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Tastes of Kerala


Kerala has a distinctive cuisine, very unusual and different from the rest of India. Cooking in Kerala is all about discoveries, aromas and colors. Kerala cuisine is very hot and spicy and offers several gastronomic opportunities to those willing to experiment with the local cuisine. Rice, or rather unpolished rice, is the main food of the Keralite.

Aside from the boiled product eaten as a staple, powdered into flour, it is used to make a wide range of snacks and breakfast like puttu, the round spongy vattayappam, the lacy edged palappam, the sweet unniyappam, the idiyappam that looks like fine noodles, pathiri etc. The stew is a delicious dish, vastly popular among Syrian Christians. The traditional Kerala meal is served on a plantain leaf with rice as the staple cereal and dishes like thoran, kalan, pachadi, olan, avial etc. complete the Kerala's unique 'sadya'. In the cuisine of northern Kerala, biriyani has a special place.

Seafood and beef are available in plenty. Fruit based dishes also form part of Kerala cuisine. Fruits common in Kerala, such as jackfruit, pineapple, mangoes, and an endless variety of plantain are prepared for consumption with rice and other dishes.

 

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