Chicken chukka – Tharamel style!

Tharamel is our ancestral house in a sleepy town, Mavelikkara in Kerala. Of course, memories of that place are the best but I have no recollection of the taste of all the food that my grandma made other than it was heaven and I always ended up spending most afternoons totally overfed and dizzy withContinue reading “Chicken chukka – Tharamel style!”

Chettinad chicken curry

Chettinad chicken curry – On Sunday,  mum marched into the study where I was finishing some work and loudly proclaimed – main chettinad bana rahi hoon, video lena hai to abhi aana padega!! I said, maa, dhamki kyun se rahi hai, abhi se star jaise tevar Anyway, maa ne bulaya and I dutifully followed forContinue reading “Chettinad chicken curry”

Chettinad pepper fry

Chettinad Chicken pepper fry –This is one of my fav dry chicken recipes, cooks in a jiffy. Love the flavour of pepper. Goes very well with chilled beer, espc on this weather!!!! Marinade chicken with turmeric pd, salt.Dry roast and grind handful of coriander seeds and  peppercorns each, 1tsp cumin seeds, 2 red chillies.Fry gree Continue reading “Chettinad pepper fry”