Pleasant tasting food is available in each and every corner
of India .
Traditional Indian recipes are still very much popular across the world. Southern
part of India
is renowned for food, spices and ingredients used in the cuisines and the
serving style of the dishes. In south food is basically served on banana leaf,
which defines its culture and tradition. In every southern state cuisines are
almost similar and are incomplete without rice, so rice are considered as a
staple diet for South Indians. South Indian Dishes
also have an extensive range of chutneys such as coconut chutney, mint,
tamarind, onion, tomato, mango, yoghurt chutney and many others. All these
chutneys generally accompany the main dish and they can be wet as well as dry.
All over India, every person has some special craze for South Indian food. Southern part of India is famous
for its mixture of spices and spicy food as well. The balanced amount of spices
are used both for the vegetarian and non-vegetarian dishes. Cuisines prepared
with these spices are not only mouth-watering but they are easy to digest as
well. All the spices used in dishes of south have medicinal properties due to
which they are highly digestible. Most
of the cuisines have common spices like mustard, curry leaves, asafetida, black
pepper, tamarind, chillies and fenugreek seeds. The popular South Indian dishes
made up of these spices are dosas, rice, vada, idlis, uthapams, rasam, sambhar,
chutney, upma, payassam and many more. Even one can find the wide variation in
each dish like in dosa itself there is a huge variety like plain dosa, paper
dosa, mysore
dosa, masala dosa, rawa dosa, onion rawa dosa and many other. Mostly vegetarian
recipes are followed in south but in regions like Hyderabad , Andhra Pradesh and Kerala non-vegetarian
dishes are prevalent. The cuisine of Andhra Pradesh is largely vegetarian but
costal areas have the dominance of seafood. Hyderabad is considered as a state of Nizams
or Muslim rulers that is why dishes like biryaani, korma, kababs, meat,
chicken, fish etc are common there.