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| The cuisine of the southern most
Indian state of Kerala reflects the fact that it's the most
lush and fertile of all the Indian states in its great variety.
Kerala offers to the food lover a variety of delicacies from
the bland rice cakes to the tangy meat curries. Kerala cuisine
is as vast as it is simple and even the everyday meal is quite
elaborate. |
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| Contemplating the true aspects of
keralian culture, its cuisine has also been influenced by numerous
its unique tradition. Kerala cuisine encompasses a stimulating
combination of vegetables, meats and seafood flavored with a
variety of spices and almost always cooked in coconut milk.
Spices are used in Kerala to tone up the system and act as an
aid to the digestion. |
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| The unusual cuisine of Kerala brings
to the fore the culinary expertise of the people of Kerala.
Producing some of the tastiest foods on earth, the people of
Kerala are gourmets with a difference. The cuisine is very hot
and spicy and offers several gastronomic opportunities. The
food is generally fresh, aromatic and flavored. Keralites are
mostly fish-and-rice eating people. |
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| One can't imagine Kerala food without
chilies, curry leaf, mustard seed, tamarind and asafoetida.
Just a pinchful of tamarind can substitute tomatoes, but there
is no real substitute for curry leaf. Since time immemorial,
coconut has been an integral part of the cuisine of Kerala.
These people put to good use whatever the land offers and the
result comes out as a marvellous cuisines. |
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| 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
etc. |
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| The Muslims and Christians excel
in non vegetarian cuisine. The pathiri, a sort of pancake made
of rice flour, and biriyani which is 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.
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| A typical Kerala breakfast may be
puttu, which is rice powder and grated coconut steam-cooked
together, idli and sambar, dosai and chutney, idiappam (string
hoppers), or the most delicious of them all, the appam, a kind
of pan cake made of rice flour fermented with a small amount
of toddy (fermented sap of the coconut palm) which is circular
in shape, rather like a flying saucer, edged with a crisp lacy
frill. It is eaten with chicken or vegetable stew. |
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| 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. |
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| Cookery sessions can be incorporated
into your holiday where you can learn how to prepare traditional
Keralan dishes. The sessions are fun and easy to follow. You
will cook in a typical Keralan kitchen under the guidance of
an experienced and expert cook. Serve your delicious completed
meal under the stars in the time-honoured Keralan way - on a
banana leaf! |
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