Kerala Street Food

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5 street foods from Kerala, India: Puttu & Kadala Curry, Kerala Banana Chips, Kerala Parotta, Unniyappam and Pazham Pori. Each one has its own page with the story behind it and what to look for.

Street foods of Kerala

Breakfast Staple · Steamed Rice Cylinder Puttu & Kadala Curry In a Tamil legend retold in the Thiruvilaiyadal Puranam, Lord Shiva disguised himself as a laborer to help an elderly puttu seller and asked to be… Ground rice is layered with grated coconut inside a perforated cylindrical steamer and cooked over boiling water until it sets into a soft, crumbly log. It's tipped out onto a plate and… Coconut-Oil Fry · Salted Plantain Crisps Kerala Banana Chips The traditional chips are cut from nendran, a large local plantain, and fried in coconut oil, which gives them their aroma; the jaggery-coated… Thin slices of raw green plantain are fried in coconut oil until golden and crisp, salted, and sometimes finished with turmeric or a jaggery glaze called sharkara upperi. Roadside stalls… Layered Griddle Bread · Malabar Staple Kerala Parotta Parotta and beef fry is such a standard pairing in Kerala that 'porotta-beef' is often written as a single item on eatery boards. A maida dough is beaten, stretched paper-thin with oil, folded into layers, coiled, and rolled flat before hitting a hot griddle, producing a flaky, chewy bread that's pulled apart by hand… Festival Sweet · Jaggery-Banana Fritter Unniyappam It's fried a spoonful at a time in a pan of small round molds called an unniyappa chatti, the same style of pan used for South Indian paniyaram and… Ground rice batter is mixed with jaggery, mashed ripe banana, and cardamom, studded with fried coconut bits, and spooned into a heavy, dimpled cast-iron pan to fry into small, dome-shaped… Tea Shop Staple · Fried Banana Fritter Pazham Pori It goes by at least three names depending on where you order it in Kerala — pazham pori, ethakka appam, or bajji — but it's the same batter-dipped… Ripe nendran plantains are sliced lengthwise, dipped in a sweetened rice-and-flour batter, and deep-fried until the coating turns crisp and golden while the banana inside softens and…

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