Essential Grocery List for a South Indian Kitchen
A practical monthly grocery checklist for a Tamil kitchen: rice, dals, spices, oils and the staples you should never run out of.
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Grocery
மளிகை பொருட்கள்
Pick up your monthly grocery along with your fruits and vegetables. Our stores stock the everyday staples a South Indian kitchen depends on: cooking oils, spices and masalas, flours, rava, sugar, jaggery and more.
Brands and pack sizes vary by store.
Kitchen staples
- Sugarசர்க்கரை
- Saltஉப்பு
- Jaggeryவெல்லம்
- Tamarindபுளி
Flours & rava
- Wheat flour (atta)கோதுமை மாவு
- Rice flourஅரிசி மாவு
- Gram flourகடலை மாவு
- Ravaரவை
- Maidaமைதா
Cooking oils
- Groundnut oilகடலை எண்ணெய்
- Gingelly oilநல்லெண்ணெய்
- Coconut oilதேங்காய் எண்ணெய்
- Sunflower oilசூரியகாந்தி எண்ணெய்
Spices & masala
- Turmericமஞ்சள்
- Chilli powderமிளகாய் தூள்
- Coriander powderமல்லி தூள்
- Pepperமிளகு
- Cuminசீரகம்
- Mustardகடுகு
- Fenugreekவெந்தயம்
Breakfast essentials
- Vermicelliசேமியா
- Pohaஅவல்
- Oats
Storing grocery staples
- Keep flours and rava in airtight containers; dry-roasting rava before storing helps it last longer.
- Store oils away from the stove and direct sunlight to slow them going rancid.
- Buy whole spices in smaller quantities and grind as needed for the strongest flavour.