- Ceylonese Roti : This is from chennai region of india. Here coconut is added along with the dough. It is a leavened bread. Cook in a griddle until brown specks appear on both sides.
- Dosai : South Indian bread. Fenugreek flavoured batter is made with ground rice, urud dal (3:1). It can be stuffed with kheema or potato. Notable variation is oothappam which is more thicker and smaller in radius than dosai.
- Coorgi Roti : Snow white rice flour roti of coorg. Dough is made of rice puree. Cooked like chapathi.
- Idli : Traditional breakfast from south india. Served with sambar and coconut chutney. Batter of rice and spilt black gram, steamed in special moulds.
- Semolina Iddli : Variation of iddli with rava,curd & soda.
- Kanchipuram Iddli : Famous from sri devaraja temple in kanchipura. Each iddli, turmeric colored and tempered, is steamed in bamboo mould lined with turmeric leaves ,weighs 3 pounds(1.5 kg) and is served as an offering.
- Adai : Pancake rich with wide variety of cereals (rice,urud,chenna,moong)and vegetables(onion, garlic ,chilli).Specialty of tamilnadu.
- Pesaraattu : Andhra ‘s dosai made out of green gram savoured with chutney.
- Appam or hoppers : Kerala christian breakfast.Dutch pancakes made with rice ,toddy fermented and prepared in special ‘chatty’(concave cast iron moulds).Often had with mutton stew.
- Iddiappam or string hoppers : Strands of rice noodle, sandwiched, steamed and served with stew. Authentic kerala breakfast.
- Orotti : Chapatti made from a dough of mashed cooked rice .
- Noolputtu : Coorgi version of iddiappam.
- Kadumputtu : Steamed dumplings of rice grains ( ‘thari’) and coconut milk.
- Thaliya Putt : Steamed cake of rice grains (thari) and coconut milk.
- Akki Roti : Coorgi version of orotti.
- Puttu : Kerala steamed breakfast preparation sandwiched with fresh coconut. Made from rice, wheat or ragi. Accompaniment could be ripe bananas, chickpea stew, green gram or fish curry.