പലഹാരങ്ങൾ

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 […]