Kerala Style Chicken Chatti Pathiri Recipe

Kerala Style Chicken Chatti Pathiri Recipe is a layered rice flour crepe with spicy shredded chicken that is cooked in a kadai until crispy. A recipe you must try in your kitchen.

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Kerala Style Chicken Chatti Pathiri Recipe
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Kerala Style Chicken Chatti Pathiri Recipe is a must try recipe at your kitchen. Pathiri is a type of Kerala pancakes that is layered with shredded chicken and then pan fried all together. This recipe is famous in North Malabar. It can be made savory and sweet as well. For sweet filling it is usually a mixture of grated coconut and sugar. The dish resembles a lasagna as it is layered with thin sheets of pancakes and chicken stuffing.

Serve the Kerala Style Chicken Chatti Pathiri Recipe along with Masala Chai Recipe - Indian Spiced Tea or Ginger Cardamom Chai  to enjoy your evening snack. 

If you are looking for more Kerala recipes here are some : 

  1. Kerala Avial Recipe (Mixed Vegetables in Coconut)
  2. Kerala Style Pazham Pori Recipe (Banana Fry)
  3. Kerala Style Nei-Appam/Unniyappam Recipe

Cuisine: Kerala Recipes
Course: Snack
Diet: Non Vegeterian
Prep in

10 M

Cooks in

40 M

Total in

50 M

Makes:

4 Servings

Ingredients

    For the Chicken Stuffing
  • 300 grams Chicken , minced
  • 1 Onion , sliced
  • 1 sprig Curry leaves
  • 4 cloves Garlic , chopped
  • 1 inch Ginger , chopped
  • 1 teaspoon Turmeric powder (Haldi)
  • 2 teaspoons Red Chilli powder
  • 2 teaspoons Garam masala powder
  • 1 teaspoon Black pepper powder
  • Coconut Oil , for cooking
  • Salt , to taste
  • For the Pathiri
  • 1/2 cup Whole Wheat Flour
  • 1/2 cup All Purpose Flour (Maida)
  • Salt , to taste 

How to make Kerala Style Chicken Chatti Pathiri Recipe

  1. To begin making the Kerala Style Chicken Chatti Pathiri Recipe, we will first heat a saucepan over  medium heat.

  2. Add coconut oil, add curry leaves and allow it splutter. Add chopped ginger and garlic and saute for few seconds.

  3. Add sliced onions and fry them till they turn translucent. At this point you can add minced chicken along with all the spice powders - turmeric powder, red chilli powder, garam masala powder, pepper powder, salt and give it a toss.

  4. Adjust the seasoning according to your taste and saute well till the chicken is cooked. Keep it aside.

  5. To make the pathiri batter, in a mixing bowl, combine wheat flour, all purpose flour along with ½ cup of water and mix to form batter that is similar to that of a pancake batter.

  6. Now heat up a small flat skillet on medium heat, add a ladle full of the pathiri batter and swirl it around, Shape it like crepes and keep it as thin as possible. Flip and cook, ensuring it is juts about cooked and no brown spots appear. 

  7. Repeat the same process till you finish the batter, to make enough crepes for layering.

  8. Now layer each crepe with the chicken mixture and build it up. Crepe-chicken-crepe, repeat the layers.  Heat a skillet with oil, carefully place the layered Chicken Pathiri and roast till it is light brown. Carefully flip it over and roast it on the other side. Turn off the flame. 

  9. Serve the Kerala Style Chicken Chatti Pathiri Recipe along with Masala Chai Recipe - Indian Spiced Tea or Ginger Cardamom Chai  to enjoy your evening snack.