Kerala, God’s own country… obviously has to have some divine cuisines too.Kerala moves away from the regular food and provides exotic food.Another noticeable fact about Kerala cooking is, most meal are less of oil and more healthy in making.And in Kerala cooking only coconut oil is used which is proved to benefit the human body in more than one way. Except for certain communities in Kerala, people eat both vegetarian and non-vegetarian food.Hence, one gets a large variety to choose from.
In any conversation on Kerala food Avial comes on top. A purely vegetarian preparation contains lots of vegetables. Then comes a truly exotic food made from Raw Banana called as Kaaye curry; and then there is the Vellarika (Big cucumber), Sambar.Mostly the gravy like curry made out of masala and coconut paste.In the non-vegetarian section there is Meen vevichathu (Spicy Fish curry), Fish Moily (Fish stew), Nyand curry (Crab curry).All this curry items are served with rice.
After the above list of main course meal of Kerala cuisines, dessert comes next.Payasam (Made from milk, jaggery and gram or vermicilli), Appam (Pancake made out of Rice soaked overnight).For snacks Banana chips are the most loved all over the country not just in Kerala.Idli with chutney or sambar is one more of the healthy snack contributed by Kerala to the nation.Keralites are more of a rice-eater and rice in different forms are included in their sweet dishes and snacks too.