Rice is the staple food and lies at the heart of every meal. Seafood, poultry, meat and pulses are enjoyed, seasoned with delicious herbs and spices. Fresh curry leaves and mustard seeds perk up vegetables. Roasted fenugreek, coriander seeds and red chillies add spice. Fennel seeds flavour meat.
Fresh coconut gives body.
And yoghurt dresses fresh vegetable chutneys. For a taste of Madras, try our Hot Madras Cooking Sauce . Spice Coast of India. Land of coconut with colours that shout at your eyes and flavours that whisper to your tongue. Tucked away snugly below two mountain ranges, Kerala presents an endless patchwork of green paddy fields, fringed beaches and timeless tranquillity that make it one of the most beautiful of India's states.