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Before eating traditional cuisine, people clean the banana leaf with water. It is used as a large dining table sheet to serve food for guests and family members on which the food items are placed. Rice is served on one part of the banana leaf (towards the eater), whereas poriyal, appalam and other items are served on the other part of the leaf.
Koozh is the Tamil name for a porridge made from millet. It is a traditional food in villages of Tamil Nadu. In Tamil Nadu and other places, koozh is consumed as either breakfast or lunch. Koozh is made from Kezhvaragu or Cumbu flour and broken rice, known as noiyee in Tamil, and is cooked in a clay pot.
Idiyappam is a culinary speciality throughout the Indian states of Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Karnataka and the country of Sri Lanka.The name idiyappam derives from Tamil. The Tamil word 'Idi' together forms the name Idiyappam. The dish is also, frequently, called as noolappam or noolputtu, originating from the Tamil word nool, meaning string or thread.
Map of South India. According to culinary historians K. T. Achaya and Ammini Ramachandran, the ancient Sangam literature dated from 3rd century BCE to 3rd century CE offers early references to food and recipes during Sangam era, whether it's a feast at king's palace, meals in towns and countryside, at hamlets in forests, pilgrimage and the rest-houses during travels.
Chettinad cuisine offers a variety of vegetarian and non-vegetarian dishes. Some of the popular vegetarian dishes include idiyappam, paniyaram, vellai paniyaram, karuppatti paniyaram, paal paniyaram, kuzhi paniyaram, kozhukatta, masala paniyaram, aadikoozh, kandharappam, seeyam, masala seeyam, kavuni arisi, maavurundai, and athirasam.
Boli in Tamil Nadu is a golden yellow sweet pancake from South India. It is eaten during a traditional Sadhya along with Payasam. Several varieties of boli are prepared including thenga (coconut) boli and jaggery,sugar. Boli is especially famous in the southernmost districts of Tamil Nadu and Kerala, India and northern Sri Lanka. Boli is eaten ...
For North Indian cuisine, Patel loves sarson ka saag — a Punjabi dish of mustard greens cooked with spices — and the lamb kebabs of Uttar Pradesh.
Puttu with chickpea curry. Puttu principally consists of coarsely ground rice, grated coconut, little salt and water. It is often spiced with cumin, but may have other spices.. The Sri Lankan variant is usually made with wheat flour or red rice flour without cumin, whereas the Bhatkal recipes have plain coconut or masala variant made with mutton- or shrimp-flavoured grated cocon