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Kozhi Ada - Malabar chicken pockets
From ₹219200 g / 300 g / 500 g
In stock - ships from Calicut. MRP, inclusive of GST.
Crisp fried pockets of fennel-spiced chicken, made in Calicut the bakery way.
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- Ready to eat Nothing to heat
- Keeps 3 months No fridge needed
- FSSAI licensed Lic. 21324247000581
- Ships pan-India Free from ₹400
Kozhi Ada is the chicken-filled tea-time snack of the Mappila kitchens of north Kerala. Ours is the bakery-style version: a thin wheat-flour pastry crimped by hand around shredded chicken cooked down with fennel, ginger, garlic, green chilli, black pepper, coriander, turmeric, garam masala and curry leaves, then fried until the shell is crisp and blistered and the crimped edge holds its shape.
It arrives ready to eat. Every pack - 200, 300 or 500 g - keeps for three months in a cool, dry cupboard - no freezer, no cold chain, no waiting for something to thaw before you can eat one, and nothing to reheat. Open the pack, pour the chaya, and that is the whole preparation.
- Shelf life
- Three months from the packing date, sealed, in a cool dry place away from sunlight. Reseal after opening.
- Ingredients
- Refined wheat flour (maida), chicken, edible vegetable oil, onion, water, spices and condiments (ginger, garlic, green chilli, red chilli, black pepper, coriander, turmeric, fennel and garam masala), curry leaves and salt. Contains wheat (gluten).
What goes in
Chicken, fennel, curry leaves - and a wheat pastry that fries crisp.
Refined wheat flour (maida), chicken, edible vegetable oil, onion, water, spices and condiments (ginger, garlic, green chilli, red chilli, black pepper, coriander, turmeric, fennel and garam masala), curry leaves and salt. Contains wheat (gluten).
The filling is cooked down until the masala coats the meat, not a gravy - that is what keeps the pastry crisp in the pack.
What you will be ordering
Kozhi Ada is the chicken-filled tea-time snack of the Mappila kitchens of north Kerala. Ours is the bakery-style version: a thin wheat-flour pastry crimped by hand around shredded chicken cooked down with fennel, ginger, garlic, green chilli, black pepper, coriander, turmeric, garam masala and curry leaves, then fried until the shell is crisp and blistered and the crimped edge holds its shape.
It arrives ready to eat. Every pack - 200, 300 or 500 g - keeps for three months in a cool, dry cupboard - no freezer, no cold chain, no waiting for something to thaw before you can eat one, and nothing to reheat. Open the pack, pour the chaya, and that is the whole preparation.
Two kinds of kozhi ada, and which one this is
If you grew up in a Malabar house you may know kozhi ada as a soft rice-flour parcel, steamed and then finished on the tawa. That version is real, it is older, and it is the one we publish a working recipe for. It is also a same-day food: the rice-flour wrapper stales within hours and does not survive a courier journey in any condition worth eating.
The version sold across the counter in Kozhikode bakeries is the fried one - wheat-flour pastry, crimped and deep-fried, stacked in the glass case beside the unnakaya and the cutlet. It is what most people in Calicut actually buy when they buy kozhi ada, and it is the only one of the two that travels. That is what we pack and ship. We would rather tell you plainly which one is in the packet than let a photograph imply the other.
Made in Calicut, built to travel
Everything is made by hand in our own kitchen in Calicut, under FSSAI licence 21324247000581. The filling is cooked down until the masala coats the meat rather than sitting in gravy - that is the step that keeps the pastry crisp in the pack instead of going soft against a wet filling.
Because the pack is shelf-stable it goes anywhere an ordinary parcel goes: across India by courier, and into a suitcase bound for the Gulf without a cold bag or a thawing clock. That is the practical reason a Malayali abroad can be sent kozhi ada at all, and the reason we chose this version to launch with rather than the one that only works within a few hours of the kitchen.
The trade-off is worth stating plainly. A fried wheat pastry is not the lighter steamed snack, and we do not describe it as one. What it is instead is the crisp, keeping, travelling kozhi ada that Calicut itself eats most of.
About this snack
Is this the steamed rice-flour kozhi ada or the fried one?
The fried one - the bakery-style version sold over the counter in Kozhikode: wheat-flour pastry, hand-crimped, deep-fried. The steamed rice-flour version is a same-day food that does not survive shipping, so we publish a recipe for it rather than posting it to you.Does it need a freezer?
No. Every pack is shelf-stable and keeps for three months in a cool, dry place away from direct sunlight. Reseal after opening. That is what lets it travel by ordinary courier across India, and in a suitcase to the Gulf.How do I serve it?
Straight from the pack - no reheating, no oven, nothing to do first. It is a tea snack - two pieces with a glass of sulaimani is the standard Calicut serving.What is in it, and are there allergens?
Refined wheat flour (maida), chicken, edible vegetable oil, onion, water, spices and condiments (ginger, garlic, green chilli, red chilli, black pepper, coriander, turmeric, fennel and garam masala), curry leaves and salt. It contains wheat (gluten). Made under FSSAI licence 21324247000581.Is it halal?
We do not hold a halal certificate at the moment. If certification matters to you, email us before ordering and we will tell you exactly what we can and cannot confirm about the chicken we use.What is the shelf life of Kozhi Ada - Malabar chicken pockets?
Three months from the packing date, sealed, in a cool dry place away from sunlight. Reseal after opening.What are the ingredients in Kozhi Ada - Malabar chicken pockets?
Refined wheat flour (maida), chicken, edible vegetable oil, onion, water, spices and condiments (ginger, garlic, green chilli, red chilli, black pepper, coriander, turmeric, fennel and garam masala), curry leaves and salt. Contains wheat (gluten).
Kozhi Ada
₹219 200 g