Must-Try Culinary Delights From Tamil Nadu

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Uttapam

Uttapam is a thick pancake-like dish that is made with fermented lentils and rice batter topped with chopped veggies and served with chutney.

Idli

It is a popular dish made from fermented rice and lentil batter generally soft and fluffy in texture served with various chutneys and sambar.

Pongal

Pongal is a traditional dish made from lentils and rice that are cooked together in boiling milk seasoned with ghee, pepper and cumin.

Chicken Chettinad

It is made by marinating chicken in yoghurt, red chilli, turmeric paste, kalpasi, poppy seeds and coconut paste and then cooked into gravy prepared with onions, tomatoes and spices.

Paruppu Payasam

Paruppu Payasam is a traditional South Indian pudding made with moong dal, ghee, jaggery and coconut milk.

Rasam 

A soup prepared with spices using tamarind juice and tomato juice as its main ingredient cooked with various spices like cumin, pepper and garlic.

Dosa 

It is a thin crispy dish made with fermented rice and lentil batter and served with sambar and coconut chutney.