Biryani tops food chart, becomes most ordered dish in India amid lockdown: Report

new rmal amid COVID-19 outbreak might have witnessed a lot of changes, but some old habits die hard—like people's love for Biryani. 'StatEATistics reports: Quarantine Edition' from food delivery platform has shown that favourite food for Indians during lockdown was biryani. According to reports, Indians stuck at home during COVID-19 lockdown ordered biryani from ir favourite eateries over 5.5 lakh times.

India's most ordered lockdown dish

While Indians love for biryani won dish number one spot, butter nan occupied second with 3,35,185 orders, followed by masala dosa with 3,31,423 orders. reports by food platform also showed that biryani topped list and has w topped list of most ordered dishes for fourth year in a row.

Coming to desserts, report showed that most frequently ordered dessert was choco lava cake which was ordered around 1,29,000 times. " humble Gulab Jamun (84,558) and chic Butterscotch Mousse cake (27,317) followed suit," said report.

Though birthday parties and cake cutting sessions were replaced by video calls amid lockdown,  food delivery platform delivered nearly 1,20,000 cakes. In dition, platform ted that on an aver, 65,000 orders were placed by 8 pm so that food can be delivered by dinner time; this proved to be busiest time for platform and its partners.

During India’s lockdown, food delivery platform delivered 40 million orders including food, groceries, medicines and or household items.

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Dineout survey shows different results

According to survey conducted by Dineout and published on its official website, Indians amid lockdown have been majorly craving for pizza and biryani during home confinement imposed to stem transmission rate of vel coronavirus. While indoor, people have been craving Indian cuisines and delicacies. Also, survey revealed that many missed eating at ir favourite food joints with loved ones and did t prefer to cook back at home, except that y h choice during pandemic.

In metropolitan cities, people majority crave for Italian dishes, pizza being on top of ir list. This mostly includes die-hard cheese lovers, survey revealed.

However, cities like Kolkata, Hyderab, and Chennai, which are major food hubs and have a myri of regional cuisines, people prefer biryani to continental dishes.

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