Kelelemi Food

Kelelemi food is very diverse, encompassing the regional and traditional foods of Kelelemi. The main foods consumed are fish, sea plants, tropical fruits and beef. Seafood and rice make up the majority of diets in Kelelemi. Most foods were developed around 500 TT, 150 years before Kelelemi Reunification. Sauces are also widely used in foods and dishes. A majority of foods in Kelelemi have religious symbolism and traditions.

Sauces

There are three traditional sauces- Oliki sauce, Kawakia sauce and Kara sauce. Oliki sauce is very sugary, made from the Oliki fruit in the jungles in Koraliti. Kawakia sauce is sour and salty, made from vegetables and olive fruit mashed together and juiced. This juice is then fermented and salted in a process that takes 2 years, making Kawakia sauce very expensive. Kara sauce is made from fermented Kara plants and is thick like molasses, it is mostly used in Sorewa culture and considered peasant food. However, Kara sauce is considered holy in Sorewa traditional beliefs and religions.

Kotowi sauce is made from baked and pasted rice. It is used as dressing, seasoning and dipping in many foods. Some variants are also used as a drink but this is mostly unpopular. In Sorewa culture, Kotowi sauce is considered the holiest of liquids and sauces, due to its correlation with the victory of Ancient Sorewa Battle Warriors in martial arts fights against Kawakian feudal lords, making it a symbol of triumph and honor. It is often prepared for holy meals in Sorewa temples, and it is deemed evil to use Kotowi sauce in a poorly cooked food. However, Kawakians have been appropriating this sauce as a slight to the Sorewa.

These sauces are part of almost every dish in Kelelemi cuisine. Due to instability in food markets following the Kelelemi Civil War, the prices of many of these sauces have soared, as the regions have been damaged, the infrastructure to make these sauces has been destroyed, and the distribution of these foods has become more difficult.

Fruits

Fruits are very prevalent in Kelelemite foods and are used in dishes as well as desserts and drinks. Fruits have been the first choice of food in Kelelemi due to the vast amount of fruit plants in the jungles growing in Kelelemi, and are considered valuable due to their sugarness, as well as juice.

Fish

Fish are extremely common in food here. Do not expect to go to Kelelemi without eating fish.

Dishes in Kelelemi

Yagalomu

Yagalomu is a very popular and common meal in Kelelemi culture. It consists of varying fish and duck chunks in a stew/broth. It is considered working man's food and is a once-a-week meal for many Kelelemites. It is sometimes accompanied by Kara or Controvil sauce, as well as seaweed in some regions. In Sarainada region, Eastern Ananela, Baked yagalom is commonly eaten however some people from Koraliti and Kerala consider this slanderous to food in general.

Bakari

Bakari is a staple of Kelelemi diets around the nation. First brewed in Oda Zakota in 40TT by two homeless men, it quickly took the country as the ''perfect'' compact meal, easy to cook, cheap to buy, and very tasty. It consists of Beef, rice, seaweed and Oliki sauce, brewed in a rice broth. Variants may also incorporate Crooked Channel fish (such as Alomi shark fin) into the meal. The ingredients are so common and cheap, that it is found in nearly every region of Kelelemi (except the cultist regions of Sorewa homeland that do not eat food made after Unification.) Many students eat it as it is illegal not to provide Bakari to students in universities in Kelelemi Law. Also, soldiers of the Kelelemi United Army eat it as part of their rations.

Karewolu

Karewolu is fried rice, seaweed, and a myriad of other toppings, cooked and marinated in Kawakia sauce. It is a staple food, mostly eaten at home, but sometimes served at upscale restaurants. Vegetables, onion, garlic, edible mushrooms, seafood such as crab meat, salmon, shrimp and octopus, scrambled egg, beef and chicken broth, among others, are used as toppings. Kara sauce is sometimes added, especially in Central Koraliti. Its versatility as a meal, being prepared in so many ways makes it a common dish however some meals may be subpar due to poor ingredients.