MIRCHI KA RAITA

Mirchi ka raita is prepared with the large green chilli or bharwan mirch it is known as.  We can make nice bhajias out of this stuffed with potato masala.

When I saw the fresh green chilli with the veg vendor, I could not resist myself from buying this.  However, I made it with only one chilli and rest, i used for bhajias.  This goes well with rice as well as parathas.  I had made green peas paratha and served with it.

Let us look at the recipe now:


Ingredients:

1 large green chilli finely chopped
1 onion finely chopped
1/4 cup thick curd
1 tsp curry powder *
salt
6-8 basil leaves
generous pinch of asafoetida


Tempering:

1 tbsp oil
1 tsp mustard seeds
1 tsp urid dal
few curry leaves
1 red chilly broken

How to make curry powder

1 tbsp chana dal
1 red chilli
1/2 tsp rice

dry roast the ingredients, cool and make powder.

Method:

cut the chilli, remove the seeds and chop them finely.  chop the onion finely.  heat oil in kadai.  add the mustard seeds, when it splutters, add the urid dal, red chilli, curry leaves, broken chilli, asafoetida in it. when it is done, add the onion and chilli , littile salt and saute till soft.

beat the curd, add the curry powder in it and mix well.  pour this into the chilli onion and stir for a minute or two.  adjust salt.   remove from heat. add the chopped basil leaves and serve it with pulao, rice or paratha.