Chicken
Chicken stew
Mild coconut-milk chicken stew with potato and carrot — the classic partner to appam.
About
Chicken stew (ishtu) cooks chicken and vegetables in thin coconut milk with pepper, clove, and cinnamon rather than heavy chilli. Syrian Christian and statewide breakfast tables serve it with appam, idiyappam, or bread.
Course
Breakfast / main
Region
Statewide
Typically with
Appam, idiyappam, bread
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