Challa Mirapakayalu Recipe

Ingredients:

20 pieces of medium size green chillies
1/2 liter of sour buttermilk.
pinch of turmaric powder
salt to taste.

Method:

Take the sour buttermilk and add salt and turmaric powder and mix well and keep aside.

Wipe all the green chillies with a wet cloth and slit sideways with safty pin till the end. Don't separate and don't remove the stem or seeds inside and drop into the buttermilk. All the chillies should be dipped in buttermilk. Leave 2-3 days but shake everyday ups and down. On the 3rd day morning take all the soaked chillies from buttermilk and dry in hot sun and evening put them back into the buttermilk.Like that daily in the morning take out from the buttermilk and dry in the hot sun and put back into the leftover buttermilk in the evening till all the buttermilk absorbed. By now the green chillies change the color & look brownish (dry leaf color). Challa Mirapakayalu are ready to eat. Put them in an air tight container like vadiyalu. Whenever you want to eat fry in oil like vadiyalu and eat with daal rice, daals cooked with vegetables, sambar or with hot rice itself.