Kel-Elemi Food
Kel-Elemi food is very diverse, encompassing the regional and traditional foods of the CKER. The main foods consumed are fish, sea plants, tropical fruits and beef. Seafood and rice make up the majority of diets in Kel-Elemi. Most foods were developed around 500 TT, 150 years before Kel-Elemi Reunification. Sauces are also widely used in foods and dishes. A majority of foods in Kel-Elemi have religious symbolism and traditions.
Sauces
There are three traditional sauces- Oliec sauce, Kawakia sauce and Qkaar sauce. Oliec sauce is very sugary, made from the Oliec fruit in the jungles in Corralith. 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. Qkaar sauce is made from fermented Qkaar plants and is thick like molasses, it is mostly used in Sorewa culture and considered peasant food. However, Qkaar sauce is considered holy in Sorewa traditional beliefs and religions.
Contorvil 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, contorvil 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 contorvil 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 Kel-Elemi cuisine. Due to instability in food markets following the Kel-Elemi 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 KE foods and are used in dishes as well as desserts and drinks. Fruits have been the first choice of food in Kel-Elemi due to the vast amount of fruit plants in the jungles growing in Kel-Elemi, 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 Kel-Elemi without eating fish.
Dishes in Kel-Elemi
Yagalom
Yagalom is a very popular and common meal in Kel-Elemi 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 Kel-Elemites. It is sometimes accompanied by Qkaar or Controvil sauce, as well as seaweed in some regions. In Sarainada region, Eastern Annanela, Baked yagalom is commonly eaten however some people from Corralith and Keral consider this slanderous to food in general.
Bakahari
Bakahari is a staple of Kel-Elemi 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 Oleic 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 Kel-Elemi (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 Bakahari to students in universities in Kel-Elemi Law. Also, soldiers of the Kel-Elemi United Army eat it as part of their rations.
Kare-vol
Kare-vol 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 seafoods such as crab meat, salmon, shrimp and octopus, scrambled egg, beef and chicken broth, among others, are used as toppings. Qkaar sauce is sometimes added, especially in Central Corralith. Its versatility as a meal, being prepared in so many ways makes it a common dish however some meals may be sub par due to poor ingredients.
