Prabhupada's favorite Food

Palika Devi Dasi:  "A first favorite for Prabhupada was always kachoris, especially urad dal kachoris. In sweets he liked sandesa and rasagullas. Also, he liked a good, hot jallebi. With every meal there had to be a bitter vegetable made with karela (bitter melon) or neem leaves. He liked neem baigan very much, a preparation mentioned in the Caitanya-caritamrta. Prabhupada loved urad dal, and he taught me to make it with fennel, ginger, and asafetida - all these must be in the chhaunk. Actually, Srila Prabhupada enjoyed a wide variety of foods. "Once, for weeks he would have khichdi daily with vegetables in it and lots of ghee, and hot puris and baigan bhaji (deep fried eggplant). That and nothing else. I would put the khichdi in his big rice bowl and sometimes he would ask for seconds. If Srila Prabhupada was hungry in the evening, he would take different things according to his taste. many times a ghee vegetable and puris with hot milk. I would generally use misri (sugar candy or rock candy) rather than sugar.

Sometimes he wanted milk only or a tangerine. Often he would have muri (puffed rice) with peanuts and milk. I remember a few times he would request me to leave a dish or two of sandesa on the bookshelf in case he became hungry while translating in the night. But always, except once or twice, however the sandesa would be there in the morning. Also, for months Srila Prabhupada had me prepare badas and coconut chutney for breakfast and dahi-badas for lunch. He liked these preparations and he remarked on them often. He had yogurt with his lunch every day. As time passed, it became a rule that whenever there was khichdi, there must be kadhi."