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Tender coconut water is a refreshing nutritious thirst quencher. The
crunchy papadam, banana and jackfruit chips can give french-fries a run
for their money any day.
Kerala
cuisine is a combination of Vegetables, meats and seafood flavoured with a
varie ty of spices. Seafood's are main diet of Coastal
Kerala.
Whereas Vegetable is the main diet in plains of Kerala and Meat is the
main course among tribal and northern Kerala.
`Sadya'
- Kerala feast
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 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. Some of the delicious are: -
Rice
While Plain Steamed rice is usually taken with dishes in Sadya
(Vegetarian), it is the basic ingredient. Biryanis (in Non vegetarian
meals of the Arabic tradition).
Avil
Combination of vegetables like pumpkin, drumstick, potato, chilly etc and
coconut sauce, it is a very popular side dish. Even mango, jackfruit and
cashew nuts are included in Avil.
Thoren
Vegetables like Cabbage, Coconut, and Green chilly and mustard seed are
either fried or steamed with spices like turmeric. Sometimes green papaya
is used.
Sambar
It is made out of drumstick, tomato, potato, onion etc mixed with turmeric
powder, chilly powder, coriander seeds and many more spices.
Olen
Beans and gourds mixed with several spices like chilly powder.
Kaalen
Made using Banana and curd mixed with coconut paste and green chilly.
Rasam
Rasam is a best for digestion. It is similar to a clear broth; Rasam may
be flavoured tamarind, lemon, tomato, lentils and/or pepper.
Pachadi
Main ingredients are Pumpkin, Coconut milk and curd with green chilly. A
pleasing finish to the meal.
Paayasam
Sugared rice or noodles, served as a sweet.
Snacks
Popular snacks include banana chips, yam crisps, Tapioca chips deep-fried
with chilly powder. .
Sweets
There's no shortage of sweets in Kerala. Jaggery is often used as a
sweetener. It can be boiled and made into paste form. It can be used as a
sweet sauce with curd or fruit. Milk rice, coconut rice, or vermicelli
sweetened with jaggery is common dessert.
Avalose is a rice-based sweet rolled into a ball with jaggery. Unniappam
is pulped jackfruit, mixed with rice flour and jaggery, wrapped in a leaf
and steamed.
Prathaman is lentils boiled with coconut, cardamom and ginger. Jaggery and
cashew nuts are also added. Halwa is made from bananas.
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Breakfast
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 Aappam
is a Kerala favourite and there are many varieties. For breakfast this
pancake is usually made from a rice flour and toddy batter. It has a
thick, spongy center and very fine lacy outer section. It's usually taken
with spiced sauce, sometimes with fruit.
Puttu is another popular breakfast dish. It is made from rice flour
dough combined with shredded coconut steamed in a bamboo stick. It is
served with banana or plain with sugar.
Idi-appam is rice noodles usually served with coconut milk but they
may also accompany meat dishes.
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