What to eat: Authentic Dindigul Biriyani and Mutton kola urundai (Southindian meat balls)
Where: Venu Biriyani Hotel, Dindigul
Verdict: After a lengthy Kerala trip, we reached Madurai last night. As
my wife had other plans for today, I started my lonely journey towards a
town called Dindigul in search of authentic dindigul style Biriyani.
Got into the Erode passenger train from Madurai junction in the morning
for 20₹ ticket. Train was late by 40 mins as usual.
There are 3 options
available for Briyani in this tiny town...
1)Thalapakatti, 2)Ponram and
3)Venu Biriyani.
My heart always beats for venu biriyani.
As soon as the
train reached Dindigul junction, I whizzed towards Venu Restaurant with
the help of Google maps. I didn't had any food in the morning to keep
my apetite just for Biriyani. Reached the resto (called as hotel by the
locals) by noon.
Ordered for quarter mutton biriyani(105₹), mutton
kola(20₹), chicken roll(25₹), mutton chukka(95₹). Quarter Biriyani was
too less, so had to order another quarter and ended the lunch with
quarter white rice which was served alongwith chicken gravy, mutton
gravy, rasam and butter milk. Biriyani was served with dalcha (mutton
bones cooked with dal), chicken/mutton gravy. Dalcha had 2 nalli elumbu
lucky me.
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| Quarter Mutton Biriyani |
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| Mutton Kola Urundai and Chicken Roll |
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| Mutton Chukka |
Mutton kola urundai (Meat balls) were so soft...Never had
such soft kola anywhere in my life and that too for such low cost.
Mutton chukka had tiny pan fried pieces of meat topped with crispy fried
curry leaves
.
Chicken roll was divine. Had Keerai poriyal (Spinach) and Senai kootu (Root Veggie) as sides
for the rice. And then returned back to Madurai in bus for just 28₹.
Overall it was a bulky meaty meal for which 4 hours travel is not bad.
If you ever hit Dindigul, don't miss the yummy Biriyani and kola urundai
in Venu.
