Chilly Bhajji / Deep Fried Peppers
This is how I like to categorize spicy food.. 'Spice Spicy', 'Gingery Spicy' and 'Chilly Spicy' 🙂 All I need on my daily diet is a dish with lots of flavor and a hint of spice. However, there are days when I crave for nothing more than a super-spicy delicious homemade meal. Like chilly chicken...Read More
- Prep time
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- Cook time
- Not listed
- Yield
- 4 servings
- Difficulty
- MEDIUM
Ingredients
Quantities are shown as originally provided.
- 4 anaheim peppers
- 1 onion
- 1 cup cilantro (finely chopped)
- 2 cloves garlic
- 1 tbs ginger paste
- 1 tsp tamarind paste
- 1 tbs chickpea flour/besan
- 1 tsp cumin powder
- salt
- pepper
- oil
Instructions
- 1
Make a slit on the peppers and remove the seeds slowly if you want to reduce the heat.
- 2
Using a food processor, grate onion, cilantro, garlic and ginger to a coarse paste.
- 3
Then, add tamarind paste, salt, pepper and cumin powder to the onion mixture.
- 4
Brush some oil on the peppers and stuff them with the mixture.
- 5
Bake them at 375 F for about 15 minutes. Just to soften them. This is however optional.
- 6
Take them out of the oven and let them cool down completely
- 7
In the mean time, mix the chickpea flour with some water and make a thick batter.
- 8
In a pan, heat enough oil to deep fry.
- 9
Coat the peppers with the batter nicely.
- 10
Fry them in medium heat for about 2 minutes until it's slight golden brown in color.
- 11
Serve them hot!