Recipes from the Kerala Kitchen – Malabar Pathiri and Nadan Chicken Curry

• Rice flour – 2 cups
• Water – 2 cups
• Salt to taste

How To Make:

• Roast the rice flour for 5 minutes on low flame.
• Let it cool, then, sieve the flour and keep aside.
• Take a saucepan and boil 2 cups of water.
• Add salt and roasted rice flour to the pan and mix well.
• Make a dough (like you make for puri or chapati)
• Grease your palm with coconut oil. Make small-sized balls from the dough.
• Roll the ball using a chapati maker or a chapati roller so that you get a thin pathiri.
• Heat a tawa on medium flame.
• Keep the pathiri on it.
• Keep rotating the pathiri till bubbles start forming on its surface.
• Serve with chicken curry

2. Nadan Chicken Curry

You can have the above Malabar Pathiri with this Nadan Chicken Curry.

Preparation Time: 40 to 50 minutes

Serves: 4 to 6

Ingredients:

• Chicken – 1/2 kg
• Red chilli powder – 4 tablespoons
• Coriander powder – 2 tablespoons
• Turmeric powder – 1 tablespoon
• Chicken masala (homemade or readymade packet ) – 2 tablespoons
• Garam masala powder – 1 tablespoon
• Black pepper powder – 1 tablespoon
• Coconut oil – 1 glass
• Thick coconut milk – 1 cup
• Onions – 2 (sliced)
• Tomato – 1 (sliced)
• Ginger paste – 1 tablespoon
• Garlic paste – 1 tablespoon
• Green chilli paste – 1 tablespoon
• Curry leaves – 4 sprigs
• Salt to taste

How To Make:

• Clean and cut the chicken into small pieces.
• Take a bowl and add red chilli powder, coriander powder, turmeric powder, chicken masala and salt and mix well.
• Add chicken to the mixture and marinate for half an hour.
• Take a pan and keep it on medium flame.
• Once the pan becomes heated, add coconut oil to it.
• Add the onions to oil and sauté until they become brown.
• Add ginger paste, green chilli paste, and garlic paste.
• Add sliced tomatoes and mix well.
• Then add the marinated chicken mixture to the pan.
• Cook the chicken for approximately 10 minutes.
• After the chicken is cooked 3/4, add thick coconut milk to the pan.
• Add garam masala and pepper powder to the chicken.
• Add curry leaves.
• Adjust the salt to your taste.
• Cover the pan and cook again for approximately 5 minutes.
• Nadan Chicken Curry is ready.
• Serve with Malabar Pathiri.

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