| A Kerala breakfast is considered to be the best | | | | and grated coconut mixture is filled into a half coconut |
| breakfast in the world. There is very less oil used – | | | | nut shell. And when it is cooked it is put upside down |
| that would be one reason for which it is considered to | | | | onto the plate. It looks like a hemisphere, and it looks |
| be one like that. Originally a Kerala meal is served on | | | | very different and it is garnished with kadala curry. |
| "vazha illa" (banana leaf)..But now a days you see it | | | | Most of the malayalee's love to have puttu, but there |
| only for sadhya and for other specific occasions, you | | | | are still some exceptions. Some people mispronouncing |
| may see it in a Kerala household. But you can find it in | | | | it as "Pittu" don't get misled. It is exactly "Puttu". There |
| some restaurants. It is basically a "use and throw" | | | | is another variety called as "chakka puttu" here grated |
| system. The breakfast specialties are "Puttu"(steamed | | | | jackfruit is added into the mixture and steamed, which |
| rice cake) and kadala "curry"(variety of gram), Appam | | | | gives you a sweet taste. "Puttu" and "pazham" |
| and "mutta" curry – egg curry, Iddiappam, chicken | | | | (plantain) is a common combination, also some people |
| curry and so on..also you could find other south Indian | | | | have it with milk. Anyone planning to visit Kerala, |
| delicacies like idly, dosa and so on. These are some | | | | shoulddefinitelytry out "puttu", just ask the restaurant |
| basic examples, none of these dishes contain too | | | | people to prepare it for you. If you ask in advance |
| much of oil or other fat. But then too malayalee at | | | | they would love to make it for you..And if you want to |
| times have puttu with ghee or papad. There is a | | | | make a 1000 varieties of puttu, don't besurprised…you |
| variety called the cherata puttu, here the rice powder | | | | could easily do it. |