When it is raining, usually our mind thinks of only one snack. If you are from Andhra, by this time you would have guessed the answer. It is nothing but Mirch bajji.
Whenever I pass by the stall, the smell attracts me so much that it becomes so difficult to control. But eating the road side food is not safe for health. So I often make them at home.
There are so many styles. The difference is in filling the chillies. In this receipe as I am using Ajwai, there is no fear of indigestion or gas formation.
You can use these bajjis for masala, cut mirchi, stuffed bajji also. Now you know how to make bajji.
-10 fat green chillies.
-2 cup bengal gram flour (Besan flour)
-1/4 cup rice flour (opt)
-1/4 cup rice flour (opt)
-1tbsp rice flake (pooha) /cooked rice
- Salt
-2tbs ajwai (carom seeds)
-1 tsp baking powder (or eating soda)
-oil for deep fry
Procedure:
-Make a slit to the whole length of the chillies, (but the slit should not cut the chilly into two pieces
-Make a slit to the whole length of the chillies, (but the slit should not cut the chilly into two pieces
-Take 2 tbsp ajwain and 2 tbsp salt in a small bowl and mix it.
-Now sprinkle this mix in the slit.
-Take flour ,pooha /rice, salt, baking powder, into a bowl. Using water make batter just like bondas. (thick soft paste of dropping consistency)
-Heat oil in a deep pan.
-Dip chilly in the batter and drop in the oil one by one. Fry on low flame, otherwise chillies will be raw.
-Remove from oil. Eat it like that or with other combinations like Pullihora or upma (pooha) or with onions.Try with sauce or sweet chutney also.
TIPS:
-If you cannot eat spicy, remove seeds from chillies initially.
-You can stuff chillies and make batter 1 or 2 hours before.
-You can roll Ajwain and salt with rolling pin or beat in a mortar with pestile.
-If the Bajji is oily and the layer is thin, may be the batter is thin.
-If the Bajji is oily and the layer is thin, may be the batter is thin.
-If the bajji is oily may be the baking soda is more.
-If the bajji is not puffy , may be the consistency is thick or soda is less.
-If you like crispy one, mix rice flour and decrease the measurement of cooked rice/rice flakes.
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