Kodi Vepudu

 

Kodi Vepudu is one of the famous Andhra style chicken curries. It is one of the best side dish with any main dish. It is delicious and simple to make.

This is very flavorful and spicy dish. This goes very well with biryani, fried rice, ghee rice, jeera rice, curd rice, sambar rice, variety rice, dosa, idli, roti, chapatti, naan…

Ingredients

Boneless Chicken – ½ kg

Finely Chopped Onions – 2 (big)

Cinnamon Sticks – 2

Cardamom – 5

Ginger Garlic Paste – 2 tsp

Finely Chopped Tomatoes – 2

Turmeric Powder – ½ tsp

Coriander Powder – 2 tsp

Chilli Powder – 1 ½ tsp

Salt to taste

Curry Leaves – few

Chopped Coriander Leaves – few

Oil – 3 tsp

Method

Clean and wash the chicken pieces and cut it into small pieces.

In a pan, heat oil. Add cinnamon, cardamom, and saute it for few sec. Then add chopped onions and fry till it gets golden brown in color.

Then add ginger garlic paste and saute it till the raw smell goes well.

Now add chopped chicken pieces with little salt and saute it well.

Once it done, then add chopped tomato pieces and cook well till it gets completely mushy.

Add chilli powder, coriander powder, turmeric powder and mix well with chicken pieces.

Cook well on low flame until the chicken curry cooked in right consistency.

No need to add water. Water will come out from curry itself. Make sure it should not burn due to high flame.

Let it cook in slow flame. Add chopped coriander leaves and mix it well.

In another pan, add 2 tsp of oil and heat it. Then add the chicken curry into this.

Keep cook on slow flame and add curry leaves. Then mix well carefully.

Once the chicken cooked well then switch off the flame. And garnish with chopped coriander leaves.

Serve hot with steamed white rice/roti…