Eat your heart out while in Kerala!

Eat your heart out while in Kerala! 

Want to taste the authentic and variety dishes in Kerala? Kerala tour packages offer you the best destinations where you can enjoy most of Kerala’s authentic food too. Kerala is abundantly rich in forest wealth, beaches, and backwaters. There are many colorful parks, shopping arcades, museums and other man-made attractions that equally attract people. Kerala’s rich traditions and culture are showcased in the colorful festivals that are widely celebrated along with music, dance and feasts. The exotic spices, coastal coconuts, seasonal fruits, and seafood make up for some of the most exotic flavors of the South.

Kerala’s authentic flavors are a favorite among all the tourists who visit this God’s Own Country on Kerala tourism packages. The cuisine has a special connection with the history, culture and location within the state. Each and every dish is unique and differs from location to location but improves in taste with each variation.  On your trip to Kerala, you get to try all the varieties of the dishes well-known in the state. The multitude of vegetarian and nonvegetarian dishes is very popular among the tourists. Most of the dishes are prepared using vegetables, fish, poultry, meat and native spices. Being the coastal area, marine food is very common in the dishes and quite popular among the locals. The fishes differ from region to region. The freshwater fishes are abundantly available in the regions where they have many backwaters. Coconut is abundantly available and used in the dishes served. Some dishes are made using the plantain leaf which brings in a unique and striking flavor to the dish. The Karimeen pollichathu (fish wrapped in banana leaf and toasted in the pan with mixed spices), Ada which is a sweet dish made out of rice flour and jaggery etc are a few varieties cooked in a banana leaf.

Kerala’s Sadya – The invigorating feast with 25 varieties of dishes and 3 Payasams

 

When you hear about Kerala, the first thing that comes to your mind will be a grand feast called Sadya which is served on a banana leaf with a lot of variety dishes spread out religiously. Sadya is a main vegetarian feast that is served on many of the functions and festivals in Kerala. The Sadya has many curries with a different taste that ignites the taste buds. The commonly used ingredients that add to the taste of the cuisine include black pepper, tamarind, red chilies, mustard seeds, curry leaves, coconut and asafetida which are abundantly used in the curries. Sadya is served to the tourists visiting Kerala on their Kerala packages. The variety of dishes served are Sambar, Aviyal, Stew, Kalan, Olan, Thoran, Parippu, Pappad, Payasam (kheer), Pickles, Plantain chips and much more. Each and every dish served has a different taste, so overall it satisfies every nook and corner of your mouth. Sadya will fill your stomach without a doubt and your mind too with its delicious flavors. All these varieties go along with the boiled rice served on the banana leaf. It has to be enjoyed eaten with the hand. The elders say there’s an order in which the dishes are to be served and eaten which will make sure every grain of rice you eat will be completely digested without fail. Sadya’s used to be occasional earlier. But with tourists visiting the state all round the year, most of the hotels and restaurants serve a Sadya on most of the days with the variety of dishes.

Malabar Cuisine – Exotic, Royal, and Flavorful

The Malabar side of Kerala has again different varieties served on their platter. Malabar region is famous for their non-vegetarian pick. The Malabar Biriyanis are famous among the tourists as well as the natives. Kallumakaya or Mussels are one among the dishes loved by the people on their Kerala holiday packages. Other varieties that can be tasted in the Malabar side of Kerala include Irachipathiri, Malabar duck roast, Malabar lamb curry, Beef Kurumulakitathu(with pepper), Unnakya, Wayanad chicken curry, Kozhi varutharachathu (chicken served in the fried coconut blend with masala). All these varieties are mouthwatering and invite everyone's interests. These varieties widely use black and white peppers other than cloves, bay leaves, cardamom, cinnamon cumin and nutmeg. Rice varieties like chicken biriyani, mutton biriyani, and prawns biriyani are the most popular dishes served in the feasts for weddings and festivals in the Malabar region.

The Quintessential Breakfast varieties

Kerala’s breakfast cuisine also presents you with many dishes that are healthy and indeed taste and one of a kind. The common breakfast dishes includes idli, dosa served with coconut chutney, appam and stew, appam and kadala curry (black chana), puttu-kadala, appam mutton stew, appam and chicken curry, Kallappam, Idiyappam, and pathiri. You have to try these filling and healthy breakfast dishes while you are here and I can bet you will fall in love with the place! On your Kerala tour packages from Mumbai, enjoy the authentic Kerala style breakfast.

