Chettinadu recipes are one of our favorites. Chettinadu recipes have a nice blend of spices which makes it unique and adds the taste and flavor to the dish.
Mutton takes longer time to cook without pressure cooker. With the pressure cooker 3-5 whistles cooks mutton well done. If the pressure cooker is not used, it has to be cooked for at least an hour.
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Chettinad Special
Egg Masala/ Muttai Thokku
Well, here’s a quick egg masala. Egg is rich in protein and other vitamins and a daily dose is healthy. Here in the US, eggs taste a little different, probably because of what the hens are fed. For a similar taste to India try buying vegetarian fed hen eggs or organic.
Muttai Thokku / Egg Thokku
Egg is rich in protein. Doctor suggests to eat a egg per day. If any one is dieting, a boiled egg an be taken for breakfast. since egg is rich in protein it takes lot of time to digest and makes us not to starve till lunch. A simple egg thokku prepared in tomato.
Chettinad Muttai Kuzhambu / Egg Curry
Chettinadu dishes are very famous for it’s spiciness and aroma. I like the egg to be cooked along with the gray rather than boiling and adding it separately to the gravy.
Brinjal Masala Rice / Spicy Kathirikai Sadam
Masala rice turned nice aromatic with less work. Back in my childhood, when my grand father was alive, we used to have this planted in our farms very frequently. I hated brinjal all my life until I got married and started trying out new recipes on my own. I love brinjal these days and love trying variations. In this recipe since I didn’t have small brinjal, i used eggplant.
Pepper Chicken Fry / Kozhi Milagu Varuval
Pepper is used to treat common cold India. It’s very hard to consume raw pepper, hot pepper rasam or pepper chicken helps in consuming lot of pepper.
If you want more gravy in this recipe dont fry until water is evaporated, fry only till chicken is cooked.
Mushroom Pepper Fry Masala / Kalan Milagu Varuval
Mushroom Pepper Fry is one of the easiest recipes to cook mushroom. It goes every well with chapathi.