Stuffed Green Chilli Fry is the best side dish with any curry or dal. You can serve it with chapati or bhakri. Chilies used in this recipe are not spicy. Use thick chilies which are very less spicy for making a stuffed green chili fry recipe.
Wash and dry green chilies. Now make a vertical cut on them as shown below and remove the seeds from the chilies.
Masala For stuffing :
For stuffing, heat a pan. Roast 1/2 cup of peanuts, until light brown spots appear on peanuts. Let them cool.
Transfer roasted peanuts to a grinder jar and grind them into a fine powder.
Add 1 teaspoon of red chili powder, 1/4 teaspoon of turmeric powder, 1/2 teaspoon of salt and a handful of freshly chopped coriander in a peanut powder.
Mix it well. Masala stuffing is ready for bharli Mirchi fry.
Bharli mirchi recipe:
Stuff the masala made in the previous step inside chilies from the vertical cuts as shown below.
Heat 2 tablespoons of oil in a pan. Transfer the stuffed chilies to a pan and shallow fry the chilies from both sides. (It will take 2-3 minutes for each side)
Now add 1/2 cup of water to it. Cover and cook it for 3 to 4 minutes.
Bharli mirchi pakora recipe
In a bowl, take 3 tablespoons of gram flour, 1/2 tablespoon of rice flour, 1/2 teaspoon of turmeric powder and salt to taste.
Add water in small amounts in it, to make a thick mixture.
Heat oil in a pan for deep frying Chilies to make bharli mirchi pakoda.
Add 1 tablespoon of hot oil and a pinch of baking soda to the pakoda mixture.
Coat bharli mirchi (stuffed chilies) in this mixture and deep fried them in oil.