Rice is the staple food of South India and this is why most of the food items are made of rice - be it breakfast, lunch, snacks or dinner. In breakfast, people prefer to have Idli (steamed rice cakes) or dosa along with coconut chutney or tomato chutney.

Idly, dosa, pongal, vada are the most famous south Indian breakfast items. Idly/Dosa is best described as a pancake made of fermented rice and urad batter. There are a number of variations of dosa, but traditionally, it is served with sambar and coconut chutney, and a stuffing of potatoes.

The traditional lunch in Tamilnadu are Rice staples, Tomato Rice, Paruppu, sambar, rasam, kuzhambu, poriyal and kootu and pachadi. Dry and fresh fruits or vegetables are also used to prepare traditional cuisine. They serve salt, pickles, vada, payasam, appalam and aviyal.