Best South Indian Food – Yummy South Indian Dishes

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• South Indian foods are mainly popular for their taste and flavour.
• It also nourishes the body.
• Provides good digestion.
• Even people at the global and national level, prefer eating and enjoying such south Indian foods.

Here, a list of top 10 Best South Indian Food is given below.

1)DOSA

• A famous delicious breakfast food item.
• A traditional breakfast consumed by south Indians.
• People who give preference for taste enjoy eating dosas.
• Made out of fermented rice and lentils.
• Types of dosas-masala dosa,  Rava dosa, ghee dosa, paper roast, egg dosa, etc.
• Served with sambar and all types of chutney.

How to make dosa batter? (video):

Masala Dosa

• A famous south Indian dish enjoyed by people across the world.

Recipe:

• Prepare a dosa batter by soaking rice, lentils, and urad dhal overnight.
• Grind them to form a batter.
• Fermented batter is spread on a dosa stone in thin layers.
• Add oil or ghee to make it a little more crispy and tasty.
• Once the dosa is ready, the masala stuffing is filled in the central part of the prepared dosa.
• Masalastuffing-prepared with boiled potatoes and seasoned with green chilli and mustard seeds.
• You can garnish it by using lemon juice and coriander leaves.
• Served with sambar and varied types of chutney.

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Onion Rava Dosa

• A delicious recipe  (TamilNadu).
• Main Ingredient-Semolina.

Recipe:

• Prepared with a batter of rice flour, semolina, and water.
• Highly flavoured with cardamom seeds, asafoetida, carrot, black pepper, curry leaves, diced onion, salt, etc.
• Mix all the ingredients and pour them in heated Tava or dosa stone.
• Ghee is sprinkled and cooked for two minutes.
• Served with coconut chutney and sambar.

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For Podi dosa, ghee dosa, and onion dosa:

• Stick on to the same procedure but change the stuffing depending upon the type of dosas made.

Note:

• If you feel that it’s too oily and crispy(unhealthy), you can very easily make dosas without adding oil or ghee to it.

2)IDLI

• A small white spongey cake.
• It is otherwise called steamed rice cakes.
• It is soft, fluffy, and ivory coloured.
• South Indian families eat it for breakfast.
• Idlies-light and mild tasting.

Recipe:

• Prepare a fermented batter of rice and lentils.
• Steam them in little circular moulds by using an idly cooker or idly vessel.
• The resulting spherical rice cakes are idlies.

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Rava Idli

• A breakfast item.
• Main ingredient-semolina.

Recipe:

• Heat two teaspoon ghee or oil in a pan.
• Add sooji or rava and roast it until aromatic.
• Keep it aside.
• Pour another teaspoon of oil and fry cashew nuts in the same pan.
• Add the fried nuts to the roasted Rava.
• Now, in the same pan add one teaspoon of oil and sprinkle mustard seeds.
• As soon as the mustard seeds start bursting, add little chana dhal, asafoetida, and curry leaves.
• Fry all these for few minutes.
• Add this mix to the rava prepared.
• Form a smooth paste.
• Add yoghurt with ginger, green chillies, and salt for flavour.
• Keep it aside for half an hour.
• Prepare the idly in a steamer.
• Cook for 10 minutes and serve hot with sambar and coconut chutney.

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Note:

• This food item is highly healthy since the steamed cakes are prepared without adding any oil or ghee.
• So, it is normally taken as morning breakfast and night dinner.

3)Puttu

• Another common south Indian dish(TamilNadu, Karnataka, and Kerala).
• A breakfast dish -cylinder-shaped(steamed rice cake).
• Prepared with rice flour and coconut.
• It is very tasty.
• It is consumed with sweet black coffee.

Recipe:

• Fill up a big vessel with rice flour.
• Add water and salt to form a smooth paste.
• Add two cups of water to the bottom of the puttu maker vessel.
• Allow the puttu maker vessel to simmer till it becomes hot.
• Place the round perforated disc with holes inside the puttu maker vessel to fit well at the bottom of the mould.
• Place a layer of grated coconut at the bottom of the puttu maker by using the puttu making bowl.
• Next, add nearly six tablespoons of puttu powder.
• Place the lid over the puttu mold and place the mold over the bottom part of the puttu maker vessel.
• Allow it to cook for nearly five minutes.
• Serve hot puttu with fruits like jack fruit, mango, plantain, and chickpea curry.

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Note:

• It is also another healthy food to be consumed since oil or ghee is not added for its preparation.
• It is only a boiled rice cake.

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4)BISIBELEBHATH:

• A traditional Karnataka food.
• Served in all Kannadiga’s families.
• A rice-based dish cooked with vegetables and Toor dhal.
• Served hot with boondi, papad, salad, potato chips, and chutney.
• This dish is generally found in restaurants serving Udupi cuisine.

Recipe:

• Rice and Toor dhal – pressure cooked.
• Prepare Bisibelebhath powder separately.
• Fry tomatoes, brinjal, green chillies, carrots, beans, garlic, cloves, and potatoes separately in a pan.
• Add needed spices and tamarind pulp.
• Mix the fried vegetables with cooked rice and dhal.
• Stir all the ingredients.
• Finally, season and serve.

