The best part of traveling in Kerala is that one never has to eat the same typical food everywhere. It can tempt your taste buds in all regions of Kerala as each district has its own delicious and sumptuous delicacies that should not be missed at all costs. Almost all dishes are made up of rice followed by coconut and tapioca, while spices add luscious flavors to food that is scrumptious. The food is cooked only in coconut oil and served mainly on banana leaves. Here people can eat boiled rice which is called Choru in the native language, which is believed to be very nutritious.
Breakfast is the most important part of Kerala cuisine, which has tasty but appetizing dishes. A healthy breakfast usually consists of the following dishes:
The world famous –Idlis, Dosas Y Medu wada served with traditional Sambar and coconut chutney,
Puttu (a steamed dish containing rice flour and grated coconut),
Appam / Palappam,
Vattayappam (steamed rice cake made from rice flour and coconut milk),
Ari pathiri (fine roti rice)
Kadala curry (made up of black chickpeas)
Idiyappam (string hoppers made from rice flour, salt and water that is served with curries such as potato, egg, fish or meat and coconut chutney)
Keralites lunch is very elaborate and extravagant and is called Sadya. It is a traditional vegetarian meal served on a banana leaf. It has boiled rice served with curries, side dishes, salty, pickles, and desserts.
Curry: Parippu, a liquid curry composed of small gram and butter, Sambar, Rasam, Kottucurry made up of diced potatoes mixed with onions and green chilies.
Fittings: Aviyal is a mixture of vegetables, coconut paste and green chillies that is seasoned with a tablespoon of coconut oil and curry leaves that are added after the Aviyal is off the stove. Thoran It consists of a string of chopped beans, cabbage, radish or grams. The spice is added with red chili peppers and the sweet flavor with grated coconut, which is just delicious! Olan: Dice of pumpkin and red grams cooked with a fine sauce of coconut milk
Tapas: Upperi which are fried banana slices, Pappadam they are wafers made from black chickpea flour, Ginger pickle.
The party finally ends up serving desserts like Payasam gold Pazham. too Kaalan, which 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 out on these famous late night snacks. These snacks are the true essence of Kerala’s diversity.
Sukhiyan It is one of the traditional Kerala snacks that is available at all tea stalls. It is made of moong dal and jaggery, Vattappam, Kozhukatta This is a sweet sandwich specially made during Easter, it is a dough ball filled with grated coconut and brown sugar. For banana lovers, there are a variety of snacks that Kerala offers such as Unnakkai (sweet banana and coconut sandwich), Mulaku bajji (fried banana), Unniappam (fried sandwich made from rice flour, bananas and brown sugar), Ethakka Varattiyathu (banana fries), Avalose / Avilose Podi.
If you are tired of eating vegetarian food, Kerala is the ideal place to eat non-vegetarian food that not only uses chicken and meat but also has a diverse collection of seafood. The 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 (flat bread). The two districts that serve Malabar and Mappila cuisines are Kozhikode and Thalassery, it is worth visiting these two places to savor heavenly dishes.
Meen Pollichathu It is a dish that belongs to the central part of Kerala. It is prepared by seasoning the fish with various spices, then wrapped in a banana leaf and cooked. This special delicacy is available in every restaurant in Kerala.