Curd Chilly
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Curd Chilly is like a dry chili pickle
the taste is salty and spicy. We can eat it with a lot of things as a side of
rice dish.
Ingredients:
- 1 kg fresh red chillies
- 3 tbsps sea/rock salt
- 1 cup very sour yoghurt
- 1 cup tamarind juice (soak 1 golf ball-sized lump of tamarind
in 1 cup water for 15 minutes and squeeze out juice)
Preparation:
- Pre-heat your oven to 100 degrees Celsius or 212 degree
Fahrenheit.
- Put all the ingredients in a large bowl and mix very
well.
- Transfer them onto a baking tray lined with foil.
- Bake in the oven, moving around occasionally, till all
the chillies are completely dry.
- Store in an air-tight glass jar.
- Serve as is or heat oil in a pan and fry as many
chillies as you want, till crisp.
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Curd chillies are a hot
delicacy served as a substitute for pickle forming a part of menu of South
Indian meals. They are dried chillies which are white in colour. On frying,
they turn black in colour. To prepare them at home follow the simple recipe:
Soak hot green chillies in a curd and salt solution in the proportion of 1:1
for 4 parts of chillies. Once they are tender, dry them thoroughly till they turn
white in colour. Fry in oil till they turn black in colour and serve with curd
rice etc.
How to select
Curd chillies are available in supermarkets as well as local stores. Ensure the
packaging is sealed and check the manufacturing and expiry date before
purchasing.
Culinary Uses
· Curd chillies are fried in oil till crisp and served with plain boiled rice
or curd rice with sambhar.
· They are stuffed with sesame seeds which are called majjiga mirapakayalu in
South India and is served extensively with sambhar.
· Curd chillies can be tempered with cumin , mustard seeds and pinch of
turmeric to be served with the meals.
· Fried curd chillies can be added to rice flour upmas.
How to store
Curd chillies should be stored in dry, cool place kept in air-tight containers
away from moisture.
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