Delightful Cuisine- A trigger to your taste buds

Sherida63 · Newbie Joined: Sep 15, 2007 Posts: 1

The must thing one must experience during Kerala Tourism is the cuisine of Kerala as it is very unique in its taste but at the same time is a treat to the taste buds.

Kerala cuisine is never complete without sea food and coconut. Almost every dish will have coconut paste in it. The oil used for cooking is also coconut oil. Unlike rest of India, beef is also popular in Kerala. It is always best to stick to sea food as it is been rated as one of the best.

One of the favorite for any connoisseur of food would be the sadhya served especially during festive occasion in a plantain leaf.

Onam Sadhya

It can have up to 24 items served in it. It usually have oolan (a dish of pumpkin), avial(an assorted mix of all vegetable), injipulee (ginger & tamarind), kaalan (made of yam and yogurt), thoran (deep fried beans sprinkled with grated coconut) etc. It includes payasam, a sweet dish made of jaggery or sugar along with rice, cereals, fruits etc.

Kerala cuisine varies with the regions. The southernmost parts serve richest sadya, the 'real' traditional one. Mid-Kerala cuisine is rich with its non-veg additions. In Northern Kerala cuisine, you can see the influence of Arabian cuisine. Sea food is available all over. In regions like Alleppey, Cherthala etc., you will get the riches of inland waterbodies which includes Karimeen, Prawn, Shrimps, Kanava[Squid], and many other delicacies combined with other stuff like 'Kappa'[Tapioca] etc.

The road connecting Alappuzha to Changanasery known as AC Road is a wonderful place for foodies as you will see so many 'Toddy Shops' which serve fresh catch of the day from the nearby water body cooked deliciously along with Toddy, a type of liquor obtained from coconut/palm trees which is sour-sweet in taste. You will love the ambience, when you are sitting in a toddy shop in the middle of a water logged green field nibbling on spicy fish and sipping toddy. Wow!