Mulaga bhaji or chilly bhaji.

Mulaga bhaji is very popular tea time snack of Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh.

The chillies used are non-spicy. You get them at any supermarket.

Applied some tamarind masala inside these chillies for better taste. Let us go through the recipe step by step.

Ingredients

• 6 long chillies. (Without spicy)
• 300 gram besan flour
• 100 gram rice flour
• Chilly powder.according to taste.
• Salt to taste
• A pinch of cooking soda.
• Oil for deep frying.

Mix all the above ingredients and then add water. The batter should be like idly batter consistency (not thick/not loose).

For the tamarind paste:

Soak a marble size of tamarind in water.
Squeeze out the thick juice.Or  a simpler way is to use tamarind paste.
Add little salt, 1/4 spoon dhaniya jeera powder, 1 spoon chat masala or garam masala.
Mix all these in the tamarind juice.

Method:

Slit the chillies, take care not to cut the chillies into half.
Remove the all the seeds.

Apply this tamarind masala inside chillies.

Heat oil in a kadai or pan.
When it is hot dip the chillies in the besan batter and put in the hot oil.
Reduce the flame.
Fry till golden colour.

Serve hot! 🙂