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    Home » Recipes » Curries & Stir Fries

    Published: Mar 9, 2014 · Modified: Dec 19, 2020 by Usha Rao

    Long Green Chilies Curry ~ Mirchi Curry

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    I love mirupakaya koora or green chilies curry. There are many variations of this curry and I already posted one green chilies curry that my mom makes. Today's recipe is slightly different from that. In this recipe onion and tomatoes are ground to paste along with sesame seeds and dry coconut to make the stuffing. Onion stuffing is stuffed into chilies and then cooked to make this curry.

    mirchi ki subzi

    This is my mother-in-law's recipe. She wrote all the recipes she collected over the years in a dairy. This recipe is from that diary. Her recipe doesn't have the quantities for the ingredients, just the required ingredients and the procedure. I added the quantities as per my taste.

     mirchi ki subzi

    I used long green chilies we get in the Indian store, the ones used to make mirchi bajji (fritters). If the Indian green chilies are not available, long hot peppers can be used. I wanted to do this post in January but could not post it. So here it is.

    Stuffed Long Green Chilies

    Source: Mother-in-law's recipe collection
    Serves: 2-3

    Cooking from Cookbook Challenge, Long hot peppers curry, mirupakaya kura, Mirchi Curry, mirchi ki subzi

    Green Chilies Curry ~ Mirchi Curry

    Stuffed long peppers cooked in an onion tomato coconut base.
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    Course: Side Dish
    Cuisine: Telugu Cuisine
    Prep Time: 15 minutes
    Cook Time: 15 minutes
    Servings: 3
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    Author: Usha Rao

    Ingredients

    • 10 Long Green Chilies or approximately 150 grams the ones we get in Indian store and the ones used for mirchi bajji. Long hot peppers can also be used. Check notes
    • ½ cup chopped Onion
    • ½ cup chopped Tomatoes
    • 2 tablespoon chopped Dry Coconut
    • 2 tablespoon roasted Sesame Seeds
    • 1 ½ teaspoon Coriander Powder
    • 1 teaspoon Salt adjust to taste
    • 1 teaspoon Chili Powder adjust to taste
    • ¼ teaspoon Turmeric
    • 2 tablespoon Oil
    • 1 ½ teaspoon Ginger Garlic paste

    Instructions

    • Wash the green chilies, make a slit vertically and remove the seeds using a fork or a spoon. I used my fingers to deseed the chilies but if one has a sensitive skin, please do not use your fingers. Also, please wash your hands immediately after removing the seeds. I didn’t remove all the seeds as we like spicy hot curry. If one’s heat tolerance level is very low, please remove all the seeds.
    • Chop the onions and tomatoes and make a paste. Take it in a bowl and keep it aside.
    • In a spice grinder, grind coconut and sesame seeds to fine powder. Add this powder to the onion tomato paste.
    • Add chili powder, salt, turmeric and coriander powder to the onion paste, and mix well.
    • Steps 2-4 can be done in one step by taking all the ingredients into a wet grinder and making a paste. My wet grinder is small and chose to make the paste and powders separately and then mix everything together.
    • Lightly stuff each chili with the stuffing, about ½ – 1 ½ tsp. of filling per chili, depending on the length of the chili. I had some very long chilies and some medium length chilies. After stuffing the chilies, cut each chili into two pieces. This cutting the chilies into two pieces is not a must but I did it as the chilies were very long. You will have some leftover stuffing and keep it aside.
    • Heat oil in a non-stick pan and add the remaining onion stuffing, ginger garlic paste, and sauté for 1 – 2 minutes. You need not fry the onion for too long.
    • Add the stuffed chilies and mix well to coat the onion paste.
    • Cover and cook on medium heat for 2- 3 minutes. By this time my onion stuffing was burning so I reduce the flame to medium low and cooked it covered for another 4-5 minutes, stirring it in between. It is important to stir it to evenly cook the chilies and also for evenly roasting the onion stuffing.
    • Remove the cover. By now the chilies and onion paste will be nicely roasted. In fact, the onion paste will be kind of dry and crumbly. Reduce the flame to low, add ¼ cup of water and mix well. Increase the flame back to medium low and cook for 3-4 for minutes or until required consistency of the curry is reach. I wanted the curry to be dry but not too dry either. If one wants gravy like consistency, add more water. I like the chili curry dry.
    • Serve it with rice.

    Notes

    • Green Chilies – Pick thick/fat chilies as it would be easy to remove the seeds and stuff it. Also depending one one’s heat tolerance level, remove the seeds. I usually keep some seeds as we like it hot.
    • Long green chilies can be substituted with long hot peppers that we get in American store. We also get these in Indian stores too. I prefer green chilies to long hot peppers. Hot peppers are more fibrous and have thick skin. In the above recipe, green chilies can be substituted with 6-7 long hot peppers. Also, it needs to be cooked a little longer. After cooking it for 2-3 minutes, add water, cover and then cook it until done.
    • Roasted gram ~ daliya ~ putnalu can also be added to make the stuffing. You can add about 2-3 tsp. putnalu to and make a powder along with the sesame seeds and coconut.
    • Gram flour or roasted gram (daliya or putnalu) powder can be substituted with sesame seeds. However, I personally like sesame seeds.
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    Comments

    1. anu says

      November 23, 2020 at 10:47 am

      Hi, the recipe looks amazing. However, the spelling for 'diary' is wrong.

      Reply
      • Usha Rao says

        December 21, 2020 at 10:00 am

        Oops! Thank you for pointing out. Fixed it.

        Reply
    2. Srivalli says

      July 03, 2014 at 2:36 am

      Wow usha, those stuffed chillies look so inviting..My MIL makes a different filling, yours sound so good..will surely make it sometime..

      Reply
    3. Mireille says

      March 15, 2014 at 1:50 am

      that stuffing looks awesome

      Reply
    4. Pavani says

      March 12, 2014 at 10:33 pm

      What a yummy looking stuffed mirchi curry. You are so lucky to have handwritten book from your MIL, it sure is a treasure to hold on to.

      Reply
    5. Priya Srinivasan says

      March 11, 2014 at 8:22 am

      Looks yum n the stuffing is somewhat similar to bhagara bainghan na!

      Reply
    6. Arthy Shama says

      March 11, 2014 at 5:02 am

      Green chilly curry, looks tempting, especially for an spice-lover like me 🙂

      Reply
    7. manjula bharath says

      March 10, 2014 at 11:40 am

      wow very delicious and yummy mirchi curry 🙂 My masi used to make them missing them , tempting curry dear 🙂

      Reply
    8. Priya says

      March 10, 2014 at 4:09 am

      Curry looks very delicious, guess its wont be much hot na, love that stuffing part.

      Reply
      • MySpicyKitchen says

        March 10, 2014 at 9:15 am

        Priya, if you remove all the seeds it from the chilies, it won't be hot.

        Reply

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