Palakkad Cuisine – Palghat cuisine is basically vegetarian. It makes extensive use of dals, and coconut. The cooking method is usually steam cooking with minimal use of oil and hence quite healthy.

Palakkad Sambar Masala – Palghat people use less ingredients to prepare for sambar masala and they use coconut oil to roast pulses used in the ingredients and they add turmeric powder which give unique taste in Palakkad sambar.