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Write an essay on your favorite food dal, rice

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DAL RICE STORY: AN INSEPARABLE PART OF MY Mid Day MEAL | Annamrita

May 10, 2017 - by Annamrita

As a person with a penchant for trotting the globe for food, as unbelievable as it may sound, but my favorite plate of food is the modest meal of home-cooked dal (yellow lentils) sans the tadka and steamed rice. Dal Rice is a staple in every Indian household.

The simplicity of the meal, its delectable appeal, and nutritional importance struck my life early on and since then has remained with me.

My earliest and also the fondest memory related to food is when my nani (maternal grandmother) fed me. It surprisingly turned out to be a wonderful diet for me. It wasn’t a fancy feast but a bowl of thick toor (pigeon pea) dal topped over softened, almost paste-like consistency rice; a dish popularly termed as varan bhaat in my native land of coastal Konkan region. The dal was merely boiled, coarsely pureed, and flavored with salt & turmeric. Occasionally, she would drizzle the dish with a spoonful of tup or ghee. My nani would feed dal rice to me by cooking up a story that Mowgli, my favorite fictional character from The Jungle Book, back then consumed it, so I should eat dal rice. But in the guise of this excuse, she was only ensuring I received nourishment with a balanced meal of carbohydrates, proteins, and fats, ideal for my delicate digestive system.  

Time and again this meal surfaced at different junctures in my life. During my teenage years when I was hit with an intestinal complication, the only food that came to my rescue was dal rice. This meal proved a savior in the form of my sustenance during my recuperation period. Thus, it came as no surprise that when I learned how to cook I opted to learn my grandmother’s dal rice recipe before anything else. And, to date dal rice is an inseparable part of my meal.Many Indians eat dal rice and it is one of the tastiest foods I have ever eaten if any wants to try a new food I would tell them to eat it.

In many temples to they keep this food so we can say that it is also a religious food as they offer it in temples.

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