How to Cook Perfect Kozhi Ada (Chicken Hot pockets)

Kozhi Ada (Chicken Hot pockets). Kozhi ada, how to make Malabar style kozhi ada (chicken hot pockets). Kozhi ada is a popular Malabar Muslim snack. During the time of Ramadan; if you are travelling through the National highway and passing through Malabar, kozhi ada is something which you should try, the makeshift food stalls on the roadside at the time of Iftar will be selling hot kozhi adas.

This video explain hoe to make delicious Crispy and Crunchy Malabar Style Kozhi Ada / Chicken hot pockets. You can serve this as a snack, starter / Iftar dish (nombuthura vibhavam). The flavourful chicken filling with the crispy wrapper makes the Kozhi Ada one of the most preferred snacks. You can have Kozhi Ada (Chicken Hot pockets) using 15 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Kozhi Ada (Chicken Hot pockets)

1. It's 1 Cup of Maidah.
2. Prepare of Water.
3. Prepare of Salt.
4. You need 2 Tablespoons of Ghee Dalda / (Vanaspathi).
5. You need 1 Cup of Chicken Cooked.
6. You need 2 of Onions.
7. You need 2 of green Chilli.
8. Prepare 1 Tablespoon of Ginger.
9. Prepare 1 Tablespoon of Garlic.
10. Prepare 10 of Curry Leaves.
11. Prepare 1 Teaspoon of red Chilli Powder.
12. It's 1/2 Teaspoon of Turmeric.
13. Prepare 1 Teaspoon of Pepper Powder.
14. You need 1/2 Teaspoon of Garam Masala.
15. Prepare of Coconut Oil.

Kozhi Ada is a part of the Moplah cuisine of Malabar. Please find the detailed video on. Kozhi ada is the most popular and authentic snack of malabar which is a native of Koilandy (near calicut). In olden days, homemade hot pockets was prepared with sun dried meat for the purpose of long shell life.

Kozhi Ada (Chicken Hot pockets) instructions

1. Make a soft dough out of maidah, using ghee, little salt and water. Keep it aside..
2. Cook the chicken,Adding salt, a pinch of turmeric powder, and pepper powder.Mince the cooked chicken properly..
3. Heat oil in a pan, and saute onions till it becomes golden brown. Add curry leaves, and ground ginger, garlic and green chilllis paste..
4. When the onion starts getting golden brown, add a little turmeric powder, red chilli powder, garam masala, and salt to taste..
5. Once all the spices are blended well in the mixture, add the minced chicken.Saute this on low heat, till the mixture is fully dry.Switch off the stove..
6. Roll out small thin discs out of the dough.Add required chicken filling on one side and fold it from the other side.Seal the edges together in a pattern to form a crescent shape..
7. Heat oil in a pan, and add the adas one by one, and fry on medium heat till slightly golden colour..
8. Note : The oil should be on medium heat.If it's too hot, the dough will be only cooked on the outside, and if it's too low heat, the adas will be too oily..

Kozhi ada / chicken pockets is also prepared with coconut and sugar filling flavored with cardamom powder which is called as sweet ada. Samoosa & chicken hot pockets( kozhi ada) Kozhi Ada is a traditional Malabari snack. Typically Ada is a stuffed dish which can be either fried or steamed. Gazeena shares with us her version of Kozhi Ada which is spicy chicken filling.