Try millet ‘dosai’, ‘ bise bele bath’ and ‘kara adai’ at the newly-opened Zodiac restaurant in Tirupur
The HinduThinly sliced, spicy, and crispy — we are staring at a plateful of potato kuchi chips that got polished off in no time. Over plates of mutton chinthamani where diced, mutton fidget along with chopped red chillies, and kalan milagu perattal that sets your taste buds on fire, Chef Saravanan Thangarasu talks about curating a locavore menu alongside global cuisines to offer a taste of home-grown flavours. or sweet-spicy-tangy kathirikai gothsu, a perfect side dish for idli, dosa or pongal,” he asks before showing us a platter of freshly-plucked mudakathan, perandai and karpooravalli greens that go into the making of a tangy chutney while the fresh basil is used to make the flavourful chinna vengaya poondu kuzhambu. Chef Saravanan has also experimented with millets, so you will find millet pancakes, kara adai, saamai bisi bele bath and many varieties of millet dosas on the menu. We avoid preservatives and replace white sugar with palm jaggery.” Among starters, we also try prawns tossed in curry leaves paste and crisp baby corn fries that make for crunchy bites.
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