Sweets & snacks
Kulukki
Shaken lime soda with mint, green chilli, and soaked basil seeds — a Kerala street drink.
About
Kulukki sarbath is lime juice, soda or water, sugar, mint, green chilli, and soaked sabja (basil) seeds, shaken hard in a bottle until frothy. Beach stalls and juice shops from Thiruvananthapuram to Kozhikode sell it as a hot-afternoon cooler.
Course
Drink
Region
Statewide
Typically with
Beach snacks, summer afternoons
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