Hey everyone, it’s me, Dave, welcome to our recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, malabar kozhi pidi (rice dumplings in soupy chicken curry). One of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
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Malabar Style Kozhi Pidi Recipe is a Kerala delicacy that consists of soft rice dumplings cooked in a roasted coconut chicken curry. It is makes a perfect one dish meal as it contains rice as well as chicken in one dish that will fill you up without any accompaniments. A dish that has its origin from Kanaya Cuisine.
To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook malabar kozhi pidi (rice dumplings in soupy chicken curry) using 21 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Malabar Kozhi Pidi (rice dumplings in soupy chicken curry):
- Get 1 kg Whole Chicken
- Make ready 1 & 1/2 cup Riceflour
- Make ready 2 tsp Fennel seeds
- Make ready 1 finely chopped onion
- Prepare 3 cups Water
- Prepare 1 cup Sliced onion
- Make ready 2 tbsp Garam masala
- Get 1 tbsp Chicken masala
- Make ready 1 tbsp Turmeric powder
- Take 2 tbsp Red chilli powder
- Get 3 tbsp Coriander powder
- Get 3/4 th cup Fresh coriander leaves
- Take 1/2 '' ginger
- Get 3-4 cloves garlic
- Prepare 2 green chillies
- Get 2 Dry red chillies
- Get 2 tsp Mustard seeds
- Prepare 10 Curry leaves
- Take 4 tbsp Coconut Oil
- Get 3/4 th cup Coconut milk
- Take As per taste Salt
Add over the Chicken and Dumplings. While serving, place the reserved chicken curry separately so that it may be poured over the 'Kozhi pidi' as desired. Or you can also pour it over the entire plated Kozhi pidi, together. Switch off the flame and add coconut milk and mix well.
Instructions to make Malabar Kozhi Pidi (rice dumplings in soupy chicken curry):
- Let's get started with one of the yummy traditional kerala recipes. Firstly marinate the cleaned and washed chicken with salt, garam masala and chicken masala. Keep it aside for 30 minutes.
- Now we need to prepare that is the rice dumplings. In a pot boil water with salt, chopped onions and fennel seeds.
- Once the water starts boiling reduce the flame and add the rice flour. Keep on stirring continuously so that no lumps are formed. Once everything mix well, switch off the flame and cover the pot, keep aside for 10 minutes. This helps the rice flour to cook in the steam from the covered pot.
- After the rice flour mixture cools a bit, knead it for 5-10 minutes and make small grape sized balls. Once all balls are ready keep them aside.
- Now time to make malabar style chicken curry. Take a thick bottom deep pan. Heat oil on medium flame. Add mustard seeds, curry leaves and red chillies.
- Once the mustard starts to crackle add the sliced onions, saute and cook till they turn nice pink and translucent.
- By the time onions turn pink, we will make green paste with coriander leaves, ginger, garlic, green chillies, coriander powder, haldi powder, red chilli powder and garam masala.
- Add water to all this and grind everything to a fine smooth paste.
- Now into the translucent turned onions add the marinated chicken and green paste.Give everything a nice mix and cook on low flame till the chicken is half done
- Then add water and coconut milk. Mix and continue cooking on low flame for 5 minutes.
- Now into the chicken gravy add the rice flour dumplings, mix well and continue cooking on low flame. Cook until the chicken is completely done and rice dumplings are nicely soaked in masala gravy.
- Garnish with coriander leaves and serve it hot, it's a whole meal in itself. However you can accompany this dish with rice, chapati or appam.
Knanaya style pidi is served with varutharacha kozhi curry. Traditionally, pidi is associated with baby shower ie when the daughter-in-law is sent to her parents house for delivery, it is customary for the. Savoury version of Pidi (Rice dumplings) was something new to me. We make a sweet version of it called as Unda Payasam as evening snack. The very first time I had savoury/spicy pidi was in Bombay, at one of our family friend's house.
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