Green Chilli Fritters With Gram Flour (Mirsange Bajo Recipe)

Big green chillies deep fried with a flavourful gram flour batter for tea time yumminess. Do these pakora/pakodas/bondas require an intro? I make these chilli fritters - mirsange bajo 2 ways. Here’s one way below, another way is using rice batter.

Ingredients:

4 big green chillies
Salt to taste
1 Lemon

Oil for deep frying

To make batter:
1/2 cup gram flour
1/4 teaspoon red chilli powder
1/4 teaspoon asafoetida powder
Salt to taste

Serves: 2-3
Prep time: 8-10 minutes
Cooking time: 8-10 minutes

Preparation Method:

1. Wash the green chillies, I prefer to chop off its stem.
2. Split them into 2 halves, if they’re thick then slit the half into 2 more pieces. Like this below.

3. Chop them into sizes you would like to enjoy. Long, short, thin, thick your choice.

5. Add salt, lemon juice to the pieces, toss them around.
6. Allow them to sit for 3 minutes.
7. During this time they take up salt & lemon helps mellow down their spice if they’re too spicy.
8. While they are set aside, make batter.
9. In a bowl of gram flour, add red chilli powder, asafoetida powder, and salt, mix well.
10. Using water little by little make a medium thick consistency batter. Add water little by little when required.
11. If the batter’s too thin & watery, it’ll drip off the chillies.
13. Get oil rolling hot. Then set it to medium heat to ensure uniform cooking both outside & on the inside.
14. Dip chilli pieces into the batter to uniformly coat them with it & deep fry them in rolling hot oil.
15. Make sure they cook uniformly on all sides by tossing them around in the oil.
16. Enjoy them while they're hot.

P.S: If the oil’s on low it’ll make them absorb in extra oil, if it’s on high throughout you may not have great bajos too, they'll get hard rather than just crispy.

Other vegetable bajos (fritters) you can make similarly:

Alva maddi (Colocasia tuber) phodi/bajo

Phagla (Cantola) bajo/phodi

Karathe (Bitter gourd) bajo/phodi

Kirla (Pickled bamboo shoots) bajo/phodi

Kanga (Sweet Potato) phodi/bajo

Kadgi (Raw jackfruit) phodi/bajo

Batate (Potato) bajo/phodi

Jeev kadgi (Bread fruit) pho di/bajo

Capsicum bajo/phodi

Cauliflower bajo/phodi

Kele (Raw banana) bajo/phodi