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Cuisine In Chennai
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Tamilnadu is well known for its hospitality and traditional food varieties. The ancient rulers of Tamilnadu such as Chera, Chola, Pandiya and Pallava kings had established Annadana Chatrams (free food centers) in every town where the food was served free of cost to the needy.
Even today temples in Tamilnadu serve food to the people free of cost. Chennai Cuisine offers plethora of varieties and Chennai offers good south Indian cuisine. Chennai cuisine offers a number of delicious food items for both vegetarian as well non-vegetarian food lovers.
Rice is the staple food of Tamilnadu. Due to this reason one can find rice in some form or the other in most of the south Indian dishes. A typical South Indian cuisine break fast consists of idly, dosai, upma, pongal, poori and kichadi.
Idly is a boiled rice cake made from batter consisting of rice and lentils. The idly batter is prepared in the previous day and kept for fermentation for several hours before use. Dosa is a pancake prepared in the same type batter as idly. |
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Both idly and dosa are served with chatni (a ground paste consisting of coconut, green chilly, roasted Bengal gram and seasoned with mustard seeds) and sambar. Don’t forget to ask Mulga Podi (a powder of chilies and grams) which doubles the taste of Chennai cuisine.
Upma is prepared by cooking semolina and seasoned with fried small onions, green chilies optionally with vegetables such as carrot and tomato. Pongal is a delicious rice dish cooked along with lentil and seasoned with ghee, cashew nuts and pepper. |
The other Chennai Cuisine break fast items include Appam, Uthappam, Adai, Poori Masal, Vadakari, etc. No South Indian Cuisine breakfast ends without serving the unique south Indian filter coffee. The coffee powder is prepared after roasting the coffee seeds in a specified temperature.
Chennai cuisine lunch is very famous and there are several items served during the lunch. As the rice is the staple food of this region rice it is a prominent ingredient in all south Indian lunch menus. The typical lunch menu consists of steamed rice floppy Sambar, Rasam, curry, Cootu, Applam, Payasam and Vadai.
Some times a sweet is also added in the lunch menu. Finally, the course is completed with a banana and betel leaves and nuts. In weddings and other occasions, south Indian cuisine is paid much attention. In a typical south Indian wedding delicious food varieties are served throughout the wedding procedure.
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