Breakfast

Statewide Puttu Steamed cylinders of ground rice layered with coconut — Kerala’s classic morning puttu. Read more → Statewide Kadala curry Black-chickpea curry in roasted coconut — the classic partner to puttu, appam, and chapathi. Read more → Statewide Cherupayar curry Whole green-gram curry for puttu — a lighter Kerala morning gravy than kadala. Read more → Statewide Appam & stew Lacy palappam with mild coconut stew — Kerala’s hopper-and-ishtu breakfast. Read more → Statewide Idiyappam Steamed rice-string nests — noolappam — eaten with curry or sweet coconut milk. Read more → Statewide Dosa Fermented rice-and-urad crepe, crisp or soft, eaten with chutney and sambar. Read more → Statewide Idli Steamed rice-and-urad cakes — a mild Kerala morning plate with chutney and sambar. Read more → Statewide Chapathi Soft whole-wheat flatbread cooked on a tawa — a Kerala breakfast and dinner staple with curry or thoran. Read more → Statewide Poori Puffed deep-fried wheat bread, usually paired with potato masala. Read more → Statewide Upma Savoury rava porridge with curry leaves, mustard, and coconut — a quick Kerala breakfast. Read more → Statewide Pazhankanji Leftover rice soaked overnight into a cool kanji — Kerala’s old morning bowl. Read more → Statewide Egg curry Nadan mutta curry in roasted spices — the everyday egg plate with appam, puttu, or chapathi. Read more → Statewide Vegetable stew Mild coconut-milk stew of potato, carrot, and beans — the vegetarian partner to appam. Read more → Statewide Coconut chutney Ground coconut with chilli and curry-leaf tempering — the chutney of idli, dosa, and puttu. Read more → Statewide Ghee rice Nei choru — fragrant rice fried in ghee with fried onion, the hotel plate beside chicken roast. Read more → Malabar Pathiri Thin rice-flour flatbreads from the Mappila kitchen of north Kerala. Read more → Statewide Kerala parotta Flaky, layered wheat bread, famously paired with beef or chicken curry. Read more → Malabar Thalassery biryani Kaima-rice biryani of north Kerala, packed rather than layered like Hyderabadi styles. Read more →