Saturday, August 22, 2009

KUNHI PATHAL / KUNHI PATHIRI / KOZHI PIDI

Ingredients
Chicken :1/2 kg ( cut in to chilly pieces)
onions :3nos

tomato :2nos
green chillies : 2
garlic paste :1 tsp
ginger paste :1 tsp
garammasla : 1 tsp
pepper powder : 1 tsp
chilli powder : 1 tsp
coriander powder : 2 tsp
turmeric powder : 1/2 tsp
coriander leaves : 1 tbsp
coconut milk :1 cup thick
shallots / chuvannulli : 5 nos
coconut oil : as required
salt : to taste
For making pidi
Rice powder : 2 cups
water : 1 cup
small onions : 4 nos
cumin seeds : 1/4 tsp
fennel seed : 1/2 tsp
salt : as required
PREPERATION

Make a paste of small onions , cumin seeds and fennel seeds together.Boil water. Add salt. Pour this to the rice powder and mix well . Add the above paste and knead it to make a dough.Apply little oil on palms, make small balls from this and press to make like very small pathiris. Steam them for10 minutes using an Idli vessel or some thing like that.Keep aside.Clean chicken. Mix it with chopped onion,tomato,green chilly crushed,garlic and ginger paste and all the powders and salt. Add little water enough to cook. When it is half cooked add coconut milk and the prepared pidis to it. Cook on a low flame until the chicken is cooked and the gravy is thick. The pidis should be covered with the masalas.Mix with chopped coriander leaves.Heat coconut oil, roast chopped small onion and pour this to the preparation.
Note; Here in thalassery we use to make the dough by grinding rice.

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