• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • About Us
  • Home
  • Recipe Index
  • Contact

A Little Bit of Spice logo

menu icon
go to homepage
search icon
Homepage link
  • About Us
  • Home
  • Recipe Index
  • Contact
×

Home » Chicken

September 19, 2012 Chicken

Kerala Style Pepper Chicken  (Nadan Kurumulaku Kozhi)

Jump to Recipe Print Recipe Jump to Video

Chicken pieces cooked and stir-fried with pepper and spices. It is a perfect preparation to serve to your guests along with rice or chapati (Indian bread). Never replace whole black pepper with pepper powder in this recipe. It is an easy recipe for Kerala pepper chicken fry preparation.

Kerala Style Pepper Chicken (Nadan Kurumulaku Kozhi)

Chicken pieces cooked and stir-fried with pepper and spices. It is a perfect preparation to serve to your guests along with rice or chapati (Indian bread). It is an easy recipe for Kerala pepper chicken fry preparation.

For more Kerala chicken recipes, check out

Chicken tomato roast
Chicken Curry
Chicken Curry with grinded coconut
Chicken curry with coconut milk
Chicken Stew
Chicken cutlet
Chicken fry
Chicken biriyani

Print Recipe Pin Recipe
1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (136 votes, average: 4.22 out of 5)
Loading...
Prep Time 10 minutes mins
Cook Time 50 minutes mins
Total Time 1 hour hr
Course Side Dish
Cuisine Indian, kerala
Servings 6 serving
Calories 379 kcal

Ingredients
  

Marination

  • 1 Kilogram chicken
  • 1 ½ Teaspoons pepper powder
  • ½ Teaspoon turmeric powder
  • 1 ½ Tablespoons lemon juice
  • 1 teaspoon salt

Masala

  • 4 Onions (medium)
  • 1 ½ Tablespoons ginger , crushed
  • 1 ½ Tablespoons garlic , crushed
  • 3 green chilli , slit lengthwise
  • 2 ½ Tablespoons black pepper Whole
  • 1 ½ Teaspoons garam masala
  • 1 ½ Teaspoon fennel powder ( Perinjeerakam powder)
  • 2 sprig curry leaves
  • 3 tbsps coconut oil
  • 1 cup Small Thin square size coconut slices (thengakothu, optional)
  • 2 teaspoon vinegar (optional)
  • salt

Instructions
 

  • Marinate the cleaned chicken pieces with salt, pepper powder, turmeric powder and lemon juice. Keep it aside for 30 minutes.
    Chicken pieces cooked and stir-fried with pepper and spices. It is a perfect preparation to serve to your guests along with rice or chapati (Indian bread).
  • Crush the whole black pepper and keep it aside. Adjust black pepper according to your spice tolerance level.
  • Thinly slice onions and green chilly. Grind ginger and garlic into a fine paste. Thinly slice coconut into square bite-size pieces. Check the notes for details on coconut bite-sized pieces.
    Chicken pieces cooked and stir-fried with pepper and spices. It is a perfect preparation to serve to your guests along with rice or chapati (Indian bread).
  • Heat 2 tsps oil in a pan and fry coconut pieces until it becomes golden brown color. Keep it aside.
  • In a kadai/pan, heat the oil. When hot enough, add onions and curry leaves and saute well. Adding salt, helps the onion to get cooked fast.
  • When the onions are brown, add the ginger, garlic and green chilli. Saute well till the aromatics release their flavor.
    Chicken pieces cooked and stir-fried with pepper and spices. It is a perfect preparation to serve to your guests along with rice or chapati (Indian bread).
  • Add garam masala, fennel powder and crushed black pepper. Saute well.
    Chicken pieces cooked and stir-fried with pepper and spices. It is a perfect preparation to serve to your guests along with rice or chapati (Indian bread).
  • Add marinated chicken pieces and stir around till the chicken pieces are well coated with the masalas. Don't add water.
    Chicken pieces cooked and stir-fried with pepper and spices. It is a perfect preparation to serve to your guests along with rice or chapati (Indian bread).
  • Cover and cook for 20 minutes.
  • Now open the lid and cook until the water evaporates. Add fried coconut bite-size pieces.
    Chicken pieces cooked and stir-fried with pepper and spices. It is a perfect preparation to serve to your guests along with rice or chapati (Indian bread).
  • Add 2 - 3 tsps oil and saute it until it gets roasted/fried well. If you like extra sourness, add vinegar. I like to add 2-3 teaspoon of vinegar at the end for sourness. It's optional. Add it, only if you want it more sour. Best served with rice 🙂

Video

Kerala Style Pepper Chicken (Nadan Kurumulaku Kozhi)

Notes

You can use either fresh coconut square bite-sized pieces or frozen ones. Don't go for dried coconut. I have tried using both fresh and frozen ones.
Thighs and mixed chicken curry cut pieces will work out for this. I don’t prefer boneless breast piece. It doesn’t have much fat on it. Boneless thigh piece is fine. Just cut it into 2-inch pieces and use it.
This is a traditional Kerala style chicken in spicy brown gravy preparation. I have tried to keep the recipe simple by using simple ingredients, which are most of the time readily available in our kitchens and the method to this flavorful delicacy is very intuitive and easy to follow.Tastes best when prepared with chicken with bone.
Though quite a few spices are used in this gravy, peppercorn is the magic ingredient here which adds a punch to the recipe. But strongly recommend you not to skip any of the ingredients listed.

Nutrition

Calories: 379kcalCarbohydrates: 15gProtein: 17gFat: 28gSaturated Fat: 17gCholesterol: 60mgSodium: 528mgPotassium: 398mgFiber: 5gSugar: 5gVitamin A: 150IUVitamin C: 25mgCalcium: 55mgIron: 1.8mg
Pin Recipe Share on Facebook
Share on Twitter Share on Yummly
Tried this recipe?Let us know how it was!

More Chicken

  • This is an image of indian chicken puffs with tea on the side, ketchup as dipping and some tapioca chips
    Indian Style Chicken Puff Pastry
  • Chicken curry well flavored with roasted coconut and spices. This recipe is a Malabari delicacy. It goes well with pathiri, kerala porotta, any sort of rice variants (ghee rice, pulao, normal rice), chapathi, appam or any other Indian breads.
    Kerala Chicken Curry with Roasted Coconut (Varutharacha Chicken Curry)
  • This is a very simple variation of the famous American Potato Hash. We've made it into an Indian style that all of our friends love. It is made of very simple ingredients that you have at home.
    Potato Hash with Mushrooms, Chicken and Egg – Indian Style
  • Chicken marinated in yogurt and spices and then baked in an oven. This Indian Tandoori Chicken In Oven recipe is straightforward to make at home with minimal ingredients
    Tandoori Chicken In Oven

Primary Sidebar

Top Posts

  • Onam sadya served on banana leaf. Matta rice with avial, sambhar, pachadi, kichadi, olan, kaalan and chips
    God’s Own Feast-ival!
  • Ready to eat, Soya chunks Manchurian Dry
    Soya Chunks Manchurian Dry
  • Chicken curry with semi thick gravy well flavored with spices and coconut milk. It goes well with pathiri, any sort of rice variants ( ghee rice, pulao, normal rice), chapati, parotta/paratha, appam or any other Indian breads.
    Kerala chicken curry with coconut milk (Nadan chicken curry)
  • Kerala Egg Curry With Coconut Milk (Nadan Mutta Curry)
  • Cauliflower / Gobi masala

Footer

Privacy Policy. © 2011 – 2023 A Little Bit of Spice

Made with ♥︎ in California

↑ back to top