preparation is used as a filling for the puri (made of wheat flour).
My mother makes it in to 2 ways, one is sweet, another is spicy. For sweet, she adds jaggery to it and for spicy she adds spices to it. Then, this puri is made in a round shape, it is made on a pan with some ghee (clarified butter).
These Puran puri are served with curd, chutney (made of mint or coriander).
3: Chole ki sabji

Chole means chickpeas, sabji means vegetable. In India Chole is very popular, especially in northern India. People generally eat Chole with bhatura, which is a kind of puri, made of all-purpose flour. But, I like Chole with Chaawal (rice).
It tops my list of favorite food, and the best thing is it can be enjoyed in every season (unlike my last 2 entries).
4: Makki ke dhokle

Makki is basically corn, and dhokla is a kind of cutlet made with it.
Dhokle is popular in Rajasthan, the state I live in. But, we Indians have no barriers for food. In the corn flour, we add all the spices, coriander leaves, green peas, etc. Then we prepare a dough with it and that dough is used to make dhokle. It is cooked through a steaming process. When done it is generally eaten with coriander chutney (a type of paste), and mixed dal.
Dhokle and corn flour only taste good in winter. Other than dhokla, I also like Makki ki roti, which is chapati made of corn flour.
5: Gajar ka halwa

Another winter food and a favorite in Indian homes is Gajar ka halwa or a sweet made with carrots.
Red carrots which are available in the winter are used for it. Halwa is a type of sweet or porridge. Now Gajar ka halwa is made very differently in different places. Mainly, Carrots are grated (something I help in) and milk is boiled, in that boiled milk various things like condensed milk/ cream grated carrots, sugar, dry fruits, nutmeg, or other things according to the preference are added.
This is made in a duration of a few hours or depending on the flame.
I don’t like many sweets and my diet doesn’t allow me, but I had a lot of halwa this winter as it was all homemade.
Basically, these 5 are my favorite food, I feel special delight when it’s made by my mother.
Now, the way of cooking could be different for others and I shared a basic way. I can cook, but with assistance and these are hard to make, so I gently leave it to the experts like my mother (she doesn’t allow me to work in her kitchen anyway).
What I expect from you >
I don’t want you to comment your favorite food in the comments. No, that’s not why I’ve shared this blog. I would love it if you can write a blog about your 5 favorite food. It could be your favorite home-cooked food or from outside.
You don’t need to explain the whole recipe, but just give a general idea of how it’s made.
You can write and share your blog till 17th April.
I think this prompt will showcase a different variety of food from different corners of the world.
You will hear (or read) from me soon, till then Kindly Smile.
My last prompt
FGW’s Prompt – Healthy things
Healthy things that you do->
111 responses to “FGW’s prompt-Favorite food”
This is interesting as a person from South Africa with a close relation with our indian community. Your order of favorites is interesting and the way you describe how the foods are made makes me think these might be completely different meals. I wish you had added pictures 😃 . Interesting read.
As per your suggestion, I added pics 🙂
What’s your favorite?
Would you be interested to write a blog about it?
I like briyani, but I don’t think I can make it wellenough to take a picture. 😊
You can share pics from the internet. I did that 😝
Which biryani??
Chicken? Mutton??
CHICKEN, 90% of the time but I will never say NO to mutton either. I would eat vegeterian briyani as long as it is briyani.
Sounds interesting 😋
Here chicken biryani is hard to find, that taste good.
People are incapable to make it in restaurants.
Very interesting.😊😊
Thanks sir
Jai shree ram
These meals look good. I think I tasted Dal that was boiled for 30 minutes and not seasoned😮. That Dal looks seasoned.
Boiled dal which is not season is good too
But then seasoning, especially with asafoetida and cumin taste great.
Then some green chilli, red chilli powder, coriander leaves.
It all depends on our preference.
My preference is definitely seasoned food.🤣😂
Boiled dal is good too
It can be eaten when you don’t need anything spicy
I love these yummy meals Devang. Hugs! 💞
I would like to read a blog from your side. If you are interested to write 🙂
How are you?
Why comments are off in your last blog?
I’d love it at some point.. but i’m cra cra busy right now. comments off for the same reason.. lol 🥰 back on tomorrow .,.. xo
Yo
Take care then
See you around
Thanks my friend and have a great night!!! 💞
You have a peaceful day ahead
Thanks a lot and you too!!! ❣️
🌺🔆
Home cooked meals are the best, indeed!!
Would try to share a blog by my side😊
You have to 😝
I’ll wait 😁
Okay🙌
Pata to chale tumari choice of food
Food tells a lot about person 😀
Aisa bhi h kya😅
Yes, read it somewhere!
Will wait
You have a sunday coming up
I guess you can manage it 🙂
The deadline was my birthday but I can still do it right?
17th march is your bday? 🤔
You take 2 days extra for being sweet ma’am 😝
okay
When is your birthday??
Are you always this serious?
yes, of course
Okay cool ☺️
17th March? You mean April? or March 2024? 🙂
I’ll need to see what I might still have photos of
Yes 17th April.
