Kerala delights
The best thing about traveling in Kerala is that one never has to eat the same typical food everywhere. You can delight your taste buds in each region of Kerala as each district has its own mouth-watering sumptuous delicacies that should not be missed at any price. Nearly every dish consists of rice followed by coconut and tapioca while spices add luscious flavors to the scrumptious food. The food is cooked only in coconut oil and served mainly on banana leaves. Here you can eat parboiled rice called chorus in the native language, it is believed to be very nutritious.
Breakfast forms the most important part of Kerala cuisine which has tasty and appetizing dishes. A healthy breakfast usually consists of the following dishes:
The world famous –Idlis, dosas Y medu wada served with tradition sambar and coconut chutney,
puttu (a steamed dish containing rice flour and grated coconut),
appam/palapam,
Vattayappam (steamed rice cake made from rice flour and coconut milk),
ari patiri (thin rice roti)
kadala curry (composed of black chickpeas)
Idiyappam (flour tortillas made from rice flour, salt and water served with potato, egg, fish or meat curry and coconut chutney)
Keralites lunch is very elaborate and extravagant which is called Sadya. It is a traditional vegetarian meal served on a banana leaf. It has parboiled rice served with curry, side dishes, savory, pickles and desserts.
curry: parippua liquid curry made up of small gram and ghee, sambar, Rasam, curry kottu made of diced potatoes with onions and green chilies.
fittings: avyal It is a mixture of vegetables, coconut paste and green chillies that is seasoned with a tablespoon of coconut oil and curry leaves added after cooking. avyal it’s out of the stove. toran It consists of a diluted string of beans, cabbage, radish or grams. The spice is added with red chili peppers and the sweet flavor with grated coconut, which is simply delicious! OlanPairing: Diced pumpkin and red chickpeas cooked with fine coconut milk sauce
Tasty: tall which are fried banana slices, papadam they are wafers made from black gram flour, Ginger Pickle.
The feast finally ends with the serving of desserts such as payasam Prayed pazham. Also kaalanwhich has buttermilk flavored with ginger, turmeric, and green chilies.
If you are still hungry and want to know more about Kerala cuisine, you should not miss these famous late night snacks. These snacks are the true essence of the diversity of Kerala.
Sukhiyan it is one of the traditional Kerala snacks that is available at all tea stalls. It is made up of moong dal and jaggery, Vattappam, Kozhukatta This is a sweet snack especially made during Easter, it is a ball of dough filled with grated coconut and jaggery. For banana lovers there are a variety of snacks offered by Kerala such as unnakkai (sweet banana and coconut sandwich), mulaku bajji (fried banana), Unniappam (fried sandwich based on rice flour, bananas and jaggery), Ethakka Varattiyathu (fried plantain fries), Avalosa/ Avilosa Podi.
If you are tired of eating vegetarian food, Kerala is the go-to place to eat non-vegetarian food that not only uses chicken and meat but also has a diverse collection of seafood. Malabar and Mappila cuisines offer the best non-vegetarian dishes, including the delicious Chicken Biryani, also called Kerala biryani, Meen Pathiri (flatbread stuffed with fish seasoned with spices), Kallummakkaya (mussels) curry that can be eaten with appam or parotta (unleavened bread). The two districts that serve Malabar and Mappila cuisines are Kozhikode and Thalassery, which makes it a point to visit these two places to savor the heavenly dishes.
Meen Pollichathu It is a dish belonging to the central part of Kerala. It is prepared by seasoning the fish with various spices, then it is wrapped in a banana leaf and cooked. This special delicacy is available in all restaurants in Kerala.