Milagai Bajji Recipe
Milagai Bajji is one of the favorite tea time snack of South India. This chilli bajji tastes amazingly delicious with right mix of spicy & flavorful ingredients. Being born & brought up in Chennai, I'm a great fan of this crispy milagai bajji. Its one of my hot favorite snack, whenever we go to marina beach. The combo of spicy milagai bajji & garma garam coffee tastes divine. Preparing this irresistable snack at home is quite easy. Check out the video recipe here! Preparation time: 10 mins
Cooking time: 15 mins
No. of servings: 3 persons
Calories: 380
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Ingredients
- Big chilli / bajji milagai / mirchi - 6 to 8
- Gram flour / kadalai maavu - 1 cup
- Rice flour - 2 tbsp
- Baking soda - 1/2 tsp
- Turmeric pwd - 1/4 tsp
- Red chilli pwd - 1 tsp
- Cumin pwd - 1/2 tsp
- Saunf pwd - 1/2 tsp
- Salt to taste
- Oil to deep fry
Method
- Wash and dry chillies.
- Make a slit and deseed them.
- In a mixing bowl, add gram flour, rice flour, baking soda, turmeric pwd, red chilli pwd, cumin pwd, salt and saunf pwd.
- Mix well.
- Add water little by little and mix to thick smooth batter.
- The batter consistency should be thick and free flowing as shown in video.
- Heat oil in frypan.
- Take a chilli, dip it in batter and drop carefully in hot oil.
- Deep fry in medium flame.
- Once the milagai bajji is golden and crispy, drain from oil in kitchen tissue.
- Repeat the same for all the chillies.
- Lipsmacking spicy delicious chennai beach style milagai bajji is ready.
- Enjoy hot with red chutney or any dip of your choice.
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