India is a versatile land, with a huge variety of traditions, religions, cultures, art forms, and cuisines. Each Indian state has its own prime spices, ingredients, flavour, and dishes that carry a unique aroma. The Indian cuisine is full of sweet, salty, savoury, spicy, and tangy dishes and combinations for one to try from. The art of preparing an Indian dish lies in the spices used and the cooking method.
Some of the many delicious Indian cuisine dishes belong to South India. The South Indian cuisine provides for rich, nutritional, and low fat meals that carry a subtle taste and mesmerising aroma. The South Indian dishes are mostly very light yet filling and full of health benefits with high nutritional value. These meals are mostly rice-based as the most used flour is rice flour along with lentils flour and rice is majorly served and consumed in South India as a side dish along with the curry.
South Indian cuisine is extremely healthy and delicious. It is a perfect blend of ingredients, species, and vegetables as well as colour, taste, aroma, and nutrition. Try these nutritional Indian delicacies at one of the top Indian restaurants in Berlin, Dosa and More.
The 4 major states that make the Southern part of India are Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, and Tamil Nadu. With the change in time, the states all over India have accepted each other’s cultures and their food with a slight twist. While the dishes might sound and look the same, they are prepared with different spice blends and ingredients in most states.
Even in the four South Indian states, the dishes which seem the same actually have different preparation procedures and spice contents. There is a visible growth in the consumption of South Indian dishes all around the world. Companies like Haldiram, Everest, and MTR even sell ready to make batters, spices blends or masalas, etc for people to enjoy the authentic taste at home. Visit Dosa and More to enjoy true to taste South Indian dishes. Dosa and More is an Indian hotel in Germany, that serves authentic and healthy pure vegetarian meals.
Some of the popular South Indian dishes include:
1. Dosa: A thin crepe like crispy delicacy. It is prepared using semolina, rice flour, or lentils flour. This crispy treat is later filled with vegetables or other fillings according to choice. Dosa is mostly enjoyed with a warm bowl of sambar or vegetable curry and coconut chutney.
2. Idli: A soft, light, and delicious rice cake mostly enjoyed with a bowl of sambar or rasam. North Indians enjoy idli as a snack item by frying it in herbs, vegetables, and oil.
3. Upma: Upma is a flavourful breakfast dish made with roasted semolina, vegetables, ghee, nuts, urad dal or lentils, herbs, and spices. It is served hot, easy to make, and mostly enjoyed as a breakfast meal.
4. Sambar: A watery soup like side dish served with almost all South Indian dishes. Sambar has a lot of vegetables, cooked in spices and herbs. It adds flavours to the subtle taste of south Indian dishes.
5. Curd Rice: Rather than just having plain rice, add curry leaves, spices, and curd. This marvelous combination creates a mouth watering dish famous in South Indian called curd rice.
The origin of the South Indian cuisine is from four major states namely Andhra Pradesh, Kerala, Karnataka, and Tamil Nadu. Dishes staple to these four South Indian states helped in the making of the South Indian cuisine. Grab fresh and delicious South Indian Dosa at Dosa and More in Berlin, Germany.
Andhra Pradesh: The tangy and spicy dishes of the South Indian cuisine carry the flavours of Andhra Pradesh. Main reason behind these flavours is the excessive use of tamarind and chili powder. The dishes here have a great influence of the Nizams. Hyderabad in itself has a cuisine, recognised by people all around the world.
Karnataka: A huge deal of the South Indian cuisine is adapted from the cuisine of Karnataka. Due to the large number of vegetarians in Karnataka, most dishes crafted there are pure vegetarian and also rich in nutrients like protein, vitamins, etc. The world famous masala dosa tracks back to the city of Udupi in Karnataka. In this cuisine, there is liberal use of brown sugar or sweetener in the dishes.
Kerala: Also known as the state of coconuts, the major dishes with coconut are influenced by Kerala’s cuisine. Kerala is extremely popular for its seafood and is a bliss for seafood lovers. Some of the popular dishes from this region include aviyal, olan, shrimp coconut curry, fish poriyal among others.
Tamil Nadu: This cuisine includes both sweet and spicy dishes. In Tamilian cuisine, the food is classified into six tastes namely sweet, sour, salt, bitter, pungent and astringent. It is believed in Tamil Nadu for one to have a complete meal, dishes from all the six tastes should be included.
