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Thoren
Vegetables like Cabbage, Coconut, and Green chilly and mustard seed are
either fried or steamed with spices like turmeric. Sometimes green papaya
is used.
Sambar
It is made out of drumstick, tomato, potato, onion etc mixed with turmeric
powder, chilly powder, coriander seeds and many more spices.
Olen
Beans and gourds mixed with several spices like chilly powder.
Kaalen
Made using Banana and curd mixed with coconut paste and green chilly.
Rasam
Rasam is a best for digestion. It is similar to a clear broth; Rasam may
be flavoured tamarind, lemon, tomato, lentils and/or pepper.
Pachadi
Main ingredients are Pumpkin, Coconut milk and curd with green chilly. A
pleasing finish to the meal.
Paayasam
Sugared rice or noodles, served as a sweet.
Snacks
Popular snacks include banana chips, yam crisps, Tapioca chips deep-fried
with chilly powder. .
Sweets
There's no shortage of sweets in Kerala. Jaggery is often used as a
sweetener. It can be boiled and made into paste form. It can be used as a
sweet sauce with curd or fruit. Milk rice, coconut rice, or vermicelli
sweetened with jaggery is common dessert.
Avalose is a rice-based sweet rolled into a ball with jaggery. Unniappam
is pulped jackfruit, mixed with rice flour and jaggery, wrapped in a leaf
and steamed.
Prathaman is lentils boiled with coconut, cardamom and ginger. Jaggery and
cashew nuts are also added. Halwa is made from bananas.
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Breakfast
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Aappam
is a Kerala favourite and there are many varieties. For breakfast this
pancake is usually made from a rice flour and toddy batter. It has a
thick, spongy center and very fine lacy outer section. It's usually taken
with spiced sauce, sometimes with fruit.
Puttu is another popular breakfast dish. It is made from rice
flour dough combined with shredded coconut steamed in a bamboo stick. It
is served with banana or plain with sugar.
Idi-appam is rice noodles usually served with coconut milk but
they may also accompany meat dishes.
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