kerala cuisine

Kerala is known worldwide as a wonderful tourist destination. The backwaters, beaches and hill stations of Kerala are known for their calm and serenity, which provide a relaxing holiday in God's Own Country. Kerala Backwater offers tours to Kerala, India, that showcase the best of Kerala. One of Kerala's popular attractions is its delicious Kerala cuisine.

Kerala is a coastal state, it is a covered with emerald green paddy fields and has plantations where spices that have been exported worldwide for centuries, are grown. Add to this mixture a touch a coconut and a bunch of bananas and you're halfway to a recipe for Kerala cuisine, which you can try on Kerala Backwater tours.

The cuisine of Kerala is characterized by the use of coconut, either chopped or grated and used as garnishing, coconut milk or paste is used to thicken gravies and coconut oil is used for cooking. Breakfast specialties of the cuisine of Kerala are usually made from ground rice and pulses that are steamed or fried in different ways. "Puttu", a dish of steamed rice powder is a popular breakfast. Garnished with coconut and eaten with stew, curry, or bananas, Puttu is best eaten by hand, though it can be eaten with a spoon. Traditional south Indian specialties, such as dosas, idlis, sambhar and uttapam are part of the breakfast cuisine of Kerala, which you can enjoy, when you travel on Kerala tours with Kerala Backwater.