Sesame Ball

A bowl of crunchy spiced roasted peanuts and a cup of hot tea is my favorite combo and serves as an excellent mood elevator..! Also, peanuts are good source of protein. They’re rich in magnesium, iron and copper too.

Nankhatai are traditional Indian shortbread cookies/biscuits made with all-purpose flour, semolina, sugar and ghee.

Pakkavada is a very popular Kerala. It’s also known as ribbon pakkoda due to its peculiar shape. This crispy, crunchy, spicy snack is prepared from rice flour, gram flour, chili powder, asafoetida, and salt. It is very tasty with little heat and spice on it. Its most commonly served at tea time.

Sharkara Upperi, in simpler words, ‘sweet banana chips’ are one of the traditional dish prepared in Kerala during Onam Sadya. It is cooked using raw banana, jaggery, coconut oil, and cumin powder. This snack recipe is part
of dishes prepared for Onam festival, however, you can also make it on other occasions as well. This delicious chips recipe can be served at kitty parties, picnics, and game nights. Also, if you are fasting, then this snack can be
eaten, as it is prepared using raw bananas. You can also take these chips on road trips, as  they stay ne for consuming for long hours when stored in an airtight container. Kids will love this recipe as it is sweet in taste and have flavours of cumin and ginger powder. You can serve this snack with tea or filter coffee.

Kuzhalappam aka rice flour cannoli is tube shaped snack popular among the Christians in Kerala. It is prepared by deep frying roasted rice flour along with onion, garlic, sesame seeds and cumin.

Banana Chips are a popular snack in Kerala (South India). Sliced banana fried in oil and sprinkled with salt, called upperi or kaya varuthathu in Malayalam. Both ripe and unripe bananas are used for this variant, sometimes they are coated with jaggery to form sweet variants. They hold a very important place in Kerala Sadya, a vegetarian feast prepared during festive occasions