Like its Culture, Kerala cuisine has also been influenced by various traditions. A cuisine enriched with exotic tropical fruits, meats, vegetables, cereals, seafood and herbs and garnished with the distinctive aroma of pepper, cardamom and chillies. Almost all type of foods in Kerala are flavored with spices and cooked in sweet coconut milk. Be it vegetarians or non-vegetarians spices are generously used to enhance the taste of the food and they also help in digestion. The mouth-watering cuisine of Kerala is distinctive in its taste and quite different from the rest of India. Kerala cuisine is very hot and spicy and offers you many opportunities for gastronomical experiments.
Breakfasts of Kerala
Kerala is known for its delicious and nutritional breakfasts. Puttu, Kadala Curry, Appam, Chicken Stew, Iddiappam and vegetable stew are favorite items for breakfast in Kerala.
Puttu is made out of rice flour with plenty of coconut pieces. Cylindrical in shape, it is served with kadala curry and some times fish curry.
Appam are soft centered pancakes made out of rice and coconut milk. Appam is usually served with the Kerala chicken stew and sometimes with mutton stew.
Iddiappams are very similar to Appams, made with rice flour. The noodle like rice cake dish is usually served with sweet coconut milk or vegetable stew.
Other special items of Kerala cuisine are Sadya, Karimeen Pollichathu, Fish Moilee, Malabari Biryani, kallu (toddy) and patta charayam. Among them Sadya and Malabari Biryani are very popular among tourists and locals.
Sadya is a very delicious feast comprising as many as 40 vegetarian dishes and is served on a plantain leaf mostly during marriages and festivals. Fish Moilee is a fish item cooked in coconut milk with lot of spices. Malabari Biriyani is one of the most enjoyed delicious food item of Kerala. Fried rice is mixed with meat, chicken, fish or prawn and topped with a variety of hot spices.
Other South Indian dishes such as Dosa and Idly are also common in Kerala. Besides, a variety of seafood such as lobsters, prawns, crabs to name a few with are cooked and served with exotic spices. Welcome to Kerala and enjoy the delicious and mouth watering cuisine of Kerala and the sweet and refreshing coconut water.
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