Kozhi (Chicken) Varattiyathu

Today is a special day for "Secret of Taste",her first birthday! She is my youngest daughter . Today I wanted to make her more beautiful with this lovely naadan dish,Kozhi Varattiyathu.

Ingredients

1 kg chicken
1/4 kg chopped small onions(Kunjulli)
1tbsp finely chopped ginger
1 tbsp finely chopped garlic
3 green chilies
2 sprigs curry leaves
1 tbsp vinegar
3 tsp coriander powder
1 tsp chili powder
1/2 tsp turmeric powder
1 tbsp garam masala
salt to taste
1/2 cup thick coconut milk
2 tbsp coconut oil

Method

Wash and cut chicken into small pieces .Heat coriander powder,turmeric powder,chili powder and garam masala till its aroma comes out and keep aside.Make a paste with the powders ,vinegar and salt and marinate chicken pieces well with that and leave it for 1 hour.
Heat oil in a pan.Add ginger and garlic and saute well for 2 mins.Add shallots ,green chilies and Curry leaves , saute till it turns brown.Add the marinated chicken into it and cook in a low fire.Once it is half done add the coconut milk and make the fire high and Keep stirring till the gravy is coated with chicken and the oil is separated.
Serve with boiled rice ,Appam or chapathi

Chicken Mappas

I got this recipe from one of the old friday magazine .The orginal recipe was duck mappas and I made an experiment on chicken and comes out well.This goes well with chappathi , appam or boiled rice

Ingredients

1 Kg chicken
50 gms ginger, julienned
50 gms garlic , julienned
50 gms onion., julienned
50 gms shallots sliced
1 tsp garam masala
1tbsp vinegar
2 tbsp coriander powder
1 tsp turmeric powder
1 tbsp chilli powder
salt ,to taste
3 tbsp oil
1 cup coconut milk

Method

Cut chicken into bite-sized pieces.In a pan ,heat oil and saute ginger and garlic.Add the sliced shallots and julienned onion.Add chicken ,garam masala,vinegar,coriander powder,turmeric powder and chilli powder and mix well.Add a cup of water and leave to cook till the chicken is well done .Add coconut milk and allow it to boil for about five minutes.
Garnish with fried curry leaves.

Chicken Curry

Kozhi Palu Kari ,is a chicken curry cooked with coconut milk ,spices and little vinegar for a mouth-watering ,subtle sour flavour.

Ingredients

1 Kg Chicken
250 ml thick coconut milk
salt to taste
3-4 medium sized onion sliced
1 inch piece ginger sliced
6-8 slit green chilies
10-20 curry leaves
1tbsp white Vinegar
2 tbsp coriander power
1 tbsp garam masala

Method

To make coconut milk
Almost any super markets carries coconut milk these days. Simply follow the instructions on the packet to make thick or thin coconut milk.
On the otherhand , pulverize grated coconut with hot water in a blender. Let the mixture sit for few minutes ,then strain through a sieve, pressing down to extract as much as possible and u have coconut milk.

To make garam masala
Itsp pepper,2 pieces cinnamon stick,4 cardamon,2 cloves, ½ tsp aniseed(perumJeerakam),1 star anise(thakolam).Grind all together to make a fine powder.

Clean the chicken ,remove skin and cut into small pieces.In a pan add onion,ginger, greenchili, curryleaves, chicken, coriander powder ,salt and little water.Cook till the chicken is done. Add gram masala and coconut milk powder and mix well .Allow to boil on low flame for 3 minutes,then remove from fire and add vinger and serve hot.
Goes well with Steamed rice,Appam and Idiappam.