Pakki Chicken Biryani (mummy's recipe)

This is my mother-in-law's recipe for pakki biryani. Here the chicken is cooked separately and then added to the rice and cooked together. This takes about an hour and a half from start to finish.

Spicy Chicken Roast A La Goa

A special occasion meal because of the time to prepare, the chicken roast was usually the chief guest at sit-down dinner which few of us could get up from easily. Accompanied by heavily buttered bread, and wine (for the adults), the meal finished off with caramel custard or the biscuit layered pudding.

Chettinad Pepper Chicken

Peppery hot, this chicken dish smells of madras. Really good with noolputtu - or idiappams. If you prefer to have it drier, you can boil off the excess water and get a thicker gravy.