Salami Stuffed Cheesy Mirchi

Mirchi Bajji – a very famous street food which makes me very nostalgic! Only very few recipes bring back our lovely moments and makes us smile all alone. And these fried ones are in my nostalgic list! This is my most favorite one so I make sure that I do not miss them whenever we go to the beach.  Sitting in the beach sand facing a lovely sunset n waves with our favorite people around holding a plate full of Hot bajji’s with watery chutney which runs around the plate…. just chatting n munching… Really those are Lovely days with no tension…no fear about future. And those days will never come back and am sure that everyone had some nostalgic moments like me….especially beach bajji’sJ

I got a chance to taste the most yummy mirchi bajji’s with the perfect delicious chutney some months back in Kerala. It’s THE BEST in my terminology and that’s the best mirchi bajji that I ever tasted in my life… The chutney which they serve has lots of finely chopped garlic and ginger with the tangy spicy flavor. Mainly the chutney is thick and very very spicy. Imagine hot mirchi bajji with spicy chutney!!!! Tempting right…uff I have already started drooling… he he ;)

Missing all those spicy nostalgic moments!!!

And coming to my today’s recipe…. I tried this recipe couple of months back for a completion conducted by lekhafoods.com. I was shortlisted but was unlucky to get into the final list to win a Samsung phone. 

Stuffing cheese and olives in mirchi completely turned it to an Italian style… Fusion MirchiJ . And the taste was truly divine which made my hubby who is not fond of mirchi to gulp 3 stuffed mirchis ! Happy J

Served these fried ones with sweet chilli sauce to balance the taste.

Here is my style of fusion Bajji….

Serves – 4 people

Preparation Time – 15 Minutes

Cooking Time – 15 Minutes

Ingredients:

·        6 Mirchi ( Long mirchi which is used for preparing bajji 
·        Oil for frying

For Stuffing:

·        1 Cup Goat cheese, grated
·        10 Salami Slices, grated
·        ½ Tbsp Chilli flakes
·        6 Black Olives, chopped

For Outer batter:

·        2 Cups Besan Flour
·        1 Tsp Paprika
·        Salt to taste
·        ¼ Tsp Baking Soda

For Garnishing:

·        Onion Rings, sliced
·        5 Olives, sliced

Method:

·        Boil water in a bowl and add all the mirchi.

·        After adding, switch of the flame and let it cook on that heat for a minute.

·        Remove from the water and slightly slit them in the center to stuff.

·        Remove all the seeds inside mirchi and keep aside.

·        Take a bowl and add the grated salami followed by grated goat cheese, olives and chilli flakes.

·        Mix well and keep aside.

·        Now add besan flour in a separate bowl followed by paprika, salt and baking soda.

·        Add little water and mix well to avoid any lumps.

·        The batter should not be too thick or too thin. Add water little by little to get the correct consistency.

·        Heat oil in a pan and once it reaches the smoking point, reduce the flame to medium.

·        Now fill the mirchi’s with the salami cheese mixture and dip it in the batter.

·        Stuffed mirchi should be coated well with the batter to avoid breaking while frying.

·        Drop them slowly in a hot oil and deep fry till the color changes.

·        Once done, remove from the flame and drain the excess oil using kitchen towel.

·        Repeat the process for the remaining mirchis.

·        Garnish with the onions rings and olives.

·        Serve hot.

Serving Options :

·        Serve hot with Sweet chilli sauce or Tomato sauce.

  

Channa Masala - Try My Recipes

Channa Masala is a special dish which you will find in majority of hotels serving with poori and chapathi.

Personally I love the flavor of north Indian’s channa masala which has lots of aromatic flavor and equally tastes delicious. I got a lovely opportunity to try this masala from Meenu’s blog and the most speciality in this curry is it has no onions and tomatoes…. I was all amazed and confused while reading her recipe but trust me… the taste was awesome.  My new neighbor friend who was standing beside me while cooking was also surprised by the recipe procedure. And this is the first dish I shared with my neighbor and they really loved it... Thanks meenu dear :)

 I served this with breads so mashed little at the final stage and it tasted like pav bajji :)

Click HERE to get the original recipe and am sending this to her TRY MY RECIPES event.

Wanna try her recipes and participate in her event!!!!  Just click HERE...you will be redirected to her announcement page :)

Ingredients:

• 1 Cup Chickpeas
• 2 Potatoes
• 2 Green chillies, sliced
• 1 Tea Bag
• ½ Tbsp Ginger Garlic paste (Actual recipe calls for sliced Ginger)
• 1 Tbsp Gram Flour
• 1 Tsp Chilli powder
• ½ Tsp Turmeric powder
• 1 Tsp Cumin powder
• 1 Tsp Coriander powder
• Small piece of Tamarind
• A pinch of hing
• 2 Tbsp Oil
• Handful of Coriander leaves
• Salt to taste

Method:

• Soak the Chickpeas in water for overnight.
• Chop the potatoes and pressure cook it with the soaked  chickpeas along with the tea bag for 4-5 whistles.
• Remove the tea bag and retain the cooked chickpeas, potatoes and water.
• Soak the tamarind with little water before starting the cooking process.
• Heat oil in a pan and add the hing followed by the gram flour.
• Stir till color of the flour changes to light brown.
• Now add the chopped green chillies, ginger garlic paste, red chilli powder, turmeric powder, cumin powder and coriander powder.
• Extract the juice from the soaked tamarind and add it to the masala.
• Add the cooked chickpeas and potatoes along with the water.
• Add salt and cook the gravy for 15 minutes.
• Garnish with the chopped coriander leaves and serve hot.

Serving Options:

Serve hot with Roti, Poori, Rice and Bread.        