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Note:

• Bisibelebath powder is also available in the market and departmental stores.

5)CHICKEN 65

• Another delicious and tasty south Indian dish.
• A fried chicken mixed with spicy flavours.

Recipe:

• Wash and clean 250 grams of chicken.
• Add chilli powder, cornflour, 1/2 cup of lemon juice, salt, etc to the chicken.
• Stir it well and leave it aside for 30 minutes.
• Take a pan.
• Pour oil. Heat the oil.
• Add the soaked chicken into the oil and fry it till it turns brown.
• Now, your chicken 65 is ready. Serve it with ringed onions and sliced lemon.

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Note:

• You can also add chicken 65 masala powder which is available in the market/departmental stores/shopping malls.

6)BIRYANI

• A very famous and loved dish of Indians.
• A Best South Indian Food.
• Various types of Biryani-mutton, chicken, vegetable, prawn, fish,  etc.

Vegetable Biryani

Recipe:

• Soak the rice(basmati or jeera samba rice )for 20-30 minutes.
• Salute main coarse spices in oil followed by onions.
• Fry chillies and ginger garlic paste.
• Next, add vegetables like carrot, potato, and beans and boil them.
• Add Biryani masala.
• Mix the half-boiled vegetables with rice and leave it till it is cooked.

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For Non-Veg Biryani:

• Stick on to the same procedure, but instead of vegetables any of the non-veg items like mutton, chicken, prawns, etc can be added with basmati or jeera samba rice.

Note:

• Biryani prepared with jeera samba rice is more healthy.
• It won’t get spoilt soon.
• Non-veg biryani is more tasty and delicious compared to vegetable biryani.
• So, many biryani lovers prefer preparing non-veg biryani rather than vegetable biryani.

7)VADAI(Best South Indian Food)

• A fried breakfast snack or evening Tiffin eaten with coffee or tea.
• It is made using legumes paste such as chickpea, pigeon pea, and urad mung, etc.
• Types of vadais -masala vadai, keerai vadai, and medhu vadas.
• Served with sambar and coconut chutneys.

Masala Vadai

• Otherwise known as “Aamai Vadai”(Tamil).
• Masala Vadai is prepared with toor dhal.

Recipe:

• Form a batter of soaked Toor dhal.
• Next, add different vegetables such as mint leaves, coriander, chilies, spring onions, and onions to the soaked Toor dhal batter.
• Use a frying saucer to give a rough shape and deep fry them.
• It is served with green mint chutney or coconut chutney.

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Keerai Vadai

• Very popular and sold in small tea stalls and college canteens.
• Healthy and nutritious.
• Has a lot of spinach in it.

Recipe:

• Make a mixture by grinding soaked chenna dhal with Toor dhal.
• Add chopped spinach leaves to the mixture.
• For high flavour, add grated ginger, onions, green chillies, etc.
• Mix the ingredients with a certain quantity of water, turmeric powder, and salt.
• Use a frying saucer to give them a rough shape and deep fry them in the oil.
• Serve with dry chilli chutney.

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Medhu Vadai

• Medhu means”soft” in Kannada.
• They are soft inside and crispy outside.

Recipe:

• Soak the black lentils in water for many hours before frying.
• For flour, add curry leaves, methi seeds, green chillies, and black pepper.
• Give a doughnut shape to the batter and deep fry it in oil.
• Serve hot with sambar and coconut chutney.

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8)VATHA kuzhambu

• A famous Tamil Nadu curry dish.
• Served as a side dish for rice.
• Main ingredients-vegetables and tamarind.
• Other types of vathakuzhambu-mor kuzhambu, poondu kuzhambu, and kara kara kuzhambu.

Recipe:

• Heat a pan with oil and mustard seeds.
• Once the seeds start bursting, add Toor dhal, curry leaves, tamarind juice, and red chilli powder.
• Mix the ingredients well.
• Add chopped onion, tomato, turkey berry, and spices.
• Stir well and eat it for twenty minutes.
• Serve hot with rice, papad, and potato chips.

Note:

• A curry dish high in nutritional values.

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9)PAZHAM PORI(Best South Indian Food)

• Ripe banana fritters.
• A favourite snack enjoyed by Keralites.
• It is also known as “Ethakka Appam”.
• It is a deep-fried banana dish served in many hotels, hostel canteens, railway platforms, roadside snacks stalls in Kerala.

Recipe:

• For batter preparation, add maida, cumin, sugar, turmeric, rice flour, salt, and water.
• Cut the riped bananas into slices.
• Dip them in the prepared batter.
• Preheat the oil in a pan and deeply fry each banana slices separately.
• Cook till you see the crispy, outer coating(Pazham Pori).
• Serve hot with coffee, milk, and tea.

Note:

• It is also a preferred snack of Coimbatore people.

10)GONGKURA

• A traditional dish of Andhra Pradesh.
• Popularly known as Gongkura chutney or Gongkura Pachadi.

Recipe:

• In a hot pan, lightly fry red chillies, mustard seeds, garlic, cumin seeds, Gongkura leaves, and curry leaves in oil.
• Bring it to normal room temperature.
• Use a mixie and grind it to make chutney.
• Served with Idly, dosa, and rice.

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