I made many mistakes in this unplanned blog 🤦🏻♂️
Sounds yummy! My current favorite is buckwheat cooked in broth with fired onions and mushrooms. Very unctuous!
Hey that’s great.
I’ll check out what it is
When it’s cooked, many call it Kasha.
Everything looks delicious, Devang. I am not able to participate in your food post, but I wish you great success gathering from others. Have a great week!
Thanks for the comment
Have a great week ahead
Why comments on your latest blog is turned off? 😟
It’s my Sunday pace, Mr. Up. I enjoy a quick share Sunday mornings, followed by the quiet of disconnecting during the day. 🌞 I do enjoy connecting with other creatives in this bloggy space, which is why you can catch me during other posts, should you choose. There, now you know. No need to ask again. 😂 Have a wonderful week!
😛
Nice to see the pictures of the food you like! I want to try 1 and 4. I really like Asian food, particularly sushi.
Hey thanks ☺️
1 and 4 are indeed very tasty.
I never tried sushi
Yay, I love to learn more about you! 😌 This is my first time hearing about these dishes, I like how you included photos. I LOVEEE rice and lentils, so Dal- Chaawal really caught my attention! It looks delicious, flavorful, and hearty 🥰 I wish I could try dal. ❤️ Thank you for sharing some of your favorite foods with us !!
You can definitely make a dal!
😁
It’s easy and quick.
Dal chaawal is very basic, but a must try.
We have very different taste in food haha. I don’t like chole or daal that much. I still eat them but I don’t love them. However, I do love Indian rice dishes like biryani and pulao. I love dhokla but I’ve never had the corn ones. They sound delicious and would love to try them someday.
You mean by dhokla made of gram flour right?
As you have Gujarati roots, so I guess that makes sense 😀
I personally recommend you
Makki ka dhokla(winters only) and puran puri.
I’m sure you have eaten gajar ka halwa tons of time
I wonder how it will taste with almond milk 🤔
Yes, that’s the one. Us Gujarati’s love our gram flour dhokla especially with daal-chawal. It’s winter here so I’ll try the makki ka dhokla.
Yes, I hate carrots but like the halwa. It’s the only exception to my no carrots rule lol. I haven’t tries it with almond milk but coconut milk tastes very good.
Here dhokla is eaten with 2 different kinds of chutneys.
I’m sure you are also aware with foods like
Fafda, khandvi, srikhand, thepla 😀
As it’s winter, you can definitely try makki ka dhokla ( that’s the first time you said 3 consecutive hindi words 😛)
Oh yes, I now remember you hate carrots. Usually halwa is made with milk, but as you are vegan so I wonder what you use instead of that.
Soy milk won’t be a good alternative!
What about Cream ? 🤔
Yes, I do love Gujarati food although I have to admit a lot of it is not very healthy 😅
Apparently my mum has made makki ka dhokla she just hadn’t ever made it when I was around. Will definitely try it soon.
My mum uses coconut milk when she makes halwa. Coconut cream works too.
Well yeah gujrati food is tasty. Your mother doesn’t want to feed you makki ka dhokla 😛
Coconut milk works just fine.
Hey, I want to write a blog on topic:
What I eat in a day
If you allow.
Yeah, I don’t own What I Eat In A Day lol. Feel free to post your own 😅
Yeah but the heading and idea is yours 😀
Haha yeah, I think I started it on WP but it was already popular on YT.
Well I don’t care about YT
i care about you and your work
Thanks for allowing me
I look forward to your WIEIAD post 🙂
Ohhh, that’s what it’s called. I’m stealing that
😅
Hi Devang,
I hope ki tumhe ye saari dishes banani aati ho, kyunki mujhe in me se maximum pasand aai hai. Aur mujhe khana bhi hai!
Will I be able to participate in this prompt?
I’m not sure. I have nothing much to share.
You can add “Daal-Baati” in this list.
Mujhe bahut pasand hai!
Everyone hates “Daliya” and “Khichadi” but mujhe yeh dono pasand hai. Tabhi jab thik se bane ho.
“Dhokla” hum logon ke yahan bhi banta, par bessan wala.
“Makke aur Bajare ki roti” bhi banti hai. Isme yellow makki ki roti ka taste thoda alag hota hai.
Maine Jwar ki bhi roti khaai hai. Par utni kuchh khaas nhi lagi woh.
I avoid oily and spicy food. Normal, healthy aur fresh food chalega.
Hungry? Zomato
Daal baati meri top 10 me he, wo sunday ko usually ban jati he to common he.
Yaha khata kichdi popular he
Makki ki roti yellow atte se hi better rehti he
White wali itni khas ni baithti
Na bhai, tumse kuchh n manga.
Maine mess se khana kha liya hai.
Good ab so jao
(🥱The person on the other side is 😴 sleeping. Therefore, he can’t reply.)
Hi, Devang. I know you always tell me not to be sorry, but in this case, I do owe you an apology for not being able to read your post here before today. Plus, I think I might have missed a couple of your recent posts, too. I am so sorry, and I’m annoyed with myself because I like to read your work as it’s always so interesting, and I like the way you interact with your readers.
