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Tamil Nadu Breakfast

Adai Dosa

Tamil Nadu dosa variant — adai dosa made with multi-dal thick crepe.

⏱ 15 min prep 🍳 20 min cook

Medium

Bihar Breakfast

Makkai Roti Bihar

Thick maize flour flatbread cooked on an iron tawa — the winter breakfast of rural Bihar

⏱ 15 min prep 🍳 20 min cook

Easy

Tamil Nadu Lunch

Tirunelveli Sodhi

Tirunelveli's delicate white coconut milk curry — poured over idiyappam or rice,...

⏱ 15 min prep 🍳 25 min cook

Easy

Tamil Nadu Lunch

Chidambaram Gotsu

Thick tamarind-brinjal side dish from Chidambaram — the only accompaniment for...

⏱ 10 min prep 🍳 30 min cook

Easy

Tamil Nadu Breakfast

Vella Aval

Sweet jaggery flattened rice — the simplest Tamil Nadu temple offering, ready in 10 minutes.

⏱ 5 min prep 🍳 10 min cook

Easy

Bihar Snack

Makhana Raita

Roasted fox nuts in spiced yogurt — Bihar's most elegant cooling accompaniment

⏱ 10 min prep 🍳 10 min cook

Easy

Tamil Nadu Beverage

Kambu Mor Koozh

Pearl millet porridge thinned with buttermilk — the Tamil Nadu farm worker's summer coolant.

⏱ 5 min prep 🍳 20 min cook

Easy

Bihar Beverage

Bihari Lassi

Thick churned yogurt drink with cardamom and saffron — the cooling summer drink of Bihar

⏱ 5 min prep 🍳 5 min cook

Easy

Tamil Nadu Snack

Thavuttu Murukku

Flat disc-shaped murukku made by pressing dough with a thavuttu wooden press — thicker...

⏱ 30 min prep 🍳 25 min cook

Medium

Bihar Snack

Bihari Chivda

Spiced flattened rice with nuts and curry leaves — the Bihari Diwali snack mix

⏱ 15 min prep 🍳 15 min cook

Easy

Tamil Nadu Lunch

Vanjaram Varuval

Seer fish pan-fry — thick kingfish steaks fried in sesame oil until a dark charred crust forms.

⏱ 20 min prep 🍳 15 min cook

Easy

Kerala Lunch

Chicken Stew Kerala

Classic Kerala dish — chicken stew kerala with coconut milk.

⏱ 20 min prep 🍳 35 min cook

Medium