Milagai Bajji | Mirchi Bajji Recipe | Chilli Bajji Recipe

Milagai Bajji Recipe - Who can say NO to this Milagai Bajji that too Chennai People. Most of the Chennai People when they go to Marina Beach never fail to taste this milagai bajji, sundal, appalam and for non veg lovers this fried small fish. In my childhood days I used to eat this like crazy. But you know, it will be little spicy, so I eat one kadi bajji and one sip of water and I finish that whole bajji. 😜😜. I already have another version of Marina Beach Milagai Bajji Recipe in this blog. Now let's go to this simpler version of Milagai Bajji Recipe.

Other Evening time Snacks you can check on this blog
Soya chunks fry
Crispy cauliflower fry
Baby corn golden fry
Drumstick leaves masal vadai
Cabbage pakoda

Milagai Bajji Recipe

Preparation time: 10 min | Cook Time: 10 min | Serves: 4

Recipe Category: Snacks | Recipe Cuisine: Indian

Ingredients 

Bajji Milagai - 4 to 5
Besan - 1/2 cup
Rice flour - 1/4 cup
Corn flour - 1 to 2 tsp
Cooking soda - 2 pinches
Asafoetida - 1/6 tsp
Cumin seeds / Ajwain - 1/2 tsp
Chilli powder - 1/2 tsp
Salt - as per taste
Oil for frying

Method for preparing Milagai Bajji 

1. Wash and make a slit on the Bajji Milagai. Try to remove the seeds as far as possible.

2. Mix all the flour and mentioned powder and add water little by little and make a batter. Add hot oil now. (See notes)

3. The Batter should be ineither too thick nor too thin in consistency. If it is too thick, the Bajji may not be well cooked and if it's too thin, it will not be properly costed on the Bajji. Dip the Italian peppers/Milagai slowly in the batter till it fully covers.

4. When the oil is hot, reduce the flame and slowly drop the dipped Milagai into the hot oil. Increase the flame to medium and roll the Milagai slowly to cook on all sides. When it is light brown golden colour on all sides, filter the oil and serve it.

5. These Milagai Bajji need to served hot hot with any spicy chutney to taste it's real taste. I had with spicy coriander Coconut chutney and Rose milk for my evening snack ☺️.

Notes:

1. Seeds sometimes give more spiciness. You cannot eat more than one Milagai Bajji if it is more spicy. Also if you try to eat, it might give trouble to your stomach later. 😜

2. Once you make slit in the Bajji, you can soak it in salt water, or tamarind water to reduce its spiciness. After 1 HR of soaking dry the peppers and then add to batter. 

3. By Adding hot oil to the mixture, Bajji won't suck more oil during frying. 

4. You can avoid baking soda while giving to kids, but it gives nice crunchiness to the Bajji. 

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Small fish fry | Indian Fish Fry Recipes | Sunday Special Recipes

Small Fish Fry Recipe - Fish fry is always our family favorite dish. Though I prepare different fish fry recipes like vanjaram fry, masala fish fry etc., I always admire the taste of small fish fry. I don't know why, but I love them a lot. In Singapore whenever I get a chance to see the small fishes, I immediately buy them. This small fish fry I tried last but before week and last week tried Village style Fish Curry with these small fishes and I don't have any words to describe it. Will see that fish curry in my coming post and today lets see the small fish fry preparation. 

You can check all the fish recipes here and some fish fry recipes I have given below 

Masala fish fry

Vanjaram fish fry

Anchovies Fish fry
Andhra style fish fry

Anchovies dry fish fry

Pomfret fry in Kerala Style 
Indian Style Salmon Fish Fry

Small Fish Fry Recipe

Preparation time: 10 min (+ 1hr marination) | Cook Time: 30 min | Serves: 5

Recipe Category: Side dish | Recipe Cuisine: South Indian

Ingredients 

Any small fish - 12 to 15 pieces
Chilli powder - 2 tbsp
Coriander powder - 1 tsp
Cumin powder - 1 tsp
Turmeric powder - 1/4 tsp
Ginger garlic paste - 3 tsp
Corn flour - 1 tbsp
Rice flour -1 tbsp
Lemon Juice - 1tbsp
Salt - as per taste

Method to prepare Small Fish Fry

1. Wash the fishes nicely with salt and turmeric powder nicely. Drain the water. When most of the water got drained, add half the amount of the chilli powder, coriander powder, cumin powder, salt, ginger garlic paste and turmeric and all the lemon juice and mix well. Apply this mixture inside the fishes. Leave it aside for 30 minutes.

2. Add the remaining quantity of the powder and the corn and rice flours and mix well, so that fishes are well coated. Leave it again for another 10 minutes.

3. Now in a fish frying pan, add the oil and when it is hot, slowly drop one fish at a time and start frying them on both the sides, till they become golden brown colour on all the sides. Do fry the fishes in small batches.

4. Once you finished frying the fish, fry some curry leaves in the same oil and add on to the small fish fry before serving. Serve the fish fry with the hot hot fish kuzhambu and white rice. 

Yummy yummy Small Fish Fry Recipe is ready. 

Notes

1. You can prepare this fish fry, with any kind of fishes.
2. Marinating the fish is important as it gives more taste to the fish fry recipe. So try to marinate atleast 30 to 40 minutes.
3. Adding corn flour and rice flour, increases the crispiness of the fish and also can reduce the spiciness, when giving to the kids. If you do not like it, you can just omit it.
4. Adding lemon juice, gives a mild tangy flavor to the fish. If you do not like it, you can very well omit that too. 

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