Breakfast @ Kerala

Puttu

Puttu is Kerala’s all the time favourite breakfast and it occupies a vip position in Authentic Kerala Cuisine menu.This steam cooked rice cake with shredded coconut, is a healthy alternative to modern junk foods .From the breakfast,Puttu has come a long way to be a round-the-clock favorite.It is indeed a nostalgic meal for us . It is usually served with kadala(Black Chana), Mutton stew etc.

Appam

Appam is the fermented rice pancake a fermented rice pancake, is a specialty of the South Indian coastal state of Kerala. Not only in India, it is popular in Sri Lanka and other coastal countries. Christian communities make Appam on the special occasions. Often served with coconut flavored vegetable stew, egg curry and Non - veg dishes like Duck, Chicken, Mutton curries.




Sadya (Lunch)
A typical Kerala feast, referred to as sadya, is spread out temptingly on a clean green banana leaf. And the food is to be eaten with the fingers. Even the dessert, payasam, that tastes like rice pudding, is served on the leafy plate.

The culinary efforts of the different communities of Kerala come out in distinctly different dishes of great variety. While Hindus specialise in delicious vegetarian food such as sambar, rasam, olan, kaalan, pachadi, kichadi, aviyal, thoran and so on.

The Muslims and Christians excel in non vegetarian cuisine. The pathiri, a sort of pancake made of rice flour, and biriyani which is a mouthwatering dish of rice cooked along with meat, onions, chillies and other spices are Muslim culinary delights. Christians have interesting recipes to make an array of fish dishes such as meen pollichathu, fish molee and so on. Christian cookery specially caters to people with a sweet tooth – crunchy kozhalappam, achappam, cheeda, churuttu etc.

Almost every dish prepared in Kerala has coconut and spices added to it – spices such as cinnamon, cardamom, ginger, cloves, garlic, cumin, coriander, turmeric etc. Spices are used in Kerala to tone up the system the way wines aid the digestion of western cuisine. The juice of tender coconut – ‘world’s safest natural soft drink’ – is a refreshing nutritious thirst quencher. The staple food of the masses is rice. Kerala cuisine also has a medley of pickles and chutneys. And the crunchy papadams, banana chips and jack chips can give french fries a run for their money any day.

Karimeen (Black spotted pomfret)