Chilli Bajji Recipe | Milagai Bajji Recipe | Mirchi Bajji

Chilli Bajji is a popular street food which pairs excellent with hot tea. As a kid I used to have it whenever we go to Kanyakumari. We don't get this in our place so very rarely in a year we buy them. Now after marriage I buy these chillies when guest arrives or on weekends. This is a simple recipe so we can do it in a jiffy during teatime.

Milagai Bajji

Recipe Cuisine: South Indian | Recipe Category: Tea time Snack
Prep Time: 5 mins | Cooking Time: 10 mins | Makes: 5

Ingredients:

Bajji Chilli - 5
Bengal gram flour / Kadalai Maavu - 1 cup
Rice flour - 1/4 cup
Red chilli powder - 1 tsp
Asafoetida - 1/4 tsp
Cooking Soda - a pinch
Salt - to taste
Water - as required
Oil - to deep fry

Method:

In a large mixing bowl, sieve the bengal gram flour and rice flour.

Add chilli powder, asafoetida, cooking soda, salt to taste. Mix everything together.

Add little water and mix it to a batter. The batter should not be very thick or very watery.If it is very thin it will not stick to the chilli.

Heat oil to deep fry. To check whether oil is in right heat drop little batter, it should rise immediately. Keep the flame on low to medium immediately.

Slit the chilli and dip it in the batter. Drop it in the hot oil and fry till golden brown.

Serve with hot tea.

Pictorial:

Keep all your ingredients ready

Sieve besan flour and rice flour

Add chilli powder, baking soda, asafoetida and salt to taste

Add little water and mix well. It should not be very watery or thick

The batter is ready

We can make in two ways. One as a whole and other cutting into two halves. For the first method, cut the chilli on one side like this

Dip it in the batter

Heat oil to deep fry till hot. To check it, just drop a small batter in it. It should rise immediately. At this temperature, reduce it to low to medium flame and fry the bajji.

Remove from flame and drain excess oil

Second method is cutting the chilli into two halves. Dip it in batter and fry it in the same way

Serve with hot tea or coffee...