Simple, practical, and full of everyday flavour, stuffed mirchi bajji recipe | stuffed menasinakai bajji | milagai bajji recipe is a vegetarian south indian snacks made with besan / chickpea flour / gram flour, rice flour / chawal ka atta, and kashmiri red chili powder / lal mirch powder in about 20 minutes. The recipe lays out the ingredients and each cooking step clearly, so you can adjust seasoning, texture, and serving size for your own kitchen.

Recipe Snapshot

  • Prep time: 10 minutes
  • Cook time: 10 minutes
  • Total time: 20 minutes
  • Yield: 4 Serving
  • Category: snacks
  • Cuisine: south indian

Ingredients

for besan batter:

  • 1 cup besan / chickpea flour / gram flour
  • ¼ cup rice flour / chawal ka atta
  • 1 tsp kashmiri red chili powder / lal mirch powder
  • ½ tsp turmeric powder / haldi
  • pinch of asafoetida / hing
  • salt to taste
  • ¼ cup water (or as required to prepare batter)
  • pinch of baking soda / sodium bicarbonate

for stuffing:

  • 2 potatoes (boiled and peeled)
  • 1 green chilli / hari mirch (finely chopped)
  • 1 inch ginger (grated)
  • 2 tbsp coriander leaves (finely chopped)
  • ½ medium sized onion (finely chopped)
  • ¼ tsp turmeric powder / haldi
  • salt to taste
  • ½ tsp kashmiri red chili powder / lal mirch powder
  • ½ tsp jeera / cumin seeds
  • pinch of hing / asafoetida
  • ½ tsp aamchur powder / dry mango powder

other ingredients:

  • 4 large chilli / green bullhorn chillies / bhavnagri mirchi / bajji menasu
  • oil for deep frying

Method

besan batter recipe:

  1. firstly, take besan, rice flour, chili powder, haldi, hing and salt. mix well.
  2. furthermore, add water and make a smooth batter.
  3. also add a pinch of baking soda and mix gently.

stuffing recipe:

  1. firstly take mashed potatoes, green chili, ginger, coriander leaves and onion.
  2. also add haldi, red chili powder, jeera, aamchur, salt and hing.
  3. mix well.

mirchi stuffing recipe:

  1. firstly, slit green chili at the centre and remove seeds.
  2. also stuff the potato stuffing into the chili.
  3. dip the stuffed chili into besan batter, coat and deep fry to golden brown.
  4. finally, serve stuffed potato mirchi bajji / mirapakaya bajji.

Kiyaan Singh’s Kitchen Note

Keep this recipe as a working base: cook once as written, then adjust spice, texture, and serving style for your own table.