Flavours Of India

Do you know that kozhi kuttan is a sumptuous dish of kerala? It is nothing much but a chicken prepared with different varieties of kerala’s herbs and condiments. Just read the following recipe of this splendid dish!

Kozhi Kuttan

Ingredients:

1 ½ kg chicken pieces, 4 tsp salt, 2 ½ cup grated coconut, 1 ½ tsp turmeric powder, 1 tbsp curd, 2 ¼ cup water, 5 whole dry kashmiri red chilies, 16 flakes garlic, 4 tbsp coconut oil, 6 whole dry red chilies, 1 tsp aniseeds, 10 gm chopped ginger, ½ tsp peppercorns, 10 cloves, 2 sticks cinnamon, 3 green cardamoms, ½ tsp cumin seeds, 2lt green chilies, 5 tbsp coriander seeds, 2 medium chopped onions, 2 medium sized pureed tomatoes

Method:

1. Make a paste of 1 tsp turmeric powder, 1 tsp salt, and curd and rub chicken pieces with it. Keep them aside.

2. Extract 1-cup milk from coconut using 1-cup water. Add ¼ cup water to the same coconut and extract ¾ cup thin milk.

3. Put 1 tbsp of oil in a pan and heat it for a minute. Except for onions, tomatoes and chilies roast all the other ingredients. Now grind together all the roasted ingredients to make a nice paste in a grinder by adding water to it.

4. Then heat 3 tbsp of oil in a cooker for 2 minutes and fry onions in the same until they turn golden brown. Add ground paste, turmeric powder and tomato puree with chilies into the same. Cook for about three minutes. Add chicken, salt and mix all the stuff well. Then add coconut milk and stir once.

5. Close the cooker. Bring to full pressure on high heat. Reduce heat and cook for 7 minutes.

6. Remove cooker from heat now and let it cool in a natural way.

7. Open cooker. Stir in thick coconut milk. Serve hot.

Tags: chicken, kerala