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Temples in India that offer the most scrumptious food

TIMESOFINDIA.COM | Last updated on - Dec 29, 2021, 08:00 IST
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Most scrumptious temple food

India is a land of art, culture, tradition, and good food. While every city has a story of food to tell, here every temple too has a scrumptious food story that is worth exploration. Some temples offer you ‘Prasad’, there are some that serve a wholesome meal. Today, we will take you through the temples of India that offer the most scrumptious food experience. Are you ready?

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​Annapoorneshwari Temple, Horanadu

The 400-year-old temple of Karnataka is dedicated to Annapoorneshwari, who is said to provide food for all. Every day, the temple serves food to thousands of people from all walks of life. (Image: Instagram/shakus_kitchen)

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Golden Temple, Amritsar

This is one of the most famous religious places, which is known for its scrumptious langar and as per reports, people from across India and abroad visit Golden Temple to taste the langar and Kadha Prasad. In recent times, many food bloggers have covered how langar is prepared, which includes dal, roti, rice, mixed sabzi, and sheera. (Image: Instagram/oursharedcravings)

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​Hemis Monastery, Hemis

Hemis Monastery is one of the biggest monasteries in Ladakh that serves scrumptious meals and local butter tea too. They also have provision for travelers to stay in the monastery dormitories.

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ISKCON Temple, Mumbai

If sattvik food with a lot of flavour is what attracts you the most, then you should visit ISKCON temple in Mumbai and in other cities too. They serve both lunch and dinner and as per reports, the bhojanalaya opens for devotees after the maha aarti is completed. (Image: Instagram/impho_tographer)

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​Shirdi Sai Baba Mandir Prasadalaya, Shirdi

As per reports, Shirdi Sai Baba Mandir Prasadalaya is Asia's largest kitchen run on solar energy to provide food to the people. The team cooks around 2000 kg of dal and rice daily along with other vegetable preparations in this technologically advanced kitchen.(Image: Indiatimes)

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​Tirumala Tirupati Temple

While Tirupati temple is known for its delicious prasad laddoos, you will be surprised to know that here the kitchens are equipped with solar energy and are managed by 1100 cooks, who prepare an array of South Indian dishes daily, which is served to thousands of devotees.

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​Jagannath Temple, Puri

Here, every day chhapan bhog (platter of 56 dishes) are served to the deity, which is later distributed among the devotees! The grand kitchen of Jagannath Temple is managed by hundreds of cooks who work hard every day. The Mahaprasad is prepared using tons of rice, lentils, red pumpkin, brinjal, yam, and more veggies. (Image: Instagram/soumyaranjan_dash_official)

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​Dakshineshwar, Kolkata

At Dakshineshwar, Kolkata you get to taste the comfort food of India, i.e. Khichdi which is served along with chutney and other seasonal vegetable preparations. (Image: Instagram/nayak_aman720)

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Banke Bihari, Vrindavan

Bal Bhog in the morning that include delicious kachori stuffed with aromatic dal mixture, dry aloo subzee and laddoo. This is offered to Krishna Ji in the morning. (Image: Instagram/karshnishraddha)


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RaviTej Maturi
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Idiot it's not food in temple ,it offers prasadam ....
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