Smacking hot Karaikudi style Black peppercorn gravy.

Black Peppercorn kuzhambu / Peppercorn Gravy / Milagu Kuzhambu / Pathiya Kuzhambu / Karaikudi / Chettinad Milagu Kulambu / Kolambu / Kuzhambu / Spicy tangy gravy

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Score: 6.0, Votes: 1

Chettinad cuisine doesn't need much introduction... its widely popular and known for its spice indulgence in any curry. Here is a preparation with mutton / goat meat made with my special chettinad blend. This is close to my chettinad chicken except have made some additions and entire masala is pressure cooked with meat.

Mutton Curry / Mutton Chettinad / Authentic Chettinad Cuisine / Goat Meat Varuval / Mutton Kuzhambu / Lamb / Mutton Masala / Chettinad Masala

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Score: 9.7, Votes: 6

Chettinad cuisine, enjoys a special place among food lovers, let it be a normal veggie dish or sizzling non-veg , they always include a radically distinctive blend of spices covering up the key ingredient, which wakes up your taste buds. Here is one such recipe... mixed vegetables tossed with freshly ground spice blend

Tamil to English ~~~ Kaikari - Vegetables,  Pirattal - Tossed/Stir-fry

KaiKari Perattal / Mixed Vegetable Pirattal / Chettinad Vegetable Curry / Pirrattal / Kaikari Piratal

Traditionally this curry is prepared with mixed vegetables like carrots, potatoes, beans, peas and cauliflower. I've ignored potatoes and beans here to suit my taste. You may also adapt to your needs.

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Score: 9.0, Votes: 1

Inorder to enjoy the true essence of Chettinad cuisine, always prepare the dish with fresh spices and masalas... don't ever compromise over any susbtitutes. This meen kuzhambu is just like any other regular kuzhambu preparation except its made with a fresh blend of spices and sauteed in pure sesame oil which gives life and brings out that finger licking flavour.

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Score: 7.8, Votes: 5

Chicken cooked in special ground curry leaves masala, a popular chettinad pick.

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Score: 6.7, Votes: 3

Kuzhi Paniyaram is a popular Chettinad tiffin item, where fermented rice  and lentil batter mixed with seasoning and steamed in special pans which comes with little golf ball size holes (kuzhi in Tamil). These paniyarams can be made either sweet or savoury. The savoury dish is called Kaara Kuzhi Paniyaram and here is how you make it. (Ponganalu / Pongadalu / Kuzhi appam )

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Score: 7.7, Votes: 3

Most sort white kurma often served as a side for chapatti, iddiappam or appam in chettinad restaurants. This can be either made with meat or mixed vegetables. Here's the mixed vegetable version. (Chettinad White Kurma / Korma)

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Score: 9.3, Votes: 3

White button mushrooms sauteed in spicy chettinad curry. Happened to taste this dish at a local Indian restaurant, since then I was craving for this dish and can't wait to try it out myself. Tried this curry with my own blend of chettinad spices and guess what??? it turned good and the next thing, was to post it here to share with you all. (Mushroom Masala / Kaalan Masala / Mushroom Chettinad / Chettinad Mushroom Curry )

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Score: 5.7, Votes: 9

Spicy Chettinadu meen varuval, a spicy fried fish marinated with a blend of unique southern spices.

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Score: 6.5, Votes: 2

One of the spiciest, oiliest and most aromatic in India, a distinctive culinary style with judicious blend of spices is known as Chettinad cooking. This scrumptious chicken curry gets it flavor from two distinctive ingredients... Kalpasi and Jaathipoo.

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Score: 6.0, Votes: 11