Variety of Seafood

 

The seafood is the most common dish you would love to eat from the north to the south of Kerala. The specialty seafood varieties here have a beautiful blend of gravy and flavors made of coconut, spices and tamarind. The fish curry is prepared using mango or Kokum that adds a special flavor to the fish curry. During the season of mango, the people of Kerala use mango or else Kokum. Prawns and Karimeen are the common fishes used in the dishes. The Karimeen Pollichathu is a well-known dish served on boat cruises in the most popular Kerala tour packages from Delhi. Fish molly is another dish famous among the Christian community in Kerala. Arikadukka, a spicy seafood delicacy made of Kallumakkaya (mussels) is a must-try meal. On your Kerala trip, while visiting the beaches, you can find many people drying prawns in the sun. This becomes the sundried prawns! A side dish prepared with it called the unakka chemmeen (or dried prawn) is a common dish for the people of Kerala.

Mouth-watering pickles – The best ways to preserve seasonal produce

 

No food is complete without a pickle in the platter. A wide variety of pickles are made in Kerala. A variety of Mango, lime, dates, prawns, garlic, fish pickles and vegetable pickles are made in Kerala. The people of Kerala surely relish the spicy taste of hot pickles. The mango pickles are the popular ones which are made in many different ways. Pickles of tender mango, sliced mango, sun-dried mango and much more are prepared and served in most of the households even now. A huge airtight ceramic container called the Bharani is used to preserve these pickles. In olden days, the pickles were reserved for the monsoon times, when you don’t get much of the vegetables due to heavy rain. You can find the Granny’s Uppumanga Bharani (tender mangoes in brine) in a majority of the households and everyone enjoys and savors the taste. On your Kerala tour, you can find many vendors with huge vessels filled with a variety of pickle on the beaches and roadsides. Don’t have them, though, as they may not be as healthy.

Snacks and Savories

Snacks are something everybody likes to munch on in their free time. The common snacks prepared in Kerala which is quite popular are the Plantain chips, Sharkara Varattiyathu, Pazham pori, Vattayappam, Sughiyan, Kottayam churuttu, jack fruit fry, ada etc. The plantain chips are popular among all the people visiting on Kerala tours. During the Jackfruit season, every shop is loaded with jackfruit chips, another variety that gives you another delicacy to enjoy. The Pazhampori (banana fritters) served in the evenings are a common tea time snack. In fact, Kerala’s varieties of chips are very popular among the tourists. You will find fresh chips made of Potato, Yam, Tapioca, slightly ripe bananas, Bitter guard and a host of other fruits and vegetables in Kerala.  

Sweets and Desserts - A celebration of the flavors 

 

The food feasts are always ended with the sweet satisfying the sweet tooth of anyone. Again you will be presented with many variations to taste. Payasam includes milk, jaggery, ghee and fried cashews or coconuts that give you a chance to enjoy the most of Kerala cuisine on your Kerala travel. Ada Pradhaman, Palada Pradhaman, Pal Payasam and Ney Payasam are the most famous desserts served for the feasts. The Ada is made of rice and the Payasam can be made of coconut milk and jaggery or with milk and sugar. Palada Pradhaman is considered the king of the feasts! Pal payasam is usually seen served in temples. On your Kerala honeymoon packages in Allepey, you can pay a visit to the Ambalappuzha Krishna temple and enjoy the famous pal payasam offered as a blessing.

The never ending array of delicacies

Other than these authentic dishes served, there are many dishes which one can try out in their travel. Kappa (tapioca) and fish curry, freshwater fishes like natholi fry, kappa biriyani etc are few of the other dishes you must try on your honeymoon packages in Kerala. Kerala has many bakeries and hotels that serve you some of the most delicious traditional dishes. It’s a true bliss to know more about the Kerala cuisine when you go to interior parts of Kerala, where the tribals use some secret spices that add a taste that you surely will not forget.

One must try at least a few of these dishes. It a true saying that when in Rome be like a Roman, hence tasting these authentic Kerala dishes and wearing the traditional Kerala costumes add color to your honeymoon packages and family holidays.