Idly Masala: In south India, Idly is the staple, a healthy dish made every day, sometimes we feel boring to have same Idly and side dish. Variety in that will add some attention to eating, also rest over Idlies can be made usefully into these type of hot and spicy Idli masala, Idly upma and…
Category: Chettinad Cookbook
Our Indian regional recipes always tempt taste buds of food lovers. We have specialities from Chettinad, Tamilnadu, Andhra, Malabar, Rajasthani, Gujarati and many more. This Cookbook from Chettinad is for sharing our home delights and regional cuisines.
Paruppu Thovayal
Paruppu Thovayal: This is very simple and easy recipe with little ingredients, goes well with Rasam and summa Kuzhambu Vathal Kuzhambu. Golden fried toor dal and raw garlic is its unique flavour.Some says this thovayal can be prepared with puffed channa dal, I have never tried because, I like the taste of Toor dal and…
Summa kuzhambu
Summa kuzhambu: Summa Kuzhambu (சும்மா குழம்பு ) in tamil literally means gravy made out of no veggies and just like that you can make this instant gravy. You will find this dish only in Chettinad Kitchen. If you are bored with making rasam often try this,you will like it.Simple and good. This gravy being fed…
Snake gourd Poricha koottu
Snake gourd Poricha koottu: Koottu is mild flavoured recipe,not spicy or tangy,less aqueous than sambar.In chettinad region kootu is made by boiling dal and vegetable separately add sambar powder,salt, ghee and season with cumin seeds, and curry leaves added in, that’s it. This can be made with all vegetables and any dal. Good to feed…
Instant Thovayal
Patchai Thovayal or Avasara Thovayal: This recipe is simply 2 steps to follow and 2 minutes, like noodles, but this is really good for health and yummy too. When the dishes or done with proper concentration and perfect procedure, followed with correct measurement, no doubt it will vanish off by praising your effort, mainly side…
Rice balls/Neer Kozhukkattai
Rice Balls/Neer Kozhukkattai: Kozhukattai is nothing but a rice dumpling, made by steaming freshly ground rice into balls, it can be made as both sweet and salt version. As we know any steamed food is extremely good for health. Here is the salt version.This will be soft and tasty with Kanagambara chutney. Ingredients:…
Ladies finger Pachadi
Ladies finger Pachadi: Pachadi origin chettinad,famous dish made with all type of vegetables like Tomato,Brinjal,Beans,Drumstick,sundakkai ,Ridge Guard etc..along with boiled Toor dal ,Tamarind extract and Tomato.This Pachadi alone satisfy our lunch with steam cooked rice or with Curd rice.Versatile method is followed in other states,in this name Pachadi. Ingredients: Ladies finger 100 gms Onion-chopped-1…
Urad dal chutney
Urad dal chutney : Side dishes make s your main dish fascinating.We like to have different type of chuneys to try with our regular healthy breakfast as Idly or Dosa.What is special today ! Yes try with many varieties of side dishes posted and enjoy your breakfast to spend whole day active.In that category today…
Curry leaves Kuzhambu
Curry leaves Kuzhambu: Normally curry leaves are removed to throw from dishes while eating,to get full nutritional value of curry leaves we prefer to make this delicious healthy kuzhambu. which makes your food both healthy and tasty along with pleasing aroma. Curry leaves is a staple in Indian dishes. Commonly used as seasoning, this leaf…
chettinad chicken varuval- cinnamon flavour
Chicken varuval with cinnamon flavour: We have seen variety of recipes in chicken.This is my Special type of varuval recipe.In this recipe Cinnamon is added in three stages,while Grinding,Seasoning and as Garnishing to enhance its flavour.As mentioned before cooking is an art,colour it with your special ingredients,which is also an aid to improve our health…
Chettinad Cookbook - Learn and Serve 