Muthu’s Curry - Chicken Chukka Varuval

Source: https://wonderwall.sg/food/muthus-curry-tip-soak-fish-head-in-lemon-turmeric-water

Muthu’s curry is a Chettinadu cuisine restaurant located on 138 Race Course Rd, #01-01, Singapore 218591. The Race course road is a parallel street to the busy Serangoon road. Even on weekends, this road typically remains less conjected and easy to navigate. This road is littered with Indian restaurants that cater slightly up-market compared to some of the other eateries in Little India. There are a few more notable Tamilnadu, Chettinadu restaurants along this road, these include Gayathri, Anjappar, Sakunthala’s and Banana Leaf Apolo.

Despite the many options, we here at Sinra recommend Muthu’s Curry. We’ve been a consistent customer between 2019 till early 2023. The only reason we’ve stopped going is because we’ve moved from Singapore.  

At quick glance, the restaurant is well decorated with a large central kitchen where some of the precooked food is displayed and where there seems to be an oven. Around this central kitchen is a vast amount of seating area. There is a section of the floor space dedicated to hosting events.

Source: https://www.muthuscurry.com/outlets

On the Muthu’s curry’s website, it states that the restaurant started in 1969 by their founder Mr. Ayyakkanu and his innovation was and currently is their signature dish - fish head curry. You will see this dish being ordered on many tables if you head down to the restaurant. Its certainly a dish for sharing as it comes in a large serving. However, we didn’t try this dish and in this blog, we are recommending another dish from them.

We recommend the “Chicken Chukka Varuval”. The dish is a spicey boneless chicken stirfry with a combination of spices, dried chilli, onions and etc. The result is a rich flavour that we absolutely love. We recommend getting this dish to share and ordering a rice set. Muthu’s curry have two types of rice sets. Both come with a cabbage kootu which is cabbage cooked with small green chilis and lentils, and the second is a tamanrind infused eggplant dish. The only difference in the sets are the rice types. Its either with white rice or pulau rice. We like both combos, so pick whichever. The awesome part of this is that the rice and the two vegetables are refillable. They typically include a small basket of appalams (papadams).

We will refrain from mentioning the prices of these dishes and the prices have been increasing through the 3years that we’ve been dining there. This is however, inline with the remaining restaurants along race course road as well as some other services in Singapore post pandemic.

Here is a picture of the food. 


The meal served on banaleaf thats cut to size of the serving plate. On the plate are the Briyani rice, Chicken Chukka Varuval, the Cabbage Kootu, the Eggplant and some Appalam.


Close up of the Chicken Chukka Varuval.


You will also get a small bowl of Chicken curry.


Bowl of Appalam (papdam) served as appetizer as soon as you order your food and while you wait for your food to be served. We usually munch little while we wait for our food and eat it along with our main meal.

Try it out and let us know if you like it too.

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