Kerala Food & Festival Quiz

Questions

1. 1Which un-fried, steamed flat rice-flour cake wrapped in fresh plantain leaves is prepared as an offering for ancestors during the dark moon of Karkidakam? (7 letters)
2. 2What dry, sweetened mixture of parched rice, jaggery, ginger powder, and coconut bits is distributed as the main temple prasadam to devotees during Medam? (14 letters)
3. 3What plain, un-salted arrowroot powder porridge or pudding is prepared by women observing a strict overnight fast during Kumbham? (10 letters)
4. 4Which unique, bitter-spiced medicinal rice porridge made with an assortment of 20+ Ayurvedic herbs is consumed daily for physical rejuvenation during the monsoon month? (14 letters)
5. 5Which sweet dish consisting of rice, jaggery, coconut scraping, and ghee is boiled by millions of women simultaneously in earthen pots in Thiruvananthapuram during Kumbham? (14 letters)
6. 6Which hearty root-vegetable mash combining sweet potato, yam, and taro with grated coconut is eaten alongside arrowroot porridge during this Dhanu month festival? (20 letters)
7. 7Which legendary, velvety milk-and-rice sweet kheer, simmered for hours until it turns a faint pink hue, is the premier birthday offering for Lord Krishna in Chingam? (22 letters)
8. 8Which traditional evening snack made from roasted rice flour, jaggery, and grated coconut, packed into un-opened plantain leaves, is eaten on this Karthika light festival? (12 letters)
9. 9What special, multi-day dried and packed rice-and-jaggery bundle called Irumudikkettu contains a coconut filled with which fluid for the Sabarimala pilgrimage? (4 letters)