Chettinad (Karaikudi) Recipes

Published 2012-Mar-15 Updated 2017-Sep-08

(Chettinad Cuisine, Chettinad Samayal)

Chettinad is a region comprising of nearly 75 villages in sivagangai and pudukottai districts of Tamilnadu. Chettinad cuisine is supposed to be the most aromatic and spiciest cuisine in South India. it is well known for using so many variety of spices which are used to make the fresh ground masala and used in the dishes. Chettinad cuisine is famous for the spicy non vegetarian dishes made with fish, crab, shrimp, chicken and goat (mutton). People in chettinad, use the combination of green chillies, dried red chillies and black popper (peppercorn) in such a way that the dishes are so spicy but at the same time very tasty. There are also popular vegetarian chettinadu recipes like the kuzhipaniyaram, paal paniyaram, vellai kurma, kaikari pirattal etc.

Chettinad Non-Vegetarian Curries and Dry Sides

Pepper Chicken	12 Spice Fish Curry	Egg Masala	Kozhi Rasam
Kozhi Kulambu	Mutton Curry	Eral Thokku	Nattu Kozhi Uppu Varuval
Nandu Varuval (Crab Fry)	Crab Kurma	Indian Style Omelette	Sura Puttu
Karivepillai Kozhi Varuval	Mutton Sukka

Chettinad Vegetarian Curries and Dry Sides

Chettinad Mushroom	Ennai Kathrikai	Poondu Vengaya Kulambu	Kadalai Kuzhambu
Chettinad Vellai Kurma

Chettinad Entrees

White Rice (Steamed Rice)	Kozhi Biriyani	Kuzhipaniyaram	Banana Dosai
Pal Paniyaram	Paal Kozhukattai

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Comments (32)

Raja Catering (September 8, 2017)

hi,,thanks for sharing the blog!

Dahlia Twinkle (September 8, 2017)

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kannan (November 5, 2016)

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Herc (August 29, 2016)

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Dahlia (S.I.R. Author) (August 31, 2016)

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Dahlia (S.I.R. Author) (June 7, 2016)

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Palani raj.M (February 27, 2016)

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Dahlia (S.I.R. Author) (February 28, 2016)

I am not a chef. Just a simple home cook.

radhika sudhakar (July 29, 2015)

I like chenadu samial like chekan kadai ,muttai masala,muttion grave also i like so i need defrant type of recipe in cheaken,mutton,egg,era,fish. Thanking you

Dahlia (S.I.R. Author) (August 1, 2015)

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sivakami (May 31, 2015)

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Dahlia (S.I.R. Author) (June 6, 2015)

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Dahlia (S.I.R. Author) (April 12, 2015)

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ramya,lakshmi,muneera (March 16, 2015)

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Dahlia (S.I.R. Author) (March 17, 2015)

Thank You.

balaji (March 5, 2015)

how to make pal paniyaram

Dahlia (S.I.R. Author) (March 9, 2015)

Please click on the link of Pal Paniyaaram given above to find the detailed recipe...

G.N.Gopal (January 4, 2015)

Hiii...

I am
Executive Chef At Hyderabad, Thanks u for Excellent Recipe of
Chettinad.

Dahlia (S.I.R. Author) (January 5, 2015)

Thanks Chef.

Raj Kumaren (December 7, 2014)

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Dahlia (S.I.R. Author) (April 18, 2013)

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