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Sonia Gandhi has revealed some of her favourite Indian dishes, including Gujarati food from Surat and a few others. Sonia revealed that arhar dal has remained a constant in the family kitchen over the years.
She said that although she now loves several Indian dishes, enjoying the food did not come naturally to her in the beginning. Believe it or not, I love Gujarati food from Surat,” she said. “And dal chawal, that’s my favourite in our house,” Priyanka said in between. No other dal,” she said.
She also recalled how it took her time to get used to Indian food when she first arrived in the country, admitting that the variety initially amazed her while the spices made her nervous. In a video shared on her Instagram account, Sonia spoke about her relationship with Indian food during a conversation with her daughter, Priyanka Gandhi . “I love Indian food. Bengali food I love. Talking about her early days in India, Sonia admitted that adjusting to the country’s food was not easy. “It took me time to get used to Indian food. You know, it was difficult for me to enjoy Indian food right at the beginning. I didn’t know how to cook when I came, but later, slowly, I learned,” she recalled. Sonia also mentioned some Kashmiri dishes she enjoys. “And the Kashmiri kosta and the haakh. Haakh is a Kashmiri dish. The conversation then turned to the food cooked in the Gandhi household. She also described how her feelings about Indian food changed over the years. “At first the variety amazed me and the spice scared me. Now dal chawal is the taste of home, and I can’t go a day without it,” she added.
“So in our house, from the day I came to this house, till today, the only dal cooked is arhar ki dal.
