Keara Cuisine is well enriched with the variety of Tea Time Snacks known as Chaya Palaharangal (ചായ പലഹാരങ്ങൾ). For Malayalee these snacks accompanied tea is unavoidable for evening Tea and is when the Tea shops across the state get crowded!…. Malayali’s snack menu include with multitude of snack types, varieties of which ranging from North to South and sweet to salt.
I am trying to cover most of these snack recipes throughout Kerala, and will keep updating time to time…… Feel free to give your feedback and suggestions…
Meat Puffs
I previously have the recipes shared for the sweet puffs and a video recipe for egg puffs. Similar to egg puffs, meat puffs has also become a favorite bakery snack that goes well as an evening tea-time snacks. The general preparation steps for the meat-puffs is same as the egg ...
Egg Bajji
Bajji is an easy to make snack recipe where the filling is dipped in a batter prepared from Besan/ gram flour or Maida. These oil fried snack is perfect for evening tea accompaniment. Egg Bajji, as the name says, the filling is sliced boiled eggs and gives this traditional snack ...
Sambar Vadai
Here I share the recipe of one of the best tasting and authentic recipe of south Indian Kitchen, especially to Tamil Nadu. Sambar vadai, medu vadai (ഉഴുന്ന് വട) soaked in hot sambar, is very special to vegetarian restaurants across the state and also to the Brahmin cuisines. Sambar vadai is ...
Unnakkaya
Unnakkaya -Banana Rolls (ഉന്നക്കായ) is delicious, sweet and traditional Kerala snack popular in Malabar side. It is typically prepared during the Ramzan days for “nombuthura” . … Unnakkaya is prepared with smashed bananas stuffed with cashew nuts, raisins and rice flakes. ...
Chakli (Boiled Urad Dal Murukku)
Here is another traditional festival snack recipe known to be “Chakli” in Hindi, which is a soft Murukku version prepared with “Boiled Urud Dal”. Unlike the traditional Murukku recipe the dough here is prepared with cooked and pasted Urud-Dal (ഉഴുന്ന്), which gives majority of the taste to it. The rice ...
Sweet Puffs
Sweet filled puffs, a typical bakery snack dish common in Indian Bakeries and sweet shops. The preparation is similar to that of other Indian puffs dishes with Egg/chicken masala. The sweet filling is prepared from grated coconut, sugar and coarse powdered nuts and tutti-frutti. It can be served as ...
Kuzhalappam
Kuzhalappam (കുഴലപ്പം); an evening snack delicacy from Kerala, the aroma and taste of which will surely make the Malayalee nostalgic!. This snack has the richness of coconut and rice flour and a perfect accompaniment with a cup of tea. Kuzhalappam is typically prepared on festival occasions, especially in Christian cuisines ...
Kerala mixture
Mixture (Sev Mix) is a common crispy snack mix, popular in most of the Indian states with different variations-spice/sweet/sour tastes. The name Mixture comes from the combination of ingredients this snack has in it. The recipe I share here is of mixture (മിച്ചർ) in its extreme spicy form which is ...
Pakkavada (പക്കാവട)
Pakkavada (പക്കാവട) is a very popular Kerala snack item prepared from rice flour and besan. Its also known as ribbon pakoda due to its peculiar shape. This crispy and spicy snack is a quick make and is typically enjoyable to kids and elders. Its most commonly served as a tea time ...
Parippu Vada
Parippuvada (പരിപ്പു വട) , I would say, is the most popular tea time snack of Kerala. It’s a crispy and medium-spice snack made out of coarse ground Channa Dal (കടല പരിപ്പ് ) added with a few spices, & fried -traditionally- in coconut oil. ...
Egg Puffs
Puffs are recently becoming popular tea-time bakery snack in India . This semi-crispy delight comes with multiple filling options, sweet, masala, veg or non-veg, of which egg-masala filled Egg- Puffs are most popular. It’s made of boiled egg with masala wrapped in to readily available pastry sheets. Egg puffs ...
Ari Murukku
Ari murukku (Rice –Murukku) a popular crispy snack of South India, an unavoidable delight for festivals like Divali, Krishna Jayanthi and Onam etc. Its served some time as a tea-time snack for guests and for friends gatherings. Generally it is made in spiral shape prepared with is a mix of ...
Achappam
A traditional and authentic teatime light sweet and crunchy snack of Kerala. Achappam is traditionally made during festivals & for tea-time. It is very delicate but incredibly crunchy & delicious. Achappam looks similar to western rosette cookies. It is made using ’achu’ which means specially designed mould. ...
Ragi Flour Avalos podi
Avalos podi ( (അവലോസ് പൊടി) is a popular evening tea-time snack of the south Indian states especially in our state of Kerala. It is traditionally made with rice flour. It tastes great by mixing a little sugar and banana OR jaggery , also can be transformed into Avalose unda which is another famous ...
