The food of Tamil Nadu
9 dishes tied to Tamil Nadu, India: born there, or made its own.
PanchamritaVegetarianपञ्चामृत
🇮🇳 IndiaA sacred blend of five sweet ingredients offered in Hindu and Jain rituals
Sweet or dessert
DosaVegetarianದೋಸೆ
🇮🇳 India and 3 moreA thin, fermented rice and lentil pancake from South India, served hot with chutney and sambar
Main dish, Breakfast, Lunch
AppamVeganஅப்பம்
🇮🇳 India and 1 moreFermented rice and coconut milk pancake from South India and Sri Lanka
Bread, Breakfast, Dinner
PuttuVeganപുട്ട്
🇮🇳 India and 2 moreSteamed cylinders of rice flour and coconut, served hot for breakfast
Main dish, Breakfast
UpmaVegetarian
🇮🇳 India and 1 moreA soft, savoury porridge made from roasted semolina or rice flour
Main dish, Breakfast, Dinner
Parotta
🇮🇳 India and 5 moreLayered flatbread from South India, soft and flakey, made with refined flour
Bread, Breakfast, Lunch
Puran PoliVegetarian
🇮🇳 IndiaSweet stuffed flatbread enjoyed at festivals and special occasions in India
Bread, Lunch, Dinner
KozhukattaVegetarianകൊഴുക്കട്ട (Malayalam), கொழுகட்டை (Tamil)
🇮🇳 India and 1 moreSteamed rice flour dumplings filled with sweet coconut and jaggery
Sweet or dessert, Breakfast, Snacks
Kottu rotiකොත්තු රොටි
🇱🇰 Sri Lanka and 1 moreSri Lankan street dish of chopped roti stir-fried with meat, egg, vegetables and spices
Main dish, Dinner, Lunch
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Parotta: Amanbedi1, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Appam: Jomesh at Malayalam Wikipedia, CC BY 3.0, source
- Dosa: Roland, CC BY 2.0, source
- Upma: Intodustin, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Panchamrita: Skubydoo, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Puttu: Mathew Jibin, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Puran Poli: No machine-readable author provided. Pamri assumed (based on copyright, Public domain, source
- Kozhukatta: Jayashree Govindarajan, CC BY 2.0, source
- Kottu roti: Unknown author, Public domain, source