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HDG Shrila Prabhupada's
Prasadam Favorites
by HG Palika Devi Mataji

Palika Devi Mataji
: A first favorite for
Shrila Prabhupada was
always kachoris, especially urad dal Kachories.☺
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 ShriCaitanya-caritamrta.
Shrila Prabhupada
loved urad dal, and he taught me to make it with fennel, ginger, and asafetida - all these must be in the chhaunk. ☺

Actually,
Shrila 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 Shrila 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
Shrila Prabhupada i prepared
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."☺

Reference: Srila Prabhupada Nectar by HG Palika Devi Mataji.
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From Sastwarupa dasa: While staying in Sydney, Srila Prabhupada held an initiation and sacrifice in the backyard. The devotees then brought Srila Prabhupada the Deities’ maha-prasadam. He looked at the plate and picked out one puri. He smelled it, poked it with his fingers, and then tasted it. "This puri is the best puri," he said. "It is perfect. Bring me the man who has cooked this puri."

The devotees ran off and found the fortunate cook, Kurma dasa. They brought him before Prabhupada, who said, "Thank you very much for following the rules and regulations. I can understand that to cook such a puri you are following all the rules nicely." Prabhupada explained that that was the way to do things properly - to follow, to be strict.

"I don’t like second-class things," he said. "I like first-class puris." Every day while in Sydney, Prabhupada used to have Kurma’s first-class puris and he liked them very much indeed.🌿🌿🌿🌿🌿🌿🌺🌺🌺🌿🌿🌿🌿🌿🌿🌿🌿🌿🌿🌿🌿🌿🌿🌿🌿

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