South Indian Recipes

South Indian cuisine spans Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh - four states with strikingly different food cultures, but shared building blocks: rice, lentils, coconut, curry leaves and tamarind. It is some of the world’s healthiest, most fermented, most vegetable-forward cooking.

Look for fermented batters (dosa, idli, appam), tangy lentil stews (sambar, rasam), coconut-rich curries (Kerala stew, fish moilee), and the unforgettable mustard-curry-leaf tempering that opens almost every dish.