   

Linking this with Meenu's TRY MY RECIPES

Friday Chat With Bloggers - Lucky Winner Announcement

Let me start with a big “Thank you “to everyone for making this event successful till now with all your love, support and lovely comments...   I started this Event on January of this year and Divya Pramil from youtoocancook helped me in finalizing the event logo and banner. Big hug and thanks to u dear :)

After finalizing everything I requested viji from Virunthu unna vanga to start my event as my first guest and immediately she accepted and gave us a yummy sweet.

Later got lots of lovely response from blogger friends through mail... The entire recipe which was sent by our friends was awesome and delicious. The interesting part is to know more about their likes, favorites and their first experience in cooking. I really enjoyed all the chats and especially the tips that everyone shared with us was really very useful.

So far successfully completed 11 weeks and as I promised am going to select one lucky winner from the 10 Bloggers. Last week Friday blogger Sangeetha Nambi will be included in the next 10 bloggers.

Let’s see our first ten bloggers……

1 . Viji from Virunthu unna vaanga

Recipe Link – http://priyasmenu.blogspot.in/2013/01/friday-chat-with-bloggers-viji-from.html

2. Sharanya Palaniswami from Saras Tasty buds

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3.  Preeti from

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4. Maha / Usha from Mahas Lovely home

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5. Jillu Anand from Jiya’s delicacy

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6. Sangeetha from

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7. Nabanitha from

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8. Kirthi from

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9. Poorni from

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10. Archana from

Recipe Link – http://priyasmenu.blogspot.in/2013/04/friday-chat-with-bloggers-archana-from.html

So are you excited to know the gift???

Here it is…..

Hope you all like this :)

And the winner should have an Indian address; if not please send your relatives / Friends address who resides in India… so that it will be easy for me to courier. And the winner, please send your contact details in couple of days.

No more delay to know the lucky winner….

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               VIJI from VIRUNTHU UNNA VAANGA

Congrats Viji :) Please mail me your contact details in couple of days…

Thank you so much everyone for accepting my request and participating in my event…  :)

Meet you all same day..next week with an another interesting blogger :)

If you are interested in my Friday Chat With Bloggers Event…Please do mail me at priyasmenu@gmail.com

Instant Bread Upma - Try My Recipes Event

Tried this delicious n quick bread upma from Meena’s blog.  I used to prepare bread upma but this is very different than mine.  Adding water and making it as a thick consistency was very new to me and I really enjoyed the taste. Definitely this is a MUST TRY recipe according to me and am planning to try again. Very simple and easy recipe to prepare in a short time. I loved it with onion raita and the taste was amazing along with it. 

Thank you so much Meenu ji for sharing this yummy yummy upmaJ

And this recipe goes to her TRY MY RECIPES event.

Are you interested to know more about this event… Just click HERE !!

Ingredients :

• 4 Bread Slices
• 1 Onion , Finely chopped
• 1 Tomato, Finely chopped
• Handful of Curry leaves
• 1 Green chilli, chopped
• 1 Tbsp Oil
• ½ Tsp Mustard seeds
• ¼ Tsp Turmeric powder
• ¼ Tsp Coriander powder
• ¼ Tsp Chilli powder
• Salt to taste
• Few coriander leaves and curry leaves for garnishing

Method :

• Heat oil in a pan and add the mustard seeds followed by curry leaves and green chilli.

• Add chopped onion and sauté for couple of minutes or till the color changes little pink.

• Now add chopped tomatoes and fry them together.

• Add salt, turmeric powder, coriander powder and chilli powder.

• Saute and add one cup water.

• Mix well and cook until the tomatoes turns soft and mushy.

• Mean while, cut the bread slices and add it to the cooking mixture.

• Mix well so that the bread pieces absorbs all the remaining water and stir till the thick consistency is obtained.

• Turn off the flame and garnish with curry leaves and Coriander leaves.

• Serve Hot.

Serving Options:

Serve with Onion Raita

Linking this with Meena’s Try my recipes event

Chicken Vegetable and Rice Curry - Taste and Create

Hope you all remember my Choco cup which was posted last month for Taste and create group and I was paired with Manjula from DesiFiesta…

Click HERE to view choco cup recipe !

Likewise, this month I was paired with a blog - NoReason Needed. Lovely blog and has lots of baking stuffs... Unfortunately I was not able to do her baking goodies... So finally chose her chicken recipe to try. The taste was really too good with a delicious flavor and preparation part is also so simple ... 

The Actual recipe calls for cauliflower and celery but due to unavailability I just skipped those couple of veggies. For me this is a perfect lunch box recipe and planning to try this again with the skipped veggies in future… Thanks for Taste and create team through which I got to know about this lovely blog and to try this delicious rice… Sorry for posting it little late!

Click HERE for the original version…

Ingredients:

• 250 gms Chicken, boneless and chopped into cubes
• 3 Tbsp All purpose flour
• 1 Tsp Pepper powder
• ½ Tsp Salt
• 2 Tbsp Vegetable Oil
• 1 Onion, finely chopped
• 2 Cloves Garlic, Minced
• 2 Tsp Curry powder
• ½ Cup Chicken Stock ( I used 2 chicken cubes )
• 2 Medium sized carrots, chopped finely
• 1 Cup Rice, cooked

Method:

• Mix chicken, all purpose flour, pepper and salt in a plastic bag (Zip lock) and shake well.

• Heat oil in a pan and add the flour coated chicken.

• Fry them till it turns light brown color.

• Remove and drain in a kitchen tissue.

• Now add onions in the same fried oil followed by garlic and sauté well for 5 minutes.

• Add curry powder, chicken cubes / stock, carrots and fried chicken.

• Mix well and cook for 5 minutes in a low flame.

• Now mix the cooked rice in the chicken mixture.

• Serve hot.

Serving Options :

Serve hot with Tomato sauce or chilli sauce.