How to Prepare Ultimate Kozhi Pidi/Rice Dumplings in Chicken Gravy

Hey everyone, it’s Louise, welcome to our recipe page. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, kozhi pidi/rice dumplings in chicken gravy. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

It is a very delicious and delightful dish used in the middle and northern part of Kerala. Clean chicken and drain water and keep aside. Switch off the flame and add coconut milk and mix well. Kozhi pidi is a traditional dish of kerala.

Kozhi Pidi/Rice Dumplings in Chicken Gravy is one of the most favored of current trending meals on earth. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It is easy, it is quick, it tastes delicious. They are fine and they look fantastic. Kozhi Pidi/Rice Dumplings in Chicken Gravy is something which I have loved my entire life.

To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook kozhi pidi/rice dumplings in chicken gravy using 31 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Kozhi Pidi/Rice Dumplings in Chicken Gravy:

1. Prepare For Gravy
2. Take 500 gms Chicken -
3. Make ready 2 Onion - medium sliced
4. Get 1 Ginger-Garlic crushed - tblpsn
5. Get 2 Green chilli - sliced
6. Get 1 tspn Red chilli powder -
7. Get 1 tspn Coriander powder -
8. Make ready 1/4 tspn Turmeric powder -
9. Make ready 1 1/4 tspns Garam masala powder -
10. Prepare 1/4 tspn Fennel Powder -
11. Make ready 3/4 cup coconut milk -
12. Prepare Curry leaves
13. Take Salt
14. Prepare Oil
15. Take chicken To marinate
16. Make ready 1 1/4 tspns Red chilli powder -
17. Prepare 1 tspn Coriander powder -
18. Prepare 1/4 tspn Turmeric powder -
19. Get 1 tspn Ginger garlic paste -
20. Make ready Salt
21. Get To temper the curry
22. Take Oil
23. Take 1/4 tspn Mustard seeds -
24. Take 2 or 3 red chilli Dry -
25. Prepare 1 sprig Curry leaves -
26. Make ready rice / To make dumplingspidi
27. Make ready 1 1/4 cups Rice Flour -
28. Prepare 1/4 cup coconut Grated -
29. Take 1/2 tspn Fennel seeds - crushed finely
30. Take Salt
31. Make ready 1 1/4 cups water Boiling -

Tip the whole mixture in to a large bowl, add salt and mix well. Add the rice powder and mix well using hands until you get a dough that. When its done, drop dumplings (tiny rice balls)one by one into the coconut milk and stir. Savoury version of Pidi (Rice dumplings) was something new to me.

Steps to make Kozhi Pidi/Rice Dumplings in Chicken Gravy:

1. Marinate the chicken pieces with ingredients listed under for marination and keep for 1 hr.
2. Heat oil in a pan.Add sliced onion and saute till they become light brown.Now add crushed ginger garlic,green chilli and curry leaves.Saute till the raw smell goes.Now add in red chilli powder,corinader powder,turmeric powder and garam masala powder.Saute for few seconds.Then add marinated chicken pieces.Sprinkle enough salt.Mix well.Cover and cook in medium heat for 5 mints.
3. Meanwhile we can make rice dumplings/pidi.Take rice flour,grated coconut crushed fennel and salt in a bowl.Add in boilng water little by little and mix the flour using a spoon/spatula.Keep on adding water little by little untill the rice flour attains the desired consistency.The dough should be soft but not sticky.(usually the amount of water we need is equal to the amount of rice flour thet we use.)Now when the dough is still warm,knead it to amooth dough using your hand.Now make…
4. Now see if the chicken needs some water for the gravy.If so add 1/4 cup of water to it.Cook for another 2-3 mints.Then add the rice dumplings on top of the chicken curry.Cover and cook again.At this stage don't mix the gravy with spoon(the rice dumplings will break).Cover and cook in medium flame till the gravy thickens and the rice dumplings are also cooked.Now add thick coconut milk and sprinkle fennel powder.Mix very gently.Cover and let it sit for few seconds.Remove from fire.
5. Now heat little oil in another pan.Splutter mustard seeds.Add in dry red chilli and curry leaves.Pour this into the gravy.Keep it covered for 5 mints.Serve hot.

When its done, drop dumplings (tiny rice balls)one by one into the coconut milk and stir. 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. But there the pidi was served on the side with chicken curry.

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