The Yummylicious Food you get in Kerala

Kerala is truly a paradise for a foodie. The cuisine of Kerala has a special link to the culture, tradition and the geographical location of the place. You will find ample reasons to indulge in the vegetarian and non-vegetarian dishes as you enjoy your delicious Kerala tour packages. The dishes are prepared using fish, poultry, red meat and various vegetables accompanied by the typical boiled red rice that goes well with the platter. Kerala is a land of spices and hence, exotic spices are widely used in their cuisine that gives a magical aroma to the dish.

Mostly, all the dishes contain curry leaves, mustard seeds, tamarind, chillies, and asafoetida. The food is served on a banana leaf and a majority of the dishes contain coconut. Being the coastal region, seafood is a common diet in the region which you can try during your Kerala tourism packages focused on ethnic Kerala delicacies. Non-vegetarian meals include chicken, mutton and beef that are mostly served in the Malabar where meat is served as a common dish. Kerala has a variety cuisine ranging from a simple kanji (porridge) to a grand Sadya or the feast which has innumerable dishes served.

Rice Puttu with Gram curry 

A typical breakfast in Kerala consists of idli, dosa, puttu (steamed rice cake), idyappam, appam or upma served with different side dishes, particularly coconut chutney. Idli and Dosa are the most preferred breakfast in Kerala packages by most of the people and kids. They are served with the chutney made with coconut, tomato chutney, onion chutney or sambar. Puttu and idyappam are made with rice flour and both are oil-free healthy dishes. Puttu is typically made of rice flour and steamed in a long hollow bamboo or metal cylinder or in a hemisphere-shaped coconut shell with coconut layered in between. It is best served with banana or black chana curry with fried coconut gravy. Puttu can be made of wheat and corn flours too and they taste very good in those forms also. 

Idiyappam and coconut milk curry 

Idiyappam is made with rice flour in the shape of noodles. It is also called Noolappam usually served with sweet coconut milk curry.

Appam and Stew

Appam is made by soaking rice for some hours and ground with coconut and kept for fermentation and cooked in a specifically shaped vessel and served with vegetable stew, egg curry or duck curry savored with coconut milk. Though all these are made of rice, they are all healthy and filling breakfast for Kerala holiday packages in luxurious way.

Lunch in Kerala offers a wide range of dishes. Sadya is the main course of Kerala. It usually consists of vegetarian dishes which vary from place to place. The dishes have the mix of sweet, spicy and tangy tastes. Sadya is the traditional feast served for marriage functions, special occasions, and festivities. The sadya has sambar, errisery, aviyal, parippu, kalan, olan, stew, pachadi, kichadi, thoran, puli inji, mango pickle or lemon pickle, plantain chips etc. and Payasam that is served in the end. Avial is a mixed vegetable curry with a blend of coconut and green chillies. Kalan, Pachadi and Kichadi are yogurt-based curries. Plantain chips are a favorite snack item for everyone on a flavorful Kerala tour packages from Mumbai.

Malabar Biriyani 

Malabar Biriyani is a famous dish in northern Kerala. Biriyani is a special cuisine of Malabar. They are mostly served as a special dish in feasts as well as a simple lunch. Usually, Chicken is the main ingredient in Biriyani or else mutton and egg or even fish are used. Kallummkaya or green mussel is also one of the common dishes in Malabar. 

Pathiri and Curry 

Pathiri and chicken curry is also a popular dish in Northern Kerala. Fish is an important aspect of a meal in Kerala.

Fish Molly 

Fish molly prepared in coconut milk is a favorite Christian delicacy you must try on your Kerala tour packages from Delhi. Fish curry prepared using brindle berry or even fresh tender mango is a perfect curry to eat with rice. You will find fish curry and fish fry in the daily menu of most of the houses in the coastal regions in Kerala.

Kerala Chemeen Curry

 Kerala prawn curry is also a signature dish of Kerala. It is a blend of fenugreek, black mustard, fennel seed, coconut milk and green chillies. This dish gas a special ingredient called the ‘kodampuli’ or pot tamarind or brindle berry, which adds to the flavour of the fish curry. You must try this during your Kerala trip in search of tasty food and you will become a fan of this dish.

