Cut Mirchi Bajji

Cut Mirchi Bajji is a popular street snack in Andhra. The chillies vary from region to region - some use thin and spicy ones while the others use a bit thick and medium spice ones.
Our Hyderabad days reminds me of this yummy snack - Taj tristar served this snack at its best!! So here we enjoyed the pleasure of staying at home while adding this to our lockdown series :))!

Ingredients

Long Chillies/Banana Peppers - 5
Oil for deep frying
For the batter
Besan - 2 Cups
Baking Soda - 1/2 tsp
Turmeric -1/2 tsp
Ajwain - 1/2 tsp
Salt to taste
Oil - 1 tbsp
For the filling
Tamarind paste thick - 2 tbsp
Chilli powder - 1/2 tsp
Ajwain - 1/4 tsp
Hurgadle/Putani powdered - 2 to 3tbsp
Salt to taste
For garnishing
Onions finely chopped - 1
Coriander leaves finely chopped - handful
Lemon juice - 1 tbsp
Chaat masala - 1 tsp

Method

• Firstly in a large bowl - mix Besan, Soda, Ajwain, Turmeric, Oil and Salt into a thick batter. Keep this aside.
• In another bowl - add Tamarind paste, Chilli powder, Ajwain, Putani and Salt. Mix well into a thick paste.
• Now take the Green Chillies, slit it and remove all the seeds. This will reduce the spice level of the Chillies i guess.
• Fill the Chillies with the prepared Tamarind and putani mixture.

• Dip these prepared Chillies in the Besan batter and deep fry until slightly golden in colour.
• Drain this on a kitchen towel and let them cool.

• Cut these fried Chillies into inch pieces and deep fry them again until crispy.
• Drain this on a kitchen towel.
• Arrange these fried cut mirchi on plate and top it with Onions, Coriander leaves, some roasted Peanuts, Chaat masala and a dash of Lemon!!

Ready to attack as a starter!!!!