Iranian recipe for deep fried, stuffed chilies?

April 22, 2007 5:59 AM

Help me discover this stuffed green chillies recipe. While in India I read about a dish of stuffed green chillies, but never, ever managed to trace it or even to find out it's name. This is what I know about this dish: *It is Iranian, and can be bought from Iranian coffee shops in Hyderabad. *The green chilies are cleaned of their seeds and stuffed with a paste that includes cardamom and other spices. *The stuffed chilies are deep fried in oil. *The result is sublime. I would like to know the name of this dish, and if possible a recipe. Thank you chili lovers wherever you are.
posted by slimeline to food & drink (6 comments total)

Mirch Ka Salan
posted by agent99 at 6:58 AM on April 22, 2007

(there are LOTS of recipes online, all slightly different)
posted by agent99 at 7:00 AM on April 22, 2007

agent99, thanks for that, but this recipe is chilies in gravy. The one I have in mind the chilies are stuffed and then deep fried. They are served dry. Is this a variation on Mirch ka Salan or another thing altogether?
posted by slimeline at 7:29 AM on April 22, 2007

Googling "green chilis" stuffed fry turned up this page with several Indian stuffed pepper recipes. The one called Mirchi Vada sounds the closest to what you describe.
posted by Partial Law at 7:44 AM on April 22, 2007

Sorry about that; another possibility might be
Bhari Simla Mirch which are gravy-free.
posted by agent99 at 7:45 AM on April 22, 2007

Here's one I found called Molagai Bajji (I've had this in south India over a decade ago).

Madras Fried Chile Fritters (Molagai Bajii) (scroll half-way down the page)
posted by special-k at 10:35 PM on April 22, 2007