Karimeen Pollichathu 

 Rice and Karimeen pollichathu is one of the favourite combinations of the people of Kerala and even among the tourists. Karimeen or pearl spot fish marinated with savoured spices and coconut milk, wrapped in a banana leaf and steamed is served with red boiled rice.

Kappa and Fish Curry 

 Kappa (tapioca) and fish curry are also served as a special dish on houseboats for the tourists on Kerala tour. Karimeen is usually found in the fresh waters of Alleppey and Kollam and hence, are mainly served as a dish in boat houses where one can get fresh catch right from the backwaters.

Kozhikode Halwa 

Kozhikode halwa is a popular sweet in Kerala and it comes in all the beautiful colors like green, red, black, yellow, orange etc. It is one of the most popular sweets in the Malabar area in the streets. 

Payasam - ada pradhaman 

Parippu Payasam 

Payasams are served along with the Sadya for major occasions like marriages and festivals. A variety of payasams includes palada pradhaman, palapayasam, ada pradhaman, jackfruit payasam, ney payasam, pazham payasam (banana), parippu payasam, godambu(wheat) payasam etc. They taste so amazing that you will fall in love with the place during your Kerala tours.

Pazhampori 

 

1 metre Kerala style tea  

Pazham pori or banana fritters are sweet banana dish, parippu vada (fried lentil patty), uzhunnu (urad) vada, ulli vada etc are some other snacks available in Kerala served with tea and coffee.

Porotta and Beef Curry 

Porotta and beef curry are considered the unofficial dish of Kerala, as most people prefer to have it as dinner or lunch. Kerala parotta is different from the north Indian paratha. It is made purely with maida and is very common in most parts of Kerala, as you can see it any hotels on the street. You can try this out during your Kerala travel at the good restaurants where they serve wheat parotta with chicken curry or beef fry. Tapioca or kappa is one of the popular choices of the people of Kerala. The kappa is cooked with shallots, red chillies and garlic and is served with fish curry. This is a typical native dish and is only available in very few restaurants.

Pani Poori 

Vada Pav

You can even have steamed and seasoned tapioca with crushed green chilli, garlic and shallots and it will taste simple and yummy. It goes well with even with dosa, rice and idli too. With many migrations from other parts of India settling in Kerala, even the cuisine is getting a blend of the north Indian style. Nowadays, we can spot even Pani puris and vada pav in the streets of Kerala. Even the common household in Kerala prepare chappati and poori which were typical north Indian cuisine. Though a little rare to find in the hill stations where people go for Kerala honeymoon packages, chappathi has become a regular dinner dish in here. Even though all these have changed, the common Kerala food is forever healthy and tasty. Tourists coming on holiday packages enjoy the famous cuisine of Kerala.

Healthy Kerala dish  

Tender Coconut 

With Organic food getting popular in the cities of Kerala, there are organic restaurants where only organic food is prepared and served that too without any preservatives. You can eat fresh, simple and tasty food from these restaurants during your honeymoon packages in Kerala with special honeymoon dishes. It will keep you light and will not upset your stomach. You will get typical Kerala style food here, unadulterated.

Healthy Ayurvedic Food 

 Ayurveda is practiced widely throughout Kerala and hence, you will find some spice and herb shops in the villages from where you can buy some authentic herbs and spices that help you make healthy food and give it a surprising twist in taste too.

Couples dining with Kerala food 

Black pepper, turmeric, cloves, green cardamom, nutmeg etc are cultivated in the hill stations of Kerala that has fertile soil as well as a pleasant climate that make them the preferred destinations for healthy honeymoon packages with the goodness of Ayurveda also. I would suggest that you always order fresh food from the local specialty restaurants and ask the restaurant manager what they would suggest as the local delicacy. It works best to let you taste the best food of one region.

Ayurvedic Massage 

If you are travelling in a group, let each person order a different food and everyone can try everything that has been ordered. This way, you will all be able to taste a variety of dishes without feeling guilty of consuming so much of calories too! After all, you only tasted the food, never ate it. You have to come prepared to gain some weight during your Kerala holiday packages as the food here truly awesome, full of aromatic spices that invigorates your taste buds and  flavorful.

Full set to taste the authentic Kerala food