STUFFED BAJJI MIRCHI GRAVY / MIRCHI SALAN

Hi All,

STUFFED MIRCHI SALAN!! We always prepare only bajji with this mirchi but last week I brought some bajji mirchis and there was too many to prepare only bajji ! So I thought of making something different and searched in net to find this gravy recipe.

But actual recipe goes well with fried rice and briyani and also they make this gravy with real long mirchi (not with bajji mirchi L) but I want it to go with Chapthi and Dosa so I altered the recipe as per my requirement and tired it.It came out to be well and worth a try.

The ingredients looks like a big list but recipe is so simple.

The recipe is as below,

INGREDIENTS :

Bajji Mirchi – 3 nos.

Onion – 1 nos (big).

Tomato – 1 no(big)

Turmeric powder – ¼ tsp

Coriander powder – ½ tsp.

Curry leaves – a sprig.

Oil – 1 tsp

Oil – for deep frying chillies.

SAUTE AND GRIND TO PASTE :

Onion – 1 no(big)

Ginger 1 ½” piece – 1

Garlic – 5 pods

Dry red chilli – 3

Sesame seeds – ½ tsp

Groundnut – ½ tsp

Cinnamon / pattai  1” piece – 1 no

Cloves / Krambu – 2 nos

Fennel seeds / Sombu – ½ tsp

Cumin / Zeera – ½ tsp

Khus khus / Poppy seeds – ¼ tsp

Coconut  - 6 tsp.

Oil – 2 tsp.

FOR BATTER : (OPTIONAL ,YOU CAN EVEN SKIP THIS STEP)

All purpose flour – 1 ½ cup

Chilli powder – 1 tsp

Chilli chicken powder – 1 tsp

Cornflour mix – 3 tsp

Salt – as required.

FOR STUFFING :

Potato – 2 nos

Chilli powder – 1 tsp

Onion – 5 tsp

Garammasala – ½ tsp

Cumin powder – ½ tsp

Salt – ½ tsp.

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PREPARATION :

1) Saute the grinding ingredients after frying in a tsp of oil and grind to fine paste.

2) Clean and slit open the mirchi chillies and remove the seeds.

3) Boil and mash the potatoes , then mix the potato with our stuffing ingredients ( chillipowder , chopped onions , garam masala , cumin powder and salt).

4) Now stuff the slitted chill with the mixed potato and close the chillies (as in picture).

5) In a bowl mix all purpose flour , chilli powder , chillichicken powder , cornflour mix and salt and add ¼ cup water and mix to form idli batter consistency ( you can even skip this step , we like the chewy texture in chillies so I did it ..if you don’t want you can skip this and fry the chillies directly in oil too).

6) Dip each of the stuffed chilli in above batter and deep fry in oil till golden brown , drain the oil and keep aside.

7) In a pan add 1 tsp of oil followed by onions , curry leaves and fry till translucent.

8) When onions are done add tomatoes and fry till mushy , followed by turmeric powder , coriander powder and sauté once.

9) Now add the ground masala and boil for 5 mins till the gravy reaches required consistency.

10)           When your gravy is ready finally add the fried chillies and garnish with coriander leaves and give a quick mix and serve.

11)       The gravy goes best with dosa and chapathis too.

NOTES :

1) After adding chillies to gravy don’t boil the gravy .as already everything is boiled and fried just add the chillies and serve.

2) As my Chillies are very long I cutted them into pieces and added to gravy , you can add as it is.

3) If you want the gravy to be very simple , you can just fry the chillies in oil without even stuffing and add to gravy.

HAPPY COOKING!!