Keralan Food Day

Here at Ayurvedagram, Karalan special meals are served on every Sunday. Kerala is home for Ayurveda, and so Keralan meals provide all six tastes ( sweet, sour, salty, pungent, astringent, and bitter) that we all need to keep us in balance (as Ayurveda says). The amount of each taste one needs is different from person to person depends on the body type and current health condition, but still we all should include all these tastes in our every day meal.

Clockwise:
• Red rice (very common rice in Kerala. It's easier to digest than regular rice, and has more nutrition.)
• Inji Puli (swee/sour sauce made of ginger, jaggery, tamarind)
• Thoran (shredded cabbage, coconut, with curry leaves, mustard seeds)
• Avial (steamed veggies roughly coated in ground coconut and yogurt)
• Pachadi (a bit bitter tasting mix of yogurt, onion, coconut, yogurt, curry leaves, mustard seeds, coriander leaves)
• Morucurry (yogurt, mustard seeds, curry leaves, ginger, garlic, green chili, hint of turmeric)
• Dhal with Ghee
Middle:
• Errissery (not so spicy curry of red pumpkin and red grams)

Dessert:
• Paripu Payasam (sweet rice and mung bean pudding with cashews and raisins

It'll be very interesting to sample Keralan food in Karala!!
This is my last week at Ayurvedagram. After this, I'll be starting my journey clockwise through south of India～!