At the moment, I am frantically busy with a very big event taking place in London next week. There is an awful lot of organising and preparation to do before then. I hope to be able to read more blogs during the week before the event takes place. I will write about it after the event, as I hope to have some photos to share by then, too.
Anyway, I wanted to say I enjoyed this post, and all the photos and descriptions of these foods make me feel very hungry. They all look delicious. Most of them I haven’t heard of, but things like Dal I love, and I make it with red split lentils. I also love chickpeas (Chole) – they are great when made into hummus, too. I don’t generally have a sweet tooth, but your Gajar ka halwa looks absolutely delicious. I’ve never heard of red carrots. Are they something specific to where you live, as I’ve never seen them in the UK? I like ordinary porridge but can imagine a type of porridge made with red carrots would be wonderful. I used to really like condensed milk, but I haven’t yet found a vegan version of it. I do love the spice nutmeg, too, as well as cinnamon. I wish I had some of that for my pudding tonight.
Thanks for sharing this ‘delicious’ post, my friend. I really enjoyed it. Take care. Ellie 😊.
Don’t be sorry, I’m glad you are here
I am looking forward for the pics and more details of the event.
Chole is my favorite sabji, let’s say that. Infact I will eat it today. I will research more about Hummus.
Red carrots are mainly available in winters, I need to know about UK in that case. Orange are available in all the seasons, but red is naturally sweet. Juice is also made out of them, along with some vegetable with peas and curry patta.
Cinnamon, mace, nutmeg, cardamom does some special magic in the food.
For spicy food clove, bay leaf, some red chill does wonders.
Take care, and keep smiling.
Hi bro even i want to create Cooking blog like you.Can you give me some tips how to start
Simple
Share stuff that is easy to understand
Use amicable langauge
Write a smooth blog, that people can relate with
Then make sure to interact with every reader/commentor
Use proper keywords and connect with people with like-minded people.
Ok thank you.Whether we can earn from here?
You need to invest prodigious time on that
First aim to build trust.
Share stuff that people can understand and relate with.
ok
Because i want to do this as a part time
Daal-Chaawal reminds me of Daal-khichdi that I take at least twice a week, and it’s so easy to make. As name suggests, just mix the ingredients, pulse, rice, salt, tomato, peas, cauliflower etc and cook. Add Desi ghee and papad and enjoy.
Khichdi ke 4 yaar
Ghee, papard, dahi, aachar.
I love such khichdi as well, super healthy with additional veggies 🥗
Oh yes, that’s true! I like it.
Every dish is my favorite too except 4th one..I never tried that.😅
Well maybe you can try it next winter.
Definitely worth a try 🙂
Omg you like homecooked food THATS interesting.
You don’t??
Nope 🐻❄️
Best wishes
I hope to see you healthy till the time you reach my age 😝
I love exploring new recipes! Your post is making me hungry, lol. There is nothing better than homemade food seasoned with love ❤️
Let me know some of your favorites
Now that prompt has expired, you can share here!!
Hmmmm… coffee, tacos, coffee, hamburgers on the grill, coffee, my mom’s potato salad, coffee, egg wraps, tea, and chocolate 🍫 😋 Did I mention coffee? ☕️ ☕️ ☕️
Poor tea is just sitting silently, with all the coffee here!!
haha
Now, I’m hungry!!
LOL, I was in desperate need of extra coffee this morning. Now it’s tea time 💞
Great ☕🫖
Enjoy
Bhaiyya your from maharastra ? I lovvee Puran Poli like yummm
especially with loadsof ghee in it 😋
I am from Rajasthan, as mentioned in the blog.
When was the last time you eat it?
But Im sure you would have been to Bombay , haven’t you ? Cause Puran Poli is marathi dish !
Puran poli is Marathi dish
But as mentioned, it’s eaten in other places as well 🙂
obviously , various dishes belonging to a particular place are many a times eaten even worldwide and that’s the beauty of delicacies 🙌🏻✨😋✨
Yes, true that
also Im unable to comment on your super cool blog Devang , is the option disabled?
I’m seeing your comments!!
Are you talking about any other blog and comment!?
yeah I’m talking about other blog post , so the ones I’ve commented is working good , there only few posts hardly where the reply button didnt work
I don’t see your comment/likes anywhere else
Let me know the post name
syre!
sure*
maybe tech glitch yeah , npjk
BTW i love rajasthani kachoris , i just had one few minutes back < 3
That’s great 😃
These dishes sound delicious! I have always loved chickpeas so I will have to try them. 🌼😊
Let me know how it goes 😁
Will do! 😊
everything that is healthy 🤪😜😝
Tell me more about it 😀
I would like to know more ☺️
What if you are calling pizza as healthy 😝
yes, if someone wants weight gain it’s easiest way to gain fatty tummy 😝
True !
Looks like the secret to a happy life: ‘Everything that is healthy!’ 🌱🙌 By the way, I stumbled upon another blog post recently that I think you’d find intriguing too! https://www.thebestsingapore.com/eat-and-drink/the-5-best-halal-buffets-in-singapore/
Thanks for letting me know