Chettinad cuisine is know for its hot and spicy dishes. One of them is the mutton chukka, which is a traditional mutton curry cooked in the chettinad style. Chukka means dry and the mutton is cooked with a wide array of spices, the most important being the special homemade chettinad spice powder. This yummy preparation can be enjoyed with either plain steamed rice, plain biryani, jeera rice, pulao, dosa, appam, idiyappam, parathas or any indian bread.
