Tamil Nadu Cuisines

A typical Tamil breakfast consists of Idli or dosa served with sambar and chutney. The dinner or lunch consists of rice with sambar or rasam served with various curries and pickles. Special curries are prepared from various vegetables using enough spices. Tamil people also fond of items, made from chicken and meat. The various types of Tamil recipes are described below.

Tamil Recipes

Dosai : crepes made from a fermented batter of rice and urad dal (gram), and are accompanied by Sambar.

Idli : steamed rice-cakes, prepared from a fermented batter of rice and urad dal (gram), and side-dishes are usually different kinds of chutney or sambhar.

Upma/Uppittu : prepared from wheat (rava), onion, green chillies, and certain spices.

Sambhar : a thick stew of lentils with vegetables and seasoned with exotic spices.

Rasam : lentil soup with pepper, coriander and cumin seeds.

Thayir sadam : steamed rice with curd.

Sevai, Rice noodles, made out of steamed rice cakes. Rice cakes are caste into the tool Sevai Nazhi and pressed to get the rice noodles.

South Indian Coffee : also known as Madras Filter Coffee is a sweet milky coffee popular in Tamil Nadu. It is quite similar to the Cappuccino and Latte varieties of coffee in the United States of America.

Typical Tamil Thali : consists of rice, sambar/rasam, curries, dal and salad.