The food of Kerala
11 dishes tied to Kerala, India: born there, or made its own.
Palm wineVegan
🇳🇬 Nigeria and 5 moreA lightly alcoholic drink made by fermenting the sap of palm trees
Drink
SadyaVegetarianസദ്യ
🇮🇳 IndiaA festive vegetarian feast from Kerala, served on a banana leaf
Main dish, Lunch
AppamVeganஅப்பம்
🇮🇳 India and 1 moreFermented rice and coconut milk pancake from South India and Sri Lanka
Bread, Breakfast, Dinner
Banana chipVegan
🇵🇭 Philippines and 4 moreCrispy slices of banana, fried or dried, eaten as a snack or sweet
Sweet or dessert, Snacks
PuttuVeganപുട്ട്
🇮🇳 India and 2 moreSteamed cylinders of rice flour and coconut, served hot for breakfast
Main dish, Breakfast
UpmaVegetarian
🇮🇳 India and 1 moreA soft, savoury porridge made from roasted semolina or rice flour
Main dish, Breakfast, Dinner
Parotta
🇮🇳 India and 5 moreLayered flatbread from South India, soft and flakey, made with refined flour
Bread, Breakfast, Lunch
AvialVegetarianഅവിയൽ
🇮🇳 IndiaA thick vegetable stew with coconut and curry leaves from Kerala
Main dish, Lunch, Dinner
KozhukattaVegetarianകൊഴുക്കട്ട (Malayalam), கொழுகட்டை (Tamil)
🇮🇳 India and 1 moreSteamed rice flour dumplings filled with sweet coconut and jaggery
Sweet or dessert, Breakfast, Snacks
Kottu rotiකොත්තු රොටි
🇱🇰 Sri Lanka and 1 moreSri Lankan street dish of chopped roti stir-fried with meat, egg, vegetables and spices
Main dish, Dinner, Lunch
PathiriVegan
🇮🇳 IndiaThin rice flour flatbread from Kerala, often paired with curries
Bread, Lunch, Dinner
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Parotta: Amanbedi1, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Appam: Jomesh at Malayalam Wikipedia, CC BY 3.0, source
- Upma: Intodustin, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Palm wine: Nick Hobgood Peace Corps Zaire, CC BY 2.0, source
- Sadya: Augustus Binu / facebook, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Puttu: Mathew Jibin, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Avial: Sivahari, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Kozhukatta: Jayashree Govindarajan, CC BY 2.0, source
- Banana chip: Ji-Elle, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Kottu roti: Unknown author, Public domain, source
- Pathiri: cl3m, CC BY-SA 3.0, source