Summary:
Chettinad food, if authentic, is a lesson in the way spices can be used in the kitchen. He goes on to say that although most of the spices used in Chettinad cuisine is similar to that used in Kerala, “the use of freshly ground spices, the level of spices used, at which point of the cooking it is used… varies. The soups for the day are Chettinad poondu parippu soup and Chettinad mutton kariveppila soup. For example, a simple curry can have about 18 spices.”However, the spices don’t overwhelm the dishes as I soon discover at Black Pepper’s ongoing Chettinad food festival. The Chettinad food festival is priced at ?599 plus taxes per person..