INDIA TRIP PART 3: Food!

Cherian’s aunts prepared for our arrival and arranged to make a lot of great food with the help of their servants.  Their attitude is that we should eat since we hardly get a chance to eat their food! So, we've eaten a LOT!! We’ve also eaten at some great restaurants and festivities.  Here is a list of some of the great, interesting food we’ve eaten:

Ricepatties with jackfruit in banana leaves

• Iddli and dosai with sambar, coconut chutney, powdered chutney
• Rice, dahl, sambar and homemade yoghurt
• Poori, south Indian parota, bhatura
• Appam with chicken and vegetarian curry
• Wattayappam (fluffy rice, coconut cake) with curry or coconut milk and sugar
• Vegetable and meat cutlets
• Mango curry
• Paneer curry
• Jackfruit in ricepatties steamed in banana leaves
• Fried jackfruit seed
• Jackfruit seed curry
• Eggplant thoran (sliced thin and prepared with coconut)
• Kerala beef
• Kerala shrimp curry
• Fried paneer
• Fried fish (kingfish, sardines)



Eating with hands on banana leaves

• Crab boiled with masala (only because Kiran went to the fish market with my parents and wanted a crab claw)

And we are so proud that the kids have eaten EVERYTHING and have finished what was served to them. Some days, the kids wouldn’t stop eating!!

And, we’ve seen first-hand where a lot of food comes from! Fruit/Nut bearing trees/plants seen so far:

• Coconut
• Mango
• Guava
• Banana
• Cashew
• Almond
• Papaya
• Mangosteen
• Sapota
• Nutmeg
• Rambutan
• Tapioca (Cuppa)
• Coffee
• Kerala Yams (Chana)



Almonds

• Tamarind

Mango

Fruits eaten:

• Banganapalli mango – sweet & ‘parfumy’,  must use a knife/peeler to get the skin off
• Romani mango – smaller, sweeter, can peel the skin off with your fingers
• Sapota
• Mangosteen
• Jackfruit
• Papaya
• Tender coconut (with molasses)
• Rambutan
• Gooseberry (not for the faint of heart… sour, bitter, and is only sweet when washed down with water)

More pictures below!!

Jackfruit

Cashew

Fruit stand in Kerala

Coffee

Rambutan

Tapioca

Sapota