Irachi Pathiri (Chicken Pathiri)

Ingredients for Irachi Pathiri (Chicken Pathiri):

1. Boneless chicken cut into small pieces – 2 cups

2. Chilli powder – 1 small spoon

    Turmeric powder – ½ small spoon

    Salt – As required

    Vinegar – 1.5 small spoon

3. Oil – As required

4. Onions – 3, finely chopped

    Ginger – 1 big piece crushed

    Garlic crushed – ½ big spoon

    Green chillies – 2 or 3 crushed

5. Garam masala powder – 1 big spoon

    Curry leaves – 1 stalk

6. Coconut scrapped – 1 cup

    Shallots – 4

    Fennel seeds – 2 small spoons

7. Water – 3-4 cups

    Salt – As required

8. Rice powder – 1.5-2 cups

9. Banana leaf – 1

How to prepare Irachi Pathiri (Chicken Pathiri)?

1. Marinate chicken pieces with ingredients no: 2 and fry in hot oil.

2. Chicken pieces should not be well fried.

3. In the remaining oil, add ingredients no: 4 and sauté well.

4. When it’s done, add fried chicken and ingredients no: 5 to it.

5. Mix well the ingredients, add a little water and cook chicken with lid closed.

6. When the content is well mixed and cooked well, take it off from flame.

7. Mix together ingredients no: 6 and mix well.

8. Boil 3 to 4 cups of water, add sufficient salt and add rice powder.

9. Mix it well to prepare the dough for normal pathiri.

10. Also add crushed coconut mixture and mix together.

11. Make lemon sized balls out of it for pathiri.

12. Press each ball using hands or chappatti maker to prepare small pathiris.

13. Continue the process till whole pathiris are prepared.

14. Take a banana leaf and spread a little ghee or oil on its surface.

15. Take one pathiri in your palm, spread a little chicken filling as a layer and place another pathiri on its top.

16. Seal its edges so that the filling is tightly enclosed within two pathiris.

17. Spread each pathiri set in the banana leaf and enclose it in a steamer

18. Now steam cook for a while to get delicious chicken pathiris.

Courtesy: Vanitha Magazine June 1-14, 2016

Read yet another Irachi Pathiri Recipe here.

Read a few more Pathiri recipes. Here is the page link. Click on the images in the gallery to read.