vegan

I don't know about food of the gods, but carrots are an underrated food. They're tasty raw, great for hummus and dips. They're great cooked in savory dishes but sweet enough to be used in desserts or juices and smoothies. I'll eat a pile of carrots sauteed in oil with just salt and pepper.

Chili bean paste, I'm constantly making mapo tofu with it, im so addicted at this point

Mangos. I feel like I'm eating Gods pussy. I have juices all over my chin when I'm finished.

I think I have onion in every meal of the day, every day of the week, and it never gets boring because there's so many ways to have onions! Caramelized, dried, fried, baked, raw, powdered, it's all so good. Red, green, white, yellow, gimme gimme gimme

maize is my #1 food. I like it best nixtamalized, but there are a ton of amazing corn meal recipes out there too. I eat tamales the most, but pupusas are my favorite. Classic style with pumpkin and pepitoria. Super nutritious and has a symbiotic relationship with pumpkin and beans.

Avocado. Hands down.

We don't usually think of it as being cooked, but it can be grilled (cut sidedown on a grill for a few minutes then filled with salsa or beans, the grill make it smokey but the inside stays creamy), baked and stuffed, seared in a pan, cooked in a soup, and there are avocado fries. But it is delicious and often best uncooked, literally just completely on its own with nothing else it is rich and nutritionally substantial. It often is eaten totally on its own, or maybe with a little salt sprinkled on it but also sliced up and put on/in just about any Mexican food or put on sandwiches or in salads. Its flavor can be nutty, faintly sweet, even "grassy" and even though its delicious its subtle enough it doesn't compete to overpower whatever else its with is partly what makes it so versatile.

Obviously as guacamole it is once again highly versatile.

It works for lunch, dinner, snack, and even breakfast or dessert depending on how it's used since its fat and creaminess can stand in as butter or oil for everything from brownies to mousses to frozen desserts. It is essentially plant-made butter and was even called "poor man's butter" in places where it was common and cheap. It is ridiculously healthy largely because it is so dense with healthy fats. Those monounsaturated fats are healthy in their own right but also help the body take up nutrients from other parts of a meal, and they provide high satiety, they actually help make you feel full and sated. On top of that, avocados are loaded with micronutrients we need. I've read somewhere that if there was only one single food a person could eat and nothing else, (not that that would be a good idea, just like if you were cursed and had to choose only one) then avocado is in the front running for the best candidate because it has more stuff you need in a single place than just about any other single food. And to me at least, it would also be in the running purely for its taste.

Avocados do three great (and rare in the SAD) things, they nourish like a whole food, satisfy like a luxury ingredient, and adapts to tons of different uses/cusines as an addition or even as the primary aspect of the dish.

Oh yeah and millennial avocado toast.

It's chickpeas and how dare you

Onions and yes

my first thought was dates, nature's candy

put some peanut butter and a chocolate chip in there and you got yourself a healthy candy bar

my second thought was nooch lol all good answers in here though

chickpeas are great. you can get pallets of cans for cheap, use them for all sorts of dishes and if you have prep time you can cook them from dry and buy that in bulk.

very easy to turn into hummus or any number of dips, add into pasta dishes, curries, soups, wraps.

plus the fiber from them makes them nice and filling.

Fresh garden tomatoes.

Wild mushrooms have to be one. They are incredible and can provide all the umami you ever need, not to mention complex flavours. The vegan foods I make so often rely on shrooms, I use a lot of dried mushrooms.

There's a species I like to pick that tastes like curry and if you put it somewhere sweet it tastes like liquorice. Amazing.

Pickled, dried, salted, raw, cooked... always great.

Edit. They are also a gift from the earth in a way that makes me feel very humbled. I can just walk into the forest and all these wonderful things are just there.

When I have very good shrooming luck like I did today, I do tend to say a thanks to the local spirits and gods of the forest, in true pagan fashion, lol. Those beliefs are still very much alive in the day to day customs even though we rarely think about it.

Ripe fruit, in this morning's case, a nectarine

I don’t think I understand the question but lentils are my favourite vegan ingredient I put them in all my warm meals

Cilantro

Watermelon. I could eat it everyday.

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