Classic Chettinad Kitchen

The Chettinad cuisine is one of South India's best known cuisines and this mouth watering cuisine has carved a niche for itself not only in Tamil Nadu but elsewhere in India and even abroad. Apart from standard and traditional food items, Chettinad cuisine is renowned for its unusual snacks and munchy items that are lip-smacking good. Some of the popular Chettinad dishes are Kandarappam, Ukkarai, Pal Paniyaram, Thenkuzhal, Karupatti Paniyaram, Kavanarisi, and Seepu Seedai to name just a few.

Thursday, September 4, 2008

செட்டிநாடு தக்காளி குழம்பு - Chettinadu Tomato Kuzhambu

Ingredients
Tomato - 1/4 Kg
Onion Medium Sized - 2
Garlic Pods - 6
Cashewnuts - 10
Grated Coconut - 1 cup
Sombu - 1 tsp
Kaskas - 2 tsp
Red Chilli Powder - 2 tsp
Salt to taste

Method :
Heat the oil in a kadai and fry the cashewnuts, sombu, kaskas . Then add onion, garlic, tomato, coconut, chilli powder, salt one after the other. And keep stirring till they are cooked. Let it cool down. After it cools, make a puree of this mixture adding little bit water. Again heat oil in a kadai. Add mustard seeds & urad dal and allow it to splutter. Then add the puree and let it boil.
Cook till it is done. Garnish it with coriander leaves.

Tomato Kuzhambu goes well with rice, idli, dosa, chapathis etc.