Food Talk: Chicken tikka, the Chettinad style
Nothing can match the allure of the Chettinad chicken thondai in a tikka garb
Updated At : 05:38 AM Jul 19, 2026 IST
Chettinad Kozhi Thondai. Istock
Surprises never cease. Organic, we thought, was a fad, like vegan, that translated as predictably insipid food. Healthy, maybe, but jaggery coating the bitter pill didn’t help much. We were, much to our unalloyed delight, proved wrong at a recent lunch we had at Khan Market’s Organic Bistro, the brainchild of Deepak Gupta, sometime engineer and now a full-time organic food evangelist from Chandigarh. A dish that stole our heart was Chettinad chicken tikka masala. It’s been given this name with good reason.
