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Indian Food : South Indian - Kerala

In the Kerala kitchens, be it of any of the various communities living there, simple methods and the locally available foodstuff are used to dish out mouthwatering delicacies. Even the ordinary tapioca root, for example, becomes a main course when boiled and sautéed with coconut and spices, a snack when sliced fine, salted and fried, and a sweet dish when steamed with coconut and jaggery.

The essential ingredient of the daily diet is rice.Kerala is noted for its variety of pancakes and steamed rice cakes made from pounded rice. Though the same ingredients are used all over the state, each of the communities has its own specialties.

The typical Kerala feast served on a banana leaf, is a sumptuous spread of rice and more than 14 vegetable dishes, topped with `payasam', the delicious sweet dessert cooked in milk.

Kerala also has it's own fermented beverages -the famous kallu or (toddy) and patta charayam (arrack). Arrack is extremely intoxicating and is usually consumed with spicy pickles and boiled eggs (patta and mutta). Some of the delicious are: -

Vegetarian Dishes:

1. Mathanga
2. Erissery
3. Kalan
4. Olan
5. Parippu Curry
6. Cabbage Thoran
7. Pachadi
8. Kichadi
9. Kootucurry
10. Manga Curry
11. Kadala Curry
12. Kootu Curry
13. Pulicherry

Non-Vegetarian Dishes :

1. Meen Peera Pattichathu
2. Meen Tilappichathu
3. Dry Prawn Chutney
4. Meen Mulakuchar
5. Prawn Mappas
6. Fish Mollee
7. Fish Patichathu
8. Karimeen Pollichathu
9. Meat Ularthu

Sweet Dishes :

1. Unniappam
2. Sarkarapuratty
3. Kozhukatta

South Indian Food
	Tamil Nadu		Andhra Pradesh
	Kerala		Karnadaka