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This decoction is
added to milk with sugar to make a frothy cup of coffee. The brew of
the coffee lures people to have it. Breakfast consists of Idly (Steamed
rice cakes), Vada (made from lentils and fried), Dosai (a pancake
prepared from rice batter), Pongal ( a rice mashed with lentils and
seasoned with cashew nuts, pepper, ghee and cumin seeds), Upma (
semolina cooked with mustard, cumin seed , dry lentils and pepper). All
these dishes are eaten with coconut chutney, mulaga podi and sambar.
Elaborate
Lunch
Meals or Lunch comprises of cooked rice with various vegetable dishes,
chutneys, Sambar, Rasam and curd. A non-vegetarian lunch comprises of
curries cooked with chicken, mutton or fish and the meals are always
associated with crisp papads or appalams.
Chettinad cuisine of
Tamil Nadu is a specialty and is a delight for people who love spicy
and hot non-vegetarian food. The chettinad food has numerous variations
of mutton, chicken dishes and fish. Especially, the pepper chicken is
cooked well. The Biriyanis is associated with paya.
Sweets
and Savories
The sweets and savories are prepared during festivals and functions.
Their sweets are an elaborate procedure. Almost all the sweets include
milk. Some of the prominent sweet prepared during festivals is the
Payasam. This is a sweet prepare in milk, sugar and semolina or milk,
rice and sugar. Besides these there are various other sweets such as
Kesari, Rava Laddoo, Athirasam, Boondi Laddoo, Jhangri, Mysore pak,
Coconut Burfi, Bassondi, Akara vadisal, Sweet Panniyaram, Suiyam and
Milk Khova. Savories are Murukku, Thenguzal, Manoharram, Mixture, Kara
Seva, Kara Boondi, and many more.
Tamil Nadu is a very
old state and its cuisines have also been followed in the similar
pattern for centuries. Moreover, the south Indian food is popular in
all parts of the country.
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