wayanad yathra: tribal cuisine

Wayanad has its own distinctive cuisine using the ingredients locally available. It is very hot and spicy. The tribal food is something different from the normal cuisine. A Wayanad tribal tour gives you an opportunity to taste the real Wayanad tribal cuisine. The food is a part of the culture of each community in Wayanad. Tapioca is popular in Wayanad and frequently eaten with fish curry or curry called “Chammanthy”.

"These people use over 350 wild plants for preparing their ethnic food making their cuisines very special."

“We prepare nearly 17 varieties of food items of the Kuruma tribe here like boiled wild tubers with honey, bamboo rice payasam, grilled chicken, fried rock crabs, fried mushroom, ‘muddha ada’, ‘muddha vada’, ‘karakkundappam’,’ kallu puttu’, coconut rice, ‘pollayappam’ and so on,

“For preparing grilled chicken, we follow the traditional way and the condiments used are entirely different from the modern style of cooking. The rock crabs are usually collected from the cracks of rocks in the nearby rivers.

‘Gandhakasala’ rice, a scented rice variety of Wayanad, is the main ingredient of the items such as coconut rice, kalluputtu, pollayappam and Karakkundappam.”

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