South Indian cuisine is based mainly on rice. Paste made out of lentils and rice is base of most of South Indian recipes like dosa,vada,idli and uttapam. South Indian cuisine is easy to digest and full of nourishment due to fermenting process and the same time they are delicious and glorious. South Indian cuisine is generous but the same time there is a perfect uses of different spices. Most of the dishes that are cooked in South Indian cuisine the final tempering remain same, which includes a perfect mixture of oil, mustard seeds, curry leaves and red chilies etc. There is a wide use of coconut in this cuisine and most of time you will find gravy of coconut.