An Idli lover from Hyderabad spent a whopping Rs 6 lakh on this south Indian delicacy during the last one year, revealed leading food-delivery platform Swiggy on Thursday.
Including orders for friends and family, the user placed 8,428 orders for Idlis while travelling through places like Bengaluru and Chennai.
Swiggy provided their analysis for the time period from March 30, 2022 to March 25, 2023 on March 30, the day of World Idli Day. It offers intriguing details about the south Indian delicacy’s popularity. Idli plates have been delivered by Swiggy 33 million times in the last year, demonstrating the dish’s enormous appeal with customers.
The top three cities in the world where Idlis are most frequently ordered are Bengaluru, Hyderabad, and Chennai. Delhi, Kolkata, Kochi, Mumbai, Coimbatore, Pune, Vizag, and other cities are also closely followed.
The analysis also revealed that the most popular time to order Idlis is between 8 a.m. to 10 a.m., with consumers from Chennai, Hyderabad, Bangalore, Coimbatore, and Mumbai also ordering idlis during dinner time. It also shows that plain Idli is the most popular variant across all cities, with a plate of two pieces being the most common order.
Rava Idli is more popular in Bangalore than any other city, while ghee/neyi karam podi idli is popular in cities across Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, and Telangana. Thatte idli and mini idli also feature regularly amongst idli orders across all cities.
Idlis are not just a popular breakfast item but also a healthy one, often touted as one of the most important meals of the day. The analysis reveals that idlis are the second most ordered breakfast item on Swiggy, after Masala Dosa.
Swiggy also found that customers tend to order other dishes such as sambar, coconut chutney, karampuri, medu veda, saagu, ghee, red chutney, Jain sambar, tea, coffee along with their idlis.