Kerala delicacies
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 every region of Kerala as each district has its own sumptuous, mouth-watering delicacies that are not to be missed at any price. Almost every dish consists of rice followed by coconut and tapioca while the spices add exquisite flavors to the scrumptious food. The food is cooked only in coconut oil and is mostly served on banana leaves. Here you can eat parboiled rice called chorus in the native language, which is believed to be very nutritious.
Breakfast forms the most important part of the Kerala cuisine which has tasty and appetizing dishes. A healthy breakfast usually consists of the following dishes:
The world famous –Idlis, Dosas and medu wada served with tradition sambar and coconut chutney,
puttu (a steamed dish containing rice flour and shredded coconut),
appam/palapam,
Vattayappam (steamed rice cake made from rice flour and coconut milk),
Ari Pathiri (thin rice roti)
kadala curry (composed of black chickpeas)
Idiyappam (thread tortillas made of rice flour, salt and water served with potato, egg, fish or meat curry and coconut chutney)
The 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 curries, side dishes, savouries, pickles and desserts.
curry: parippua liquid curry made up of small gram and ghee, sambar, Rasam, kotu curry made of diced potatoes with onions and green chiles.
fittings: Aviyal It is a mixture of vegetables, coconut paste and green chilies that is seasoned with a tablespoon of coconut oil and curry leaves that are added after cooking. Aviyal it’s off the stove. toran consists of a thin string of beans, cabbage, radish, or grams. The spice is added with red chillies and the sweet flavor with shredded coconut, which is simply delicious! olan: Diced pumpkin and red chickpeas cooked with fine coconut milk sauce
Tasty: tall which are fried plantain slices, papadam are wafers made from black gram flour, Ginger Pickle.
The feast finally ends by serving desserts such as Payasam gold pazham. Also kaalanwhich has buttermilk seasoned with ginger, turmeric, and green chilies.
If you are still hungry and want to know more about Kerala cuisine, then these famous late night snacks are not to be missed. These snacks are the true essence of Kerala’s diversity.
sukhiyan it is one of the traditional Kerala snacks that is available at all the tea stalls. It consists of moong dal and jaggery, Vattappam, Kozhukatta This is a sweet snack specially made during Easter, it is a ball of dough filled with grated coconut and jaggery. For banana lovers there are a variety of snacks that Kerala offers like unnakkai (sweet banana and coconut sandwich), mulaku bajji (fried banana), unniappam (fried sandwich made from rice flour, bananas and jaggery), Ethakka Varattiyathu (fried plantain fries), Avalosa/ Avilosa Podi.
If you are tired of eating vegetarian food, Kerala is the place to go for non-vegetarian food that not only uses chicken and meat but also has a diverse collection of seafood. Malabar and Mappila kitchens offer the best non-vegetarian dishes including 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 relish 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 every restaurant in Kerala.