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News Topical, Digital Desk : The Jagannath Puri temple of Odisha is full of shocking mysteries. This year, on 27 June 2025, during the Rath Yatra to be held here, lakhs of devotees will see many unique traditions here. You will feel the divinity in this temple. At the same time, there are many things in the temple, which you will be surprised to know about.
The world's largest kitchen is the kitchen of the Jagannath Puri temple. In this kitchen built on an area of about 15 thousand square feet, about 500 cooks and 300 assistants prepare food together. It is said that in this kitchen, on a normal day, prasad is prepared for about 20 thousand people and on a special day, for about 50 thousand people.
There is no day when a devotee does not get prasad. It is believed that this happens because Goddess Lakshmi herself takes care of this kitchen. The main spread here is rice, but apart from this, Malpua is sometimes offered to Lord Jagannath.
These vegetables are not used
Chhappan bhog thali is also offered to Lord Jagannath. One special thing about this is that some vegetables are not used in this thali. Tomatoes, potatoes, cauliflower, cabbage, beetroot, corn, green peas, carrots, turnips, chillies, coriander, beans, bitter gourd and ladyfinger are not used in the vegetables prepared in the temple kitchen.
only local materials are used
Actually, it is believed that all the ingredients of the Mahaprasad prepared in the temple of Lord Jagannath Ji should be local. This is why foreign vegetables like tomatoes and potatoes are not used here. In the local language, tomatoes are called bilni, which has been given because it was brought here by foreigners.
Tomatoes were brought to India by foreigners. In earlier times, it was grown by foreigners only. That is why many vegetables including tomatoes are not used in the temple of Jagannath Puri. Cardamom and cloves are used as spices.
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