Guest recipes with Serene Tharian

Traditional Malabar spice mix

Malabar is a region in the South of India. The name of the region is thought to be derived from the Malayalam words mala (hill) and vaaram (range, region), westernised into ‘bar’. Until the arrival of the British, the term Malabar was used in Western trade circles as a general name for Kerala. The term Malabar Coast, historically and generally, refers to India’s southwestern coast, which