Mirapakaya Kodi Vepudu is a spicy chicken dry saute made with a spicy powder. With this easy recipe, you can learn how to make Andhra Style Chicken Fry.
This is yet another dish from Amma's Kitchen. Since we try to make new dishes for Sunday lunch, our quest to find new recipes is always there. Amma checked her collection and
said she found another Kodi Vepudu from Andhra cuisine. We already have quite a few variations in making Chicken Fry or Kodi Vepudu as we say Telugu.
We have got into the habit of making Biryanis for Sunday Lunch and we either make Chicken Korma or some dry dish. Depending on what type of biryani is made, we take a call. This is mostly done when we make Andhra Kodi Biryani or Nawabi Biryani.
This Mirapakaya Kodi Vepudu as you can see is very spicy as we have used both dry red chili and green chili. Since my family loves spicy food, they enjoyed this a lot. Apart from biryanis, you can also serve this dry roast with Pappu Charu as well. If you are looking for pakoda types, you can try this Chicken Pakoda or this Crispy Chicken Pakoda.
As I have been sharing some dry sautes or dry dishes this week, this is part of the series.You can try this easy and simple chicken fry as well!
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Step By Step Pictures to make Andhra Chicken Fry
For the Chicken Marinade
Wash and cut the chicken into bite-size pieces.
Dry roast all the whole spices, allow to cool down, and grind to a powder.
Transfer the chicken to a bowl, add the spice powder along with salt, and mix well.
Let it marinate for at least 30 mins.
For the Fry
Heat a kadai with cooking oil, add the curry leaves, finely chopped green chilies. Saute well.
Next, add the onions and mix well. Now add the whole spices along with ginger garlic paste.
Cook in low flame for 5 mins.
Add chopped tomatoes and combine.
When the tomatoes turn mushy, add the chicken marinade and cook on a high flame.
Continue cooking till the whole mixture comes together, takes about 10 mins.
When the chicken is almost dry, add coconut, green chilies, and ginger.
Cook for another 5 mins, garnish with coriander leaves and serve as a side dish for rice.
Recipe
Mirapakaya Kodi Vepudu | How to make Andhra Style Chicken Fry
Ingredients
For the Chicken Marinade
- 250 gms Chicken I would have used approx 250 to 300 gms
- 1 tbsp Coriander Seeds
- 1 tsp Cumin Seeds
- 1 tsp Peppercorns
- 5 Dry Red Chillies
- Salt to taste
For the Chicken Saute
- 3 tsp Cooking Oil
- 2 sprig Curry Leaves
- 2 Green Chillies finely chopped
- 1 cup Onions finely chopped
- 3 Cloves
- 1 Cardamom
- 1 inch Cinnamon
- 1 tsp Ginger Garlic Paste
- 1/2 cup Tomato finely chopped
- 2 tsp Coconut grated
- 1 inch Ginger julienne
- 1 Green Chilli slit
- Coriander Leaves
Instructions
For the Chicken Marinade
- Wash and cut the chicken into bite size pieces.
- Dry roast all the whole spices, allow to cool down and grind to a powder.
- Transfer the chicken to a bowl, add the spice powder along with salt and mix well.
- Let it marinate for at least 30 mins.
For the Fry
- Heat a kadai with cooking oil, add the curry leaves, finely chopped green chillies. Saute well.
- Next, add the onions and mix well. Now, add the whole spices along with ginger garlic paste.
- Cook in low flame for 5 mins.
- Add chopped tomatoes and combine.
- When the tomatoes turn mushy, add the chicken marinate and cook on high flame.
- Continue cooking till the whole mixture comes together, takes about 10 mins.
- When the chicken is almost dry, add the coconut, green chilies and ginger.
- Cook for another 5 mins, garnish with coriander leaves and serve as side dish for rice.
Vaishali says
Making fresh spice mix for any curry definitely makes it very flavorful. I am sure the dish must have been appreciated by your family.
Esha says
Is it for 1 kg or 1/2 kg chicken pls? Sorry if I have missed the measurement for chicken somewhere.
Srivalli says
Hello Esha, I must have used about 250 to 300 gms of Chicken. Since this fry has to be spicy, we have been liberal with chilies, pls take as per your taste.
Rafeeda - The Big Sweet Tooth says
We love such quick chicken fry recipes, especially my family always wants their chicken to look different. I am going to dig in with some chapathis...
Suma Gandlur says
Your energy levels towards cooking surprise me. The way you cook special lunches on weekends for your family and look for new recipes is really commendable. My energy and interest reach below zero as we drift towards weekends. 🙂
NARMADHA says
This looks too tempting. I am a big fan of nonveg dishes from Andhra. Bookmarking it right away to try during the weekend.
Radha says
Must be a delicious one!