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There is no dearth of variety when one goes to explore the Kerala cuisine. The staple food is rice, which is consumed with an assortment of curries and gravies. The cuisine incorporates a liberal use of spices which renders the dishes with a unique taste. A very popular breakfast dish is “Appam”, which is basically a rice pancake with a soft fluffy center. The dish is eaten with vegetable or mutton stew. “Puttu” is rice flour and shredded coconut dough steamed in a bamboo stick. It is eaten with lentils, rice wafers and banana.
A popular appetizer, “Rasam” is an inherent part of any meal in the state. It is a thin concoction of tamarind water, red chilies, pepper and turmeric. A typical Kerala cuisine will have generous use of coconut in desiccated or paste form along with curry leaves.
“Payasam” is a very popular dessert, made by thickening a mixture of sugar, cardamom and milk on a slow fire with final addition of roasted semolina is added to the mixture. Another variant of the "Payasam" is the “Adapradhaman”, in which the semolina is replaced by thin bits of rice flakes and jaggery is added to the milk.
The cuisine varies greatly even within the state. Seafood forms the primary diet in the coastal regions; vegetables form the staple diet of the people in the plains and meat among tribal and people of northern Kerala.
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