There is nothing to beat the heavenly feeling of eating deep fried snacks along with a cup of coffee. If the weather is pleasant with cold breeze or drizzling rain, then cozy feeling extends another level. Which is why I chose to post this stuffed mirchi bajji in this season of monsoon. But unfortunately rain has disappeared from most part of Karnataka this year. The monsoon season has turned in to slightly sunny and dry kind of weather.
When the chillies are big and hollow inside, the idea of stuffing comes in your mind. Isn’t it? Same thing happened here. I had a cup of potato stuffing with all the spices well integrated. So it made me to tweak the recipe of simple mirchi bajji. The green chilly when slit had very few seeds. I removed and discarded the tiny seeds and filled it with potato stuffing. This stuffed mirchi tastes quite delicious when deep fried.
The gram flour coating, chilly and then potato stuffing makes this snack a wonderful food on earth. There is nothing wrong in relishing the deep fried snacks once a while. Isn’t it? Try this stuffed mirchi bajji at least once to know the taste.
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Ingredients
- 10 nos. Big chillies
For stuffing
- 2 nos. Potato
- 1/2 cup Onion chopped
- 2 nos. Green chillies
- 1 tsp Salt
- 1/2 tsp Turmeric powder
- 2 tbsp Coriander leaves chopped
- 2 tsp Lemon juice
To temper
- 2 tsp Oil
- 1/2 tsp Mustard seeds
- 1/2 tsp White lentils
- 1/2 tsp Chickpea lentils
- Few Curry leaves
For batter
- 1.5 cup Gram flour
- 1/2 cup Rice flour
- 1 tsp Salt
- 1 tsp Red chilly powder- 3/4 tsp
- Water as needed
- 1/4 tsp Baking soda optional
Instructions
- Heat a pan adding oil, mustard seeds, lentils and curry leaves. When mustard splutters, include chopped onion and saute till translucent. Add green chillies and turmeric powder.
- Next include cooked and mashed potato and salt. Mix everything well. Finally add coriander leaves and squeeze some lemon. Stuffing is ready. Next slit the bajji chillies and remove all seeds.
- Next in a bowl, add gram flour. rice flour, salt and red chilly powder. Give a quick mix.
- Include water little by little and prepare slightly thicker batter. The consistency should be like dosa batter. Meanwhile heat some oil in a heavy bottom pan.
- Next, take the slit chillies and fill with potato stuffing. Keep the chillies ready for deep frying. Dip a stuffed chilly in gram flour batter and carefully drop in to hot oil.
- Deep fry the chillies till they turn golden brown and drain over a kitchen tissue.
- Very tempting stuffed mirchi bajji is ready to serve with hot tea and coffee.
Notes
- Choose the chillies that are big and hollow inside.
- You can prepare the stuffing as per your taste buds. Like, you can add ginger, garam masala powder for unique taste.
- The gram flour batter shouldn't be too thin. In that case the batter would coat over the chilly.
- Add little baking soda to the gram flour batter for nice crunch.
