Stuffed White Chillies

Food

White Chillies are most often used for making Bajjis. Here is a different dish made with white chillies.

Ingredients: (Serves four persons)

White Chillies - 500 gms.
Tamarind - In the size of a big lemon
Oil - 6-7 tbsp.
Salt - ½ tsp.
Good Thread to tie
For Stuffing:
Channa Dal Flour - 200 gms.
Omum - 1 tbsp.
Sugar - 1 tbsp.
Salt to taste
Red Chilli Powder - ½ tsp.
Oil - 100 gms.

Procedure

While buying chillies see to it that all the chillies are of similar size. Slit the chillies and remove the seeds. Soak the tamarind in water and collect the extract. Add salt to the extract and let it boil. Soak the chillies in the hot tamarind extract for 10 to 15 minutes. In the meanwhile mix dal flour, omum, sugar, salt, red chilli powder and oil together evenly. Remove the chillies from the extract and squeeze excess water carefully. Stuff the mixture inside the slit chillies without any gap. Tie the chillies with the thread, so that the stuffing does not come out. In a broad-bottomed pan heat some oil and drop the chillies one by one carefully. Sprinkle some water whenever necessary. Keep tossing the chillies periodically and see to it that the chillies do not get broken while tossing. Cook till it becomes soft. Before serving, remove the thread. Serve hot with chappatis.

Sujatha